It might be good if Lucas didnt have anything to do with writing it. The last three movies were pretty bad and I am a Big Star Wars fan!

I'm not very big on Star Wars so I can pass on
this easily. Now, give me an animated Indiana
Jones and I might have to DVR it.

I really like the stylised design, even if the cartoon network show's design was better. The story thou...sounds a little forced in to the rest of the story.

I mean, forced in between the other star wars movies

jesus! that looks better than all 3 prequels. anyone know what other stars returned to do voice work?

I'm a Star Wars fan, this kind of looks like it's balancing on "the see-saw of opportunity" it could be totally cool, it could blow as much as the prequels. We'll see.

meh.

Why do they keep focusing on the clone wars? It's so absurdly boring because we all know the eventual outcome. They should be making movies about the stuff that occurs after Jedi.

This should effing rock!

I like the animation and the action sequences look good, but
I don't know about the story. Rescuing Jabba's son? Um. What
would be the point of kidnapping him in the first place and the
Jedi getting involved? I'll have to wait to see reasons
and how it unfolds before I scream, "That's dumb."

Rescuing Jabba's son? Could we be more weak and contrived with our, "Who the f' cares about plot, we need to work more characters people know into this!"? This has three major things working against it;

1) It will pale in comparison to the Cartoon Network's Clone Wars series in writing and execution of story.

2) The art style looks like something South Korea was producing in the early 90's and long since surpassed. Unique isn't cool if it looks like a cut scene from a video game. Has no one at Lucas Films seen what can be done with animation these days? The work done with combination of 2-D & 3-D on Ghost in the Shell 2 and Appleseed, looks like someone has really put some effort into making a beautiful film. This looks like a unique art style for the sake of quick turn around from idea to screen.

3) George Lucas wrote the story for it.... well maybe that does explain the kidnapped Hut angle.

Poor us.

"Prepare to see Star Wars like you've never seen it before"

I think we've all seen the completely CGI first 3 movies, this is no different?

I for one, think George should make a CGI movie of Shadows of The Empire. But alas, he's stuck on the prequels :(

OH NO! George Lucas has something to do with the franchise he created!

*cuts wrists*

Yeah, the prequels weren't as good as they could have been, but they weren't the absolute travesty that most people make it out to seem. There were some really cool moments in the prequels and people tend to remember only teh bullshit. Why can't we just enjoy the fact that we're getting a new Star Wars movie that looks damn cool?

I think it looks awesome.... and I will see it many many times in the theater.

AshDraven's #2 articulates a lot of what I was thinking. I don't know what the budget on something like Ex Machina or Wonderful Days (Sky Blue) was, but I'd much rather see a Star Wars story with a similar approach. The character scenes in this trailer remind me of cut scenes from a video game. It's just not an appealing style for me.

The action scenes (combined with the classic SFX) are much better. It strikes me that the light saber may be the most visual device (prop) ever invented.

Ultimately, nothing really matters when you have a property with the Star Wars name attached. People watch/buy/love so they can love it or hate it. It's a fool proof business model..

Let me start by saying that I am a bigger fan of traditional animation, and find it disheartening that everything nowadays has to be CGI. I am not saying that the animation looks bad, I mean it is Lucas Films, but the fact that they are stealing the style from the previous traditionally animated clone wars series on Cartoon Network, it just seems a little forced. I am a fan of Genndy Tartakovsky and feel it is somewhat disrespectful that they took his 2-dimensional art style and haphazardly placed it in a 3-dimensional universe. Add on the fact that they add textures to the characters that make them look a little creepy, and the horrible lip-syncing done on Yoda, I just am not impressed.

The only returning voice is C-3PO all others are recast un like the 2d shorts. I think grives also and yoda.

Its all a lead up to parts 7 8 and 9... Lucas is just biding his time for they day when we dont mind seeing a digital Han Solo, Luke, and Leia so he can go back and ruin that series too. He's expressed a desire to do so already but his plans have largly been suppressed because he screwed up the prequels so badly.

Mark my words just before we reach middle age episode 7 will be released...
Anyway, this movie has a ton of shit to answer for. Eps 1 through 3 all blew massively on an interstellar level as we all know and this animated series can't afford to be the least bit dry, slow, hollow, and mis-centered as those films. Im hoping since Lucas isnt directly fondling everything that goes on screen and writing bland shit shit on some yellow pad that these at the very least will not blow swinging bantha cock.

I think the original Clone Wars cartoon was seriously awesome.

"shame on you if you fool me once, shame on me if you fool me twice, really shame on you if you fool me third time... now you want a 4th chance????"

I liked what I saw and will definitely see this in the theater and catch the shows on TV. I'm a huge SW fan, so it's hard for me to stay away from anything associated with it. Even if GL makes the characters talk like crap.

Only thing is that I'm not really interested in hearing more about the Clone Wars. Tell me about the days when Yoda was running around 900 years past, or take me to the times of the Solo jedi and animate the Legacy stories...or maybe, just maybe, the Thrawn trilogy. I can dream I suppose.

I'm a big StarWars fan. I mean, I even like the prequels a lot. But this shouldn't have been made. I don't know why Lucas continues to overwork this franchise. He really needs to move on and do other projects. Those other projects don't include the Indiana Jones. I won't be seeing this in theaters I'll download on the net.

I'm with the Skeptics on this one. From a strictly film point of view, that trailer was kinda weak. Didn't really draw you in, started really slow and never really gave you a great sense of what the crap was going on except some confused story about the Hutt clan and Jabba's son.

And honestly, it makes me laugh because some of those scenes really looked like the prequels without the green screened in Actors. I think visually it will benefit from not forcing the two together and giving the cgi some art look to it.

Last thing, Yoda's speech at the beginning Sounded really odd.

"It will pale in comparison to the Cartoon Network’s Clone Wars series in writing and execution of story."

So, you've already seen it and can judge both? But you're saying "will" as if it hasn't happened yet. So maybe you haven't seen it. But wait, if you say it WILL pale in comparison, then that means you have already made up your mind. Way to give a movie a chance.

@Charles

I'm also one of the few who actually liked.. No, okay..I'll admit it.. I LOVED the prequels. Sure they had their problems, ( my main gripe is Lucas had a built in audience of millions.....who deserved a 2 hour+ film) but I loved every second of them while I watched them. I also admit to being one of the few...I think theres 3 of us. Who had no problem with Jar Jar...and thought he was hilarious.

But when the clone wars cartoons came out. I took a step back and said " Oh my fucking GOD! This is how the prequels should have been from the start." Episode ONE: the clone wars. The way they establish how awesome The Jedi Powers are.. ie: the Mace Windu episode.

So I gotta disagree with you Charles... These cartoons are necessary because they are the films we all wanted the prequels to be. ( just that scene in the trailer of the Jedi at the front of that AT AT deflecting laser blasts with their light saber... thats fucking bad ass man@!... That's the Star Wars film I've been wanting to see for 20 years.) It will be easier to ignore Lucas's Prequels if we have a bad ass stock of flicks that cover all the bases the way the cartoons do.

GIVE ME A KNIGHTS OF THE OLD REPUBLIC MOVIE!!!!

Seriously, there's so much more interesting stories that could have been told but they insist on retreading over the same damn star wars time period.

Its worth going to just for the fact that few films are as fun to go see opening day as a Star Wars film. Where you know everyone in line is as huge a geek/dork/spaz/loser as you are.

All the prequels opening nights were a blast... Let's face it...How many films do you go to where everyone in the theater is pumped as you are to see it?

Pay the ticket.... Its a geek ride.

They don't come around as often as we think.

It'll be fun.... seeing all the hardcore geeks in their cos-play jedi outfits battling each other in the parking lot with light sabers. The cheers at the Lucas film logo on the screen... The chills you get when you hear the star wars theme begin....

I cant wait. :)

( If anyone here is from Southern Ontario, Canada..
... We're going to the meadowlands theater in Ancaster to see it.. Click my name and send us a flickr mail if you want to meet up. )

To krackajap. Do you remember that these movies are called "star wars", of course they need to be set in the period where the Skywalkers lived, thats the whole point of the story.

Hector,

There is more to Star Wars that just that tiny period of time. There are much more interesting stories they could tell in the Star Wars Universe than just the Clone Wars period over and over again.

Love how they nail the wooden like nature of Anakin perfectly... it is Hayden Christensen but in an animated form.

Dooku looked pretty cool. I'll definitely download it when the R5 torrent appears.

All I'm saying is if they can get some droid v. jedi action in there that was as good as clone wars, then this should be worth watching.

If I never see another lightsabre duel, I'll die a happy man.

honestly, before the trailer I didn't have nearly as much interest in this as the live action series. While that still holds true, I'm crazy exited now.

awful trailer. The deepest root of desire and magical affection in my heart, however. 2 horrendous prequels, 1 that to me felt like a Star Wars film, but not a great one. Folks, Lucas isn't leaving his bread winner behind. Give me/us/someone a chance to help him make 7-9, and Grand Admiral Thrawn, Mara Jade, or the New Jedi Order will give you pause to reconsider everything that has been spewed in such a negative fashion before, including by me. There are great stories worth telling in this Universe, but Lucas has lost his audience.

This story surrounds the most vilified elements of Lucas' storytelling thus far; he's setting himself up for failure, and if it doesn't suck, which is very possible still, he'll be able to say "See, I still got it, gobble gobble". Personally, the Hutt idea is really good to me; that gang is responsible, in many ways, for some of the more defining moments in the Saga thus far, and is a GREAT offset for the negativity surrounding the other familiar characters. Jabba's Dancers, Jabba's Dancers. Going to Nal Hutta: that'll be fucking cool if it happens, although not enough redemption for turning Kashyyk into Endor. Animated? Been there, at least there's no green screen and making good actors look like has beens.

It doesn't steal Tartakosvky's Animation style, I will disagree on that wholeheartedly. Much richer and detail attentive compared to the TV series. Reminiscent, sure; it's got the same name, so there's some brand awareness. Much improved stylistically. Not saying I don't dig the original but Samurai Jack blew the Clone Wars back to another kind of feudal bantha farm in my book.

I hope it's ok. We still have 100 episodes of television pending to dread/fret/become more apathetic over. No more apologies

Stick to making console games! As per usual Lucas leaves me limp. I laugh everytime I think of him sitting back in his chair in the 80's spouting off like, " special effects without a story is a pretty boring thing". Well you know what? Starwars is a pretty boring thing. Sure it was great to geek out on as a teen, but forever tarnished by Bam, Wiz, Bang & Pinochio's seduction to the dark side. BTW, EP. 4 was on spike last night. How do you start there and go in that direction? TWO WORDS. Crass overmarketing.

I might be the only one who is a big enough star wars fan, because i am really looking forward to this. And about the prequels, Episode 1 was good, Episode 2 was better and Episode 3 was awesome!! I really cant wait to watch this movie!

-The Dark Side will conquer all-

Why do people diss star wars so much? If you don't f'in like it then GTFA (Go the fuck away)

after the absolute betrayal that was indiana jones and the kingdom of the crystal skull you'd think that someone would imprison george "money hungry" lucas from tampering with his once brilliant franchises to earn a quick buck. jabba the hutt's son? mace windu's brother from another mother? watto's neice twice removed? what a totally unimaginative load of piffle. it's just going to be another exercise in milking more money from a once great idea because HE CANNOT COME UP WITH ANYTHING NEW! at the expense of ruining all that we once held dear. (example: darth vader built c3p0??!! yoda knew chewbacca??!!! boba fett is australian??!!! and the list goes on...). i dread to think what nasty little surprises george "the cherished childhood memory killer" lucas has in store in the clone wars. what? mace windu had an affair with padme and she secretly gave birth to lando calrissian?

with such a large star wars universe at his disposal george "show me the money" lucas has refused to explore it in his narrow minded incompetence. ANOTHER BLOODY STAR WARS FILM ON TATTOOINE?! probably the most boring planet in the system. a freudian insight into lucas' mind if ever there was one.

don't even get me started on the potential merchandising that this film will create (probably the whole purpose behind it). i mean, you can buy figures for the star wars unleashed game months BEFORE it is even released. and why not make another 12 different clone trooper figures while you're at it (i personally own over 20 different types, many with no differences but different color markings).

"I HAVE A BAD FEELING ABOUT THIS"

The problem with you people is that you expect the world, when all you're going to get is "Star Wars." The prequels were great films, and in alot of ways, they surpassed the originals. Alot of people diss it just because the new ones were different than the older ones.

Who are you guys to say that Lucas ruined his franchise? It's his franchise! He modifies it the way he sees fit. Try making something that you guys love and have people telling you you screwed your own work up. Obviously, you make it the way you want it, just as Lucas made Star Wars the way he wanted it. If you're not happy with it, then you expect the world. It infuriates me to see how ungrateful people are. These are just movies!!!! They are made for entertainment! Just sit back, enjoy life and stop complaining about everything. You just might be able to realize its a movie made for entertainment.

i am a huge star war fan, i loved every movie including the prequels, (people hate entirely too much on those movies) i'm really excited to see this new one..

Yeah i hope this will b good, i was a bit dissed that they didnt make it on the Jedi b4 the clone wars and stuff... but well c.

Like how yoda trained Dukoo and stuff like that =`)

I actually spoke with Lucas about all this and he really has no interest in doing sequels and that fans would have to do with the books but then he said he was done with the series after "Jedi" before "Howard the Duck". If he re-visits it will be a live action television series between the two trilogies and we talked about a perhaps trilogy set along after the deaths of Luke, Han, Leia and their children. When I talked to him he really didn't want to talk much about it at all and I kind of felt dumb asking him. He's not happy with all the books either.

I am extremely glad that I am around to see the days when new Jedi stories will be on the BIG and little screen. There are some other stories that I would love to see played out more but I am one of many fans that love anything Lucas puts out that I can see. These stories are BIGGER than Lucas and me.......these are our stories.......

Everytime I see one played out on the screen I remember back when I played out my own storylines in my room with all my action figures......

This is great....

Been better to animate what occurs between episodes 3 and 4.

Looks like Lucas took a big digital shit and now he wants us all to come into the bathroom to see what he made.

ITS GONNA BE FUCKING AMAZING I CANT WAIT

I LOVE ALL THE STARWARS MOVES AND CANT WAIT TO SEE A STORY OR THE CLONE WARS COME ON EVERY ONE GET EXCITED

I keep seeing the same ad where the girl claims shes not to young to train yet in Ep1 they say Anakin is to old to train. Someone didn't research past movies to well.