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The visual language of the movie is perplexing and small-minded (the first half-hour or so is confusing as hell), and the starship battles lack clear geography and propulsion. If Palpatine was brought back from the dead once, who’s to say he won’t be again? Why even try killing him again? And if we know Kylo’s not going to kill Rey, what reason is there to be excited when they’re bashing their lightsabers against one another?īut beyond a bad story and non-existent character arcs, Rise of Skywalker is also a drag from a cinematic standpoint. The piss-poor story and pacing removes all emotional attachment to these characters, and the film’s loose definition of the word “death” renders all stakes meaningless. Even beyond that, Finn doesn’t get a story arc beyond saying “Where’s Rey?’ over and over again, and Poe’s character development from The Last Jedi vanishes in favor of - you guessed it - more fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants rogue nonsense. By bringing the Big Bad from the original trilogy back to life, he sucks so much exposition and story out of what, again, should have been a finale focused on a mission to save Kylo Ren from himself. The root of the movie’s problems as it relates to Rey and Kylo Ren is Palpatine. What should have been an emotionally charged battle for Kylo Ren’s soul becomes a treasure hunt that gets bogged down in answers to lore-driven questions that didn’t need answering, and the “truth” of Rey’s parents sidetracks this trilogy’s hero for almost the entirety of the film as she continuously says “peace out” to her loyal companions in favor of risking her life (and theirs) to chase… something? Does it even matter what? And alongside her, Kylo Ren’s redemption arc gets shortchanged in the most frustrating of fashions as he keeps chasing Rey for… other reasons? The storytelling is muddled to the point of incomprehension, and the characters make decisions motivated by nothing more than attempting to move the plot along or set up/open another mystery box tied to mythology that ultimately doesn’t really matter. It’s almost impressive how aggressively uninteresting Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is. Let's just keep the farts in the past though, shall we?
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At this point, however, The Clone Wars is arguably most interesting because it was directed by Dave Filoni, which means it's possible even more of these characters will make it to the Disney+ Star Wars TV universe. There's zero weight to the actions of these characters, and this feels more like a diversion for these characters than a story that serves any major purpose. And no, The Clone Wars didn't have the major negative impact on the entire franchise that the next entry does, but the complete mundanity of this exercise is somehow even worse. It's a wonder The Clone Wars was so popular considering how odd and charmless this oddity is. In Star Wars ' only animated feature, Anakin Skywalker (voiced by Matt Lanter ) and his new Padawan apprentice Ahsoka Tano ( Ashley Eckstein ) have to bring Jabba the Hutt's constantly farting son back to him.
The Star Wars: The Clone Wars film is arguably the strangest theatrically released Star Wars project so far, acting as a pilot episode for the vastly superior Clone Wars TV series.
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