Star Wars fans there has been alot of animated shows set in the Star Wars with some of them being fairly well known. However there was one show that flew under alot of our noses mostly due to the fact that it's episodes didn't run for the standerd twenty two minuets and sadly due to the fact that this show came out seventeen years ago it's largely been forgotten about despite the fact that a few of the shows characters have not only appeared in other animated Star Wars media but with one of them being a main villain in Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith and so join me as I review volume one of "Star Wars: Clone Wars" enjoy.
The plot of this volume is Obi-Wan Kenobi leads an assault on the planet Muunilinst home of benefactors of the Separatists meanwhile Anakin who is leading the charge from in space encounters a sith like no other. Plot wise i'd say that this volume is honestly really good and while alot of the story isn't told in dialog it's very easy to pick up what the plot is because of how good the visual storytelling is and it helps that the plot is honestly so freaking good that it could have very easily have been the plot for it's own Star Wars live action feature film that's how good the plot of this volume is in my very humble opinion.
Now then just for the sake of my own sanity i'm not going to be listing every single actor who's in this volume because if I did that then i'd be here until at least Christmas Day 2021. As such starring in this volume is Mat Lucas as Anakin Skywalker , James Arnold Taylor as Obi-Wan Kenobi , Tom Kane as Yoda , Anthony Daniels as C-3PO , Corey Burton as Count Dooku and San Hill and Grey Griffin as Asajj Ventress and Padmé Amidala.
In terms of what I thought about the acting in the volume is honestly really freaking good which is shocking since like I said there's not that much dialog in this volume. Considering that there's not alot of dialog in this volume the acting is so freaking (yes I know I just said) all of the actors in in this volume give truly good performances s much so that some of them would reprise their roles in not only The Clone Wars but also Star Wars Rebels as well.
Doing the animation for this volume and i'm assuming volume two is Rough Draft Korea who are perhaps most well known for doing the animation for The Simpsons. Thee animation in this film is so freaking good I honestly had no idea what to expect from this volume since I only watched one maybe two episodes back when the show was first airing and so I was honestly blown away by how good the animation like the animation seen in this volume could have been put in a movie and I wouldn't tell the difference because that's how good the animation in this volume is in my opinion.
Now this is something that I honestly didn't know and that's the fact that the characters of General Grievous (who in this volume is played by John DiMaggio) and Asajj Ventress (played by the super talented Grey Griffin) started out on this show. I honestly assumed that Asajj Ventress started out on The Clone Wars just because that's the first thing I saw that character in ad I assumed that General Grievous first appeared in Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith because once again that was the first thing that i'd seen that character in and so it was honestly shocking to me to see that they first appeared on this little known show.
However that goes to show you how good George Lucas is at world building and interconnectivity since you have a character like General Grievous starting life on this show and then all throughout this show and The Clone Wars we get to see more of the character and then in Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith we see his death. The same thing can also be said for Asajj Ventress since this show is basically her origin and over the course of not only this show but all of the other Star Wars media that she's in we get to see her grow as a character it's a shame that the Kathleen Kennedy doesn't take this same approach by having characters from TV shows appear in the movies since it's a great way to expand upon the world of Star Wars and expand your story telling because then you'll have people wanting to make stories about the character and at the end of the day that is always going to be a good thing.
One of the things that I wasn't expecting this volume to deal with was Anakin's anger since we all know that anger is a path to the dark side I had just assumed that the show wouldn't address it because this show is made for little kids and with little kids in mind. However not only do they address Anakin's anger they also have an entire episode dedicated to it and show him feeling some form of remorse at the end of the episode that really is above and beyond what they could have done and to me it shows that this show's creator , writer and director Genndy Tartakovsky is a true Star Wars fan because only a true fan of Star Wars would include something like having an episode dealing with Anakin's anger and have him show remorse for his actions in not only this episode but the entire first volume.
Now there is one thing that I didn't like with this volume and that's the fact that the volumes total running time is one hour and six minuets and forty two seconds. I say that this is an issue because all of the episodes start to feel the same and because of that this volume can feel boring at times but sadly this is what you get when you edit what was meant to be seen as individual episodes into a one hour and six minuet and forty two second compilation film.
Now then since this is an action show that means that I have to talk about the action that's in this volume. In all honesty the action in this volume is alot better then what I thought that it would have been , I was honestly expecting the action in this show to be pretty bad but no the action was honestly really entertaining and not only that the action was honestly pretty creative and honestly brutal since you see the characters actually struggle to beat their enemy which is honestly something that I don't think we've seen in Star Wars before but there's a chance that I could be wrong tho.
Overall while volume one only has the shows first two seasons those two seasons are honestly worth watching because of how good they are. Like I said in this review this volume isn't perfect and I do expect this issue to pop up in volume two but at the same time this was alot of fun to watch as such this volume gets a 9.5 out of 10 from me and as for where I got the images that I used in this review from well I got them from Amazon UK and the official Star Wars fandom wiki page which is called Wookieepedia and the due to the fact that the overall majority of the images that I used in this review came from the official Star Wars fandom wiki page I have no choice but t recommend that you use the official Star Wars fandom wiki page just due to the fact that the images on the official Star Wars fandom wiki page are honestly really high quality.