Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #308 in DVD
• Released on: 2009-11-16
• Rating: Parental Guidance
• Formats: Box set, PAL
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, French
• Number of discs: 4
• Running time: 475 minutes

DVD Description
Experience the full force Of season one... Executive Producer George Lucas and Lucasfilm Animation present Star Wars : The Clone Wars The Complete Season One. As war rages through the galaxy, the heroic Jedi, including Yoda, Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi and newcomer Ahsoka Tano, fight to maintain order and restore peace. Meanwhile, the Separatists, led by Count Dooku, his assassin Asajj Ventress and the evil General Grievous, plot to defeat the Republic and gain control. Each episode takes you deeper into the universe, introducing new characters and exploring new planets along the way. With groundbreaking computer-generated animation and epic storytelling, this is a Star Wars adventure like never

Special Features
• 22 action-packed episodes including 7 Director’s Cut episodes
• 22 Behind-the-Scenes Featurettes with Director and Crew Interviews
• Exclusive 68-page Production Journal with Original Sketches and Artist Notes
• Sneak Peek at Season 2

Synopsis
STAR WARS - THE CLONE WARS combines dynamic, stylised animation with action-driven storylines as it explores new terrain in the already vast Star Wars universe. Debuting on the Cartoon Network in 2008, the show takes place during the embattled era of the Clone Wars (largely an off-screen presence in the theatrical films), following young Anakin Skywalker, C-3PO, and Yoda through stormy adventures and galactic battles. This collection of episodes pits the syntactically challenged Jedi Master against the deadly assassin Asajj Ventress, while Anakin and Obi-Wan Kenobi try to steer a dreaded warship off course. The show shouldn't be confused with the 2003 animated series directed by Genndy Tartakovsky.

Customer Reviews

This is the complete series 1 and it's excellent
This box-set contains all 22 episodes in series 1 of 'The Clone Wars'. I really enjoyed watching these CGI/animated stories and kind of wished aspects of them were included in the prequel movie trilogy. We get to see many different new planets and races and some awesome space and land battles with Anakin more vividly shown as the "powerful Jedi" whom Yoda speaks of to Luke in that scene in 'The Empire Strikes Back'.

This series is very different to the 2003 cartoon series made by Genndy Tartakovsky, in which the action was simply relentless and the force powers beyond comprehension. Here, the action scenes (and force powers) are more in sync with the movies except the focus is purely on the events of the clone wars.

It should have been released a bit sooner instead of the 4 episode disc that has been available for some time (I would strongly recommend against buying that). An obvious money-grabbing tactic by Lucasfilm but I can't imagine many people would settle for 4 episodes only.

Anyway, most of the series follows the two heroic Jedi knights, Anakin Skywalker and Obi-wan Kenobi, though a few episodes do feature other characters such as Yoda (episode 1), Padme and the much-maligned Jar Jar (episode 8), Ahsoka Tano (episode 9) and Mace Windu (episode 21). Each episode is about 20 minutes long and titled as follows:

1. Ambush
2. Rising Malevolence
3. Shadow of Malevolence
4. Destroy Malevolence
5. Rookies
6. Downfall of a Droid
7. Duel of the Droids
8. Bombad Jedi
9. Cloak of Darkness
10. Lair of Grievous
11. Dooku Captured
12. The Gungan General
13. Jedi Crash
14. Defenders of Peace
15. Trespass
16. The Hidden Enemy
17. Blue Shadow Virus
18. Mystery of a Thousand Moons
19. Storm Over Ryloth
20. Innocents of Ryloth
21. Liberty on Ryloth
22. Hostage Crisis

My kids and I loved watching this and we cannot wait for the second series.

Highly recommended!
I had a few doubts about the Clone Wars, I did enjoy the film but was hoping the series wouldnt be dumbed down for kids. I dont think it was at all, a few early episodes weren't great but then it really found its rhythm and every episode was superb.

You get to see/learn a lot about other characters, the animation is superb, a lot of action, a great series.

Only bad thing was the way it was shown in the UK on Sky Movies, complete con as its not a movie, just Sky's way of getting kids moaning at their parents to get the movie channel ! Should be on Sky 1 instead.

As the reviewer above said dont bother getting the DVD's with a measely 4 episodes on each one, this box set looks much better and better priced. Looking forward to Season 2 which starts in the US on Friday 2nd.

Excellent series !

Fantastic
If you love the Star Wars prequels then your going to love this box set of season 1 of "Star War The Clone Wars". If you look close at the style of art work thats gone into the making of this series then you can see that, at least in my opinion, this is a definite homage to the original Star Wars artist Ralph McQuarrie. Beautiful art work, fantastic sounds, great stories.
It is PG rated and some of the directors cuts of certain episodes might be just a little bit too much for the very young.
Before you buy this though go for the pilot movie of "Star Wars The Clone Wars". Then you`ll be able to watch it all in the correct order. Right now I can`t wait for season 2.