I wish I could come on and post a glowing review of Clone Wars, but as I suspected, there were a lot of flaws.

The biggest disappointment to me was that, because they were establishing this as a sort of pilot for the television program, they did away with the traditional Star Wars opening.  The opening was really horrible and cheap, and I was highly disappointed.  I can appreciate that they were worried that younger kids wouldn't be able to read the crawl at the beginning, but kids have gotten into Star Wars for years w/out being able to read the words at the beginning.  They could leave off the lame-ass narration until the actual television series, as far as I'm concerned.

The second biggest disappointment to me was what I like to call the Brother Bear Syndrome.  This is where a film wants to speak to "today's youth", so they decide that they can conveniently ignore how a particular society would work, and instead make a bunch of characters sound like typical selfish, whining sit-com brats, rather than realistically portray the culture.  In Brother Bear, the main character acted like a spoiled brat would in modern society, not as a child actually raised in a traditional Native American culture would react.  (Biggest example:  When he finds out that his totem is a Bear, he starts whining that it's not cool.  In a traditional NA society, it never would have been looked down to have a bear as a totem...and one could even argue--especially if you happen to be a Chicago sports fan--that bears are pretty damn cool, even today)

In the Clone Wars, there is a subplot that involves a Paduwan.  I won't 'spoil' any of the details, but all I can say is that if that's the way Yoda's been teaching all the Younglings back at the Temple, then perhaps Anakin did us ALL a favor by destroying it in the last (third?) movie.

On the positive side, the acting was more lifelike than anything Lucas got for any of the most recent movies (and yes, that comment is tongue-in-cheek, although there is some truth to it as well).  The fight scenes were mostly fun, and the plot was more cohesive than any of the most recent prequels. 

Best moment:  Being in a theater full of fathers and their sons, and watching tons of kids jump up and go wild with happiness when the Indiana Jones theme was being played over the sound system before the show started.  It's not just my little geek who gets into that music!