STAR WARS: The Clone Wars overstretches a simple linear plot, which would fit snugly into a 30-minute TV episode, relying on technical wizardry to paper over the myriad cracks in the screenplay. Obi-Wan Kenobi visits Jabba the Hutt to broker a deal with the Galactic Empire. The gargantuan leader grants Obi-Wan and his comrades one planetary rotation to rescue his beloved son Rotta and return him to Tatooine.

Anakin Skywalker and young padawan Ahsoka Tano lead the charge to the planet Teth, where they find a whole lot of trouble.

Since we already know the full narrative arc of George Lucas’s sprawling opus, there’s no dramatic tension whatsoever.