I saw Star Wars: The Clone Wars a couple of weeks ago. At the time I thought, meh, it was all right, there were things I liked and things I didn't. I held off on posting a review, and since then I've come to realize that that my reaction was a pretty mild one in the grand scale of things. Clone Wars has inspired some truly epic diatribes over on Ain't It Cool and elsewhere.

Yes, in all truthfulness, it is not a very good movie. The voice-over at the beginning sounds like Regis Philbin. The plot about Jabba's son is just beneath contempt. (I mean, even as a little kid I could tell when I was being pandered to. So who is that stuff for?) Jabba's gay English-speaking uncle is really unfunny. The banter between Anakin and his sassy new padawan is sitcommy and lame. (If it were a 70s TV show they would have called this movie Sky Guy and S.N.I.P.S.) I can remember when Star Wars was exciting and dark and actually meant something. It's one of the Great Cultural Conundrums of our time that Lucas and co. have chosen to opt out of that.

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These three minutes were deleted from Iron Man, presumably because after they spent $10 million filming them they realized that nothing happened in them:

In other movie news, Quentin Tarantino has apparently cast Samm Levine -- Neal Schweiber from Freaks and Geeks -- in his WWII flick Inglorious Bastards. This is just amazing.

Also amazing -- bad-amazing -- is that MTV is remaking Rocky Horror.