{"id":5508,"date":"2012-10-25T23:48:41","date_gmt":"2012-10-26T06:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/?p=5508"},"modified":"2021-05-31T15:18:33","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T22:18:33","slug":"review-starwars-clonewars-s4-bd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/2012\/10\/review-starwars-clonewars-s4-bd\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Season 4 Blu-ray Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/2012\/10\/review-starwars-clonewars-s4-bd\/#more-5508\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Season 4 Blu-ray Review\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moviemansguide.com\/images\/main\/logos\/warnerhomevideo2-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><b>\u201cStar Wars: The Clone Wars\u201d Season Four<\/b> is a fun animated series with great action, incredible animation and well written stories (for the most part). Not sure how fanboys liked the show but for myself, as a modest fan of the franchise, I found each episode, and the season as a whole, to be enjoyable.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"*\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moviemansguide.com\/images\/main\/bar_blue.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"3\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B008FTXQ8G\/moviemsguidet-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 2px solid blue;\" title=\"Buy Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Season 4 on Blu-ray from Amazon.com\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moviemansguide.com\/images\/reviews\/2013\/clonewars-s4-bd.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"379\" \/><\/a><strong><br \/>\n&#8220;Star Wars: The Clone Wars&#8221; The Complete Fourth Season (2011-12)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><br \/>\nREVIEW NAVIGATION<\/strong><\/span><strong><a href=\"#movie\"><br \/>\nThe Movie<\/a> | <a href=\"#features\">Special Features<\/a> | <a href=\"#video\">Video Quality<\/a> | <a href=\"#audio\">Audio Quality<\/a> | <a href=\"#overall\">Overall<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Genre(s): <\/b>Science Fiction, Action, Adventure<br \/>\nWarner Bros. | NR \u2013 493 min. \u2013 $59.99 | October 23, 2012<\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">MOVIE INFO:<br \/>\n<\/span>Directed by: <\/b>Various<br \/>\n<b>Writer(s): <\/b>George Lucas (created by)<br \/>\n<b>Cast: <\/b>Matt Lanter, James Arnold Taylor, Catherine Taber, Anthony Daniels<\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">DISC INFO:<br \/>\n<\/span>Features: <\/b>Commentaries, Test Animation, Concept Art, 3D Turnarounds<br \/>\n<b>Number of Discs: <\/b>3<\/p>\n<p><b>Audio: <\/b>English (DTS-HD MA 5.1), French (Dolby Digital 5.1), Spanish (Dolby Digital 5.1)<br \/>\n<b>Video: <\/b>1080p\/Widescreen 2.40<br \/>\n<b>Subtitles: <\/b>English SDH, French, Spanish<br \/>\n<b>Disc Size: <\/b>NA<br \/>\n<b>Codec: <\/b>MPEG-4 AVC<br \/>\n<b>Region(s): <\/b>A, B, C<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"movie\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"*\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moviemansguide.com\/images\/main\/bar_blue.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"3\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>THE MOVIE<\/strong><strong> \u2013 3.75\/5<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><b>Synopsis: <\/b>The battle to save the galaxy reaches new heights of peril and new depths of darkness. The valiant Jedi Knights and clone troopers defend exotic planets from enemy forces. They wage war underwater, battle across a night-shrouded world and take on the merciless Death Watch. Our heroes are tested like never before as Anakin is haunted by the realities of his past, Ahsoka fights to free her people, and an undercover Obi-Wan braves a deadly bounty hunter tournament. The season culminates with the shocking return of a villain from the past: the ruthless Darth Maul, who will stop at nothing to achieve vengeance.<\/p>\n<p><b>Quick Hit Review: <\/b>I\u2019ve never been a big fan of the <i>Star Wars<\/i> franchise, at least beyond admiring and enjoying the original trilogy and excoriating the prequels for its use of visual effects in place of strong performances, well developed characters and story. So going into the series, <b>\u201cStar Wars: The Clone Wars\u201d<\/b>, I didn\u2019t have high expectations but surprisingly I found it entertaining and the animation well done. This fourth season is nice for both fans and novices taking individual stories connected with an overall theme that being the Jedi\u2019s attempts to thwart the advancements of Count Dooku, as he and the Empire hope to take over more territory.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"features\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"*\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moviemansguide.com\/images\/main\/bar_blue.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"3\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>SPECIAL FEATURES \u2013 2.75\/5<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>This release comes with a sleek and glossy <b>slip cover<\/b>. The 3-discs are contained in a standard sized Blu-ray case. Each of the following features are spread across the set.<\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Video Commentaries<\/span><\/b> are available on \u201cThe Battle of Mon Cala\u201d, \u201cSlaves of Zygerria\u201d, \u201cDarth Maul Returns\u201d and \u201cObi-Wan Undercover\u201d sequences. Each one has the episode director, artist and other talents as they talk about the sequence over behind-the-scenes, episode and other footage from the universe.<\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Jedi Temple Archives<\/span><\/b> allows viewers to discover galleries of original 3D models, process comparisons, character designs, deleted scenes and more. <b>** Blu-ray Exclusive **<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"*\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moviemansguide.com\/images\/main\/bar_blue.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"3\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"video\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>VIDEO \u2013 4.5\/5<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><b>\u201cStar Wars: The Clone Wars\u201d Season 4<\/b> arrives on Blu-ray via Warner Home Video presented with a rare, for television programs, 2.40 widescreen aspect ratio. The 1080p high-definition transfer looks sharp from beginning to end and best of all, features bright colors which nicely jump off the screen. Given how some other recent animated features looked on Blu-ray, I was pleased with the video.<br \/>\n<a name=\"audio\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"*\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moviemansguide.com\/images\/main\/bar_blue.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"3\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>AUDIO \u2013 4.0\/5<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The season comes equipped with a 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio track which sounds alright but not entirely dynamic compared with other releases out there. That being said, the dialogue levels do sound clear and during the numerous action scenes in every episode, the front and rear speakers also get some use although it seems some of it is a bit front loaded.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"*\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moviemansguide.com\/images\/main\/bar_blue.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"3\" \/><br \/>\n<a name=\"overall\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>OVERALL \u2013 3.75\/5<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Overall, <b>\u201cStar Wars: The Clone Wars\u201d Season Four<\/b> is a fun animated series with great action, incredible animation and well written stories (for the most part). Not sure how fanboys liked the show but for myself, as a modest fan of the franchise, I found each episode, and the season as a whole, to be enjoyable. The Blu-ray set is nice with solid audio\/video transfers and some OK features.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Published: <\/b>10\/25\/2012<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cStar Wars: The Clone Wars\u201d Season Four is a fun animated series with great action, incredible animation and well written stories (for the most part). Not sure how fanboys liked the show but for myself, as a modest fan of the franchise, I found each episode, and the season as a whole, to be enjoyable. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/2012\/10\/review-starwars-clonewars-s4-bd\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Season 4 Blu-ray Review&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,970],"tags":[2019,599,598],"class_list":["post-5508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blurayreviews","category-quick-hit-reviews","tag-clone-wars","tag-george-lucas","tag-star-wars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5508"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26264,"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5508\/revisions\/26264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}