So hey, my brother and I saw that Clone Wars movie last night.

It's a little weird to me, now that I know some New Zealanders, that all of the clone troopers have a New Zealand accent. Of course, when I saw the last few movies that had Kiwi Temuera Morrison playing the clones I didn't know anyone from there.

New Zealanders are cool, and thus so are the clones.

The movie itself isn't great by any means. But we knew that going in, with all of the bad reviews out there. I did like the painterly quality to the characters and especially the backgrounds. Some of the stylization of the characters was cool, too.

For the most part, however, the story was just not-engaging and at points downright confusing (the only people in the theater, I kept asking my brother "wait, whose ship is that?"). Ooh Senators and Galactic Councils and ... yawn.

But I guess that's about par for the last few movies. The dialogue was stilted, too, and the action sequences were less-than-tense - two more hallmarks of a George Lucas production.

Luckily the new characters don't all suck. The preteen girl Padawan Jedi trainee, Ahsoka Tano, isn't nearly as lame as Jar-Jar.

And we learn that Jabba the Hutt had a gay uncle (but really, who doesn't these days?).

We also learn that there's a fine line between "Padawan training" and "child endangerment".

It'll be interesting to see where the TV series goes from here. I mean, it can't be as bad as Jar-Jar.

Can it?