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Star Wars: The Clone Wars is a 2008 animated film directed by Dave Filoni in which Count Dooku kidnaps Rotta, the infant son of Jabba the Hutt, and frames the Jedi for the crime. Anakin Skywalker and his new apprentice Ahsoka Tano attempt to return the child while Obi-Wan Kenobi and Padmé Amidala uncover the true conspiracy.
Star Wars: The Clone Wars earned $68,282,845 worldwide, including $35,161,554 in North America and $33,121,290 internationally. It opened to $14,611,273 on 3,452 screens and was produced on a budget of approximately $8.5 million, making it the lowest-grossing film in the Star Wars franchise.
Dave Filoni directed Star Wars: The Clone Wars. The film was produced by Lucasfilm Animation and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, premiering on the 10th of August 2008 at Grauman's Egyptian Theatre.
George Lucas decided to release the film after viewing early episodes of the planned animated television series on a large screen. He said, "This is so beautiful, why don't we just go and use the crew and make a feature?" Lucas later described the film as "almost an afterthought."
The film received generally negative reviews, with an 18% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 171 reviews and a Metacritic score of 35 out of 100. Critics most frequently attacked the animation quality and dialogue; Roger Ebert gave it 1.5 stars out of 4 and Entertainment Weekly critic Owen Gleiberman gave it an F grade.
The animation was created using Autodesk's Maya 3-D modeling program. George Lucas deliberately styled it as a homage to Japanese anime, manga, and the 1960s British supermarionation series Thunderbirds, and insisted on a live-action camera approach using long shots, aggressive lighting, and editing over storyboards.