Every Star Wars Movie Ranked From Worst To Best

11. The Clone Wars

Long before Disney had purchased Star Wars and were looking to launch their anthology movies, Lucasfilm were exploring films outside of the main episodes themselves, sort of.

Although given a big screen release, 2008’s The Clone Wars is little more than a jumped-up TV pilot (so much so you can probably justify whether it even really counts as a movie, but the cinematic release says so), and sadly not a very good one at that.

The movie explores the period between Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith, but sadly is unable to do anything really interesting with that three-year period. The story tends to veer into the nonsensical, with Anakin getting a Padawan, Ahsoka Tano, and the pair then going on a mission to retrieve the kidnapped son of Jabba the Hutt, complete with all the terrible dialogue Lucas had been producing for the past few years.

If there’s a benefit to this, it’s that it gave us the character of Ahsoka who, while annoying here, does go on to become one of the best outside of the movies, but that’s really about it. Fans would be forgiven for thinking the prequel trilogy was the nadir of Star Wars in cinemas, but they were sadly mistaken.

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