Star Wars Epic Fail

I recently introduced Patrick, my girlfriend’s four year old son to the original Star Trek Trilogy (Episodes IV-VI). After completing them, he of course wanted more, so I reluctantly obliged. I began with the 2008 animated Star Wars Clone Wars feature film. Bear in mind that this movie was created to launch the televised cartoon series, and was targeted specifically at a younger demographic. In effect: this was made for him.
Within five minutes of starting the movie, these were the questions I was peppered with:
“Where’s Darth Vader?”
“Where’s Skywalker?”
“Where’s Chewie?” Indeed. Where is Chewie?
Yes, none of the fan favourites are in this movie, only their pale imitations. Also: explaining to a child the setting for the movie is a little difficult. “This is before Luke Skywalker was born.”
“That IS Darth Vader.” No one’s going to buy that crap. Not even a four year old.
We shut the movie off before seven minutes and watched Simpsons instead.

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