The action music in cues such as “Battle of Christophsis”, “Sneaking Under the Shield” and “Destroying the Shield” is large-scale and impressive, and even intermittently includes a choir to add a level of majesty to the music. The fact that Kiner absolutely butchers the Star Wars theme by adding a synth undercurrent and changing the tempo in the “Main Title” is close to sacrilegious however, if you can get past this moment of film music heresy, parts of the rest of the score are actually quite entertaining.
Indicative of the movie’s lack of scope is the fact that Kevin Kiner, and not John Williams, scored the movie – the first time that a big-screen Star Wars has been scored by anyone other than the maestro. It looks like something that would be more at home on the Cartoon Network – in fact, that is where the spin-off TV series ended up – but with a wisecracking Jedi padawan who sounds like Miley Cyrus and a farting baby Jabba the Hutt, the whole think reeks of a franchise stuttering to its final, floundering demise. After captivating the world between 19 with the original trilogy, and again in 1999 prior to the release of The Phantom Menace, the magic touch of George Lucas has finally vanished following the release of the animated feature The Clone Wars, a badly-rendered adventure telling the story of what happened to Anakin Skywalker in between Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith. Well, ladies and gentlemen, the Star Wars saga has finally lost the plot.
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