Despite Chancellor Palpatine's concerns for her safety, Padmé travels to Tatooine.
The Hutt refuses to cooperate, apparently believing that it is the Jedi who are responsible for the situation. She decides to contact Jabba's uncle Ziro on Coruscant.
Meanwhile, Anakin's secret wife Senator Padmé Amidala learns of her husband's mission and fears for his safety. Though she manages to escape, she knows she has failed. Obi-Wan, alerted by Anakin, arrives on Teth and defeats Ventress in a lightsaber duel. The Jedi manage to escape the trap along with R2-D2 and hijack a derelict transport with which they travel to Tatooine. Anakin and Ahsoka track the kidnapper and Rotta to the planet Teth, where they are ambushed by Separatist forces led by Count Dooku's assassin and Dark Jedi Asajj Ventress. Anakin and Ahsoka are tasked with retrieving the Huttlet, while Obi-Wan is sent to Tatooine to negotiate with Jabba over a potential treaty between the Hutts and the Republic. The kidnapping has been engineered by Dooku's evil Sith master Darth Sidious, who hopes to frame the Jedi for Rotta's kidnapping in order to get Jabba to ally with the Separatists and fuel anti-Jedi sentiment from the Hutts. Ahsoka earns Anakin's respect.įollowing the battle, Yoda arrives and informs the Jedi that gangster Jabba the Hutt's son Rotta has been kidnapped. Anakin reluctantly accepts Ahsoka as his apprentice and the two succeed in deactivating the Separatists' energy field while Obi-Wan stalls the droid army commander, allowing a Republic victory. Awaiting reinforcements, the two Jedi greet a shuttle carrying a young Jedi Padawan named Ahsoka Tano, who insists that she has been assigned by Grandmaster Yoda to serve as Anakin's apprentice instead of Obi-Wan's, as initially believed. The events of the film chronologically take place between the season 1 episode "The Hidden Enemy" and the season 3 episode "Clone Cadets" of the television series.ĭuring the first year of the Clone Wars, Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker and his former master, Obi-Wan Kenobi, lead a small battalion of Republic Clone troopers against Count Dooku's Separatist droid army on the planet Christophsis.
The film serves as the backdoor pilot to the television series of the same name, which premiered on Cartoon Network two months after the film's release. It grossed $68.3 million worldwide, making it the lowest-grossing Star Wars film to date. It received largely negative reviews, who criticized its story, animation, dialogue, action sequences and the decision to release the pilot episodes as a feature-length film. The Clone Wars premiered on August 10, 2008, at Grauman's Egyptian Theatre, followed by a wide release five days later. While Anakin Skywalker and his newly-assigned apprentice Ahsoka Tano attempt to deliver the child back to his father, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Padmé Amidala lead separate investigations to uncover Dooku and Ziro's plot. In the film, Count Dooku and Jabba the Hutt's uncle Ziro orchestrate a plan to turn Jabba against the Galactic Republic by framing the Jedi for the kidnapping of his son. It is the first fully animated film in the Star Wars franchise and takes place shortly after Episode II – Attack of the Clones, at the start of the titular Clone Wars. Star Wars: The Clone Wars is a 2008 American computer-animated epic space opera film directed by Dave Filoni, produced by Lucasfilm Ltd.