i got back a few hours ago from the opening night of star wars here in helsinki. ten screens in tennispalatsi were showing it, all starting at 3minutes past midnight.

the film was great. i loved it, despite mistakingly buying front row tickets thinking they were back row. so i spent the few hours missing out on a lot of the action due to being so close to the screen.

anyhoo, the movie. it was fantastic, looked fantastic with great little moments and some (typically) horrendous moments. to get the fullest from the whole experience, its a must to watch the 25 “clone wars” episodes that were on cartoon network over the last 18months. the cartoons are so good that when thinking of various scenes from the movie last night, i see them in cartoon style and not actual filmed scenes. check them all out! [clone wars here and here] [clone wars amazon.co.uk link and amazon.com link] (note: dvds contain the first 20 of the 25 episodes)