Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Episode III: Children of the Force

Hands down the best of Smudger's three Clone Wars edits (so far). The story flows incredibly well and despite being two story arcs it successfully makes it all feel part of one bigger narrative (introducing Cad Bane midway through the Ryloth arc certainly helped this). The overarching theme of children helped. By choosing Ryloth you get Ahsoka continuing to grow as well as the clones and their young Twi'lek ally which helps to connect to the final story of the Force sensitive children - very well thought out! While the final part - the hunt for the eponymous Children of the Force - in the final section of the movie felt a little rushed this is hardly the fault of the editor and it does him justice that he was able to weave in so many other ideas that matched the title he had given this edit anyway.

From a technical standpoint there were no moments where reconstructed dialogue to transition between stories stood out - something I know is a challenge in putting a variety of normally loosely connected episodes together. Honestly, from an audio and visual perspective the movie flowed so wonderfully. I have so much credit for Smudger for being able to pull this off. It genuinely felt like I was watching one single story.

Highly recommended and I can't wait until Episode IV comes along!

Great work! your masterful editing skills are now completely seamless. If I hadn't seen the show before I would be totally unaware of your skilled hand at work. Please keep it up!

Another great edit from Smudger. The visual and audio edits were all top-notch with a few noticeable but not distracting line replacements. I felt that this edit ran a little too long and could have used some more trimming, especially in the opening Ryloth scenes. The attempt to tie Hostage Crisis and Holocron Heist together felt to me a bit forced and very disjointed. Especially the scene where Orn Free Taa was sent away to do seemingly nothing. But these are minor gripes, overall I enjoyed this edit and am very much looking forward to his next instalment.

This is easily the best of the Clone Wars tv -> movie edits Smudger9 has produced. The story flows perfectly from start to finish and always feels like a movie experience as opposed to an episodic one. I've been intrigued with this series since Smudger9's first Clone Wars movie which was very well made if not slightly flawed. The second offering never quite felt like a movie in my opinion and reduced my interest in the series as a whole. But this third offering has thoroughly perfected Smudger9's Clone Wars movie formula.

The editing was nearly flawless and the overall story was fantastic. Great Job!