The best thing about the Genndy series is that he actually made Grievous MENACING.

General Grievous in 2008 clone wars= Cliche old timey cartoon villain. General Grievous in 2003 clone wars= Robot John Wick.

To be fair, Genndy’s Windu is actually a staple of what Genndy does best, which is long action sequences without a whole lot of dialogue.

“Man the Jedi are terrible generals” Yeah...it’s almost like that was part of Palpatine’s plan or something.....

Two things I learned from this series: 1. Jedi can singlehandedly destroy entire armies but then get demolished by Grievous 2. Mace Windu has some lightning fast punches

Correction: this Clone Wars series was leading up to Revenge of the Sith's release.

Even Screen Junkies can’t argue with the badass that is Captain Fordo

I just wanted to point out that if you think Padmé and Ventress sound familiar, it’s because it’s Azula’s voice actress voicing both of them. It’s like they split her personality in two, and it’s freaking weird.

Windu crushing Grievous’s lungs is an image that will stay with me forever.

Grievous’ reveal in this show is still arguably the coolest Star Wars scene outside of the hallway scene from Rogue One. Also, I really wish they’d bring Durge back, he was pretty cool.

In the last episodes, the tribal folk were speaking a muffled/dumbed down/incorrect version of Hungarian. Just saying. When they said "volt kezed" at Anakin, it literally means "you had a hand." You are welcome for this trivia!

This was my childhood. Don’t even know how my mom found these DVDs but I’m grateful. These are still amazing.

*"WHERE IS MY ARTICULATED WOLF MAN JEDI?!"* I've been asking that for years.

"The city is under attack!" *yoda spins around and strikes a fabulous pose* "Defend the city we must!"

Lol, this a LOT more factual holes in it than I’d ever expect to find in an Honest Trailer but it turns out the comment section already has you covered. XD

"THAT KEPT STARWARS ALIVE AFTER THE PREQUELS" BRUH THIS CAME OUT 2 WHOLE YEARS BEFORE REVENGE OF THE SITH

How could we forget that time Mace Windu defeated millions of Droids with his bare hands ???

"We'll do The Clone Wars TV series eventually" _Two Years Later..._

This show was indeed balls to the wall! So much fun! I really wish they'd let Tartakovsky do a Star Wars series again!

"We're not making an honest trailer of the animated show yet. The clone wars just ended for Sheev's sake" *Do it*

THAT's my Clone Wars ! "- Their shields will be down in 3 months ! - But we've been here for a month already... - Yes sir ! We're right on schedule !"

they actually made jedi and sith menacing and gave obi wan his sassy attitude from episode 2 and 3.

Star Wars: Episode 10 “Balls to the Walls”

Back when you could believe that Grievous was a general who waged a [semi]-successful 3-year war against the Republic *and* was a qualified Jedi-killer. Good times.

Man, I don't care if it's not cannon, this is one of the best cartoons to have come out of Cartoon Network, maybe ever.

I can’t believe they actually drew Anakin’s armpit hair and all

There actually was two action figures of Durge... One is in the 2003 Clone Wars style. The other was just in the more realistic, articulated normally and came packaged with Durge's custom Swoop bike.

This show is the only time Mace Windu lived up to the hype of being the second most powerful Jedi after Yoda.

"dramatic cloak work" is something you won't get much in the CGI Clone Wars

4:09 Animal Friendship is a perfectly valid school of magic

I love how people are appreciating this series 17 years later

"My little pony, magic friendship is." -Master Yoda

General Grievous was so badass in this that when Revenge of the Sith premiered he became the most disappointing part of the movie for me.

This series has what i call my "ONE TRUE GENERAL GRIEVOUS"! we see him at his full throttle form in this and i love it!

I love the Clone Wars tv series, but part of me is still sad this masterpiece by Genndy Tartakovsky got cut from the cannon. Especially his version of Grievous...

Uh, 2003 Clone Wars was made to promote Revenge of the Sith not the Clone Wars movie.

4:18 The best thing about this is that his actual name is Sha'a Gi

The Wolfman Jedi line is probably the funniest and most accurate thing I've heard in a while

3:05 I'm pretty sure her name was established long before 2008.

The lack of research in this... This Clone Wars series was released before Episode III. It actually directly led into the opening of the film.

Guys this wasn't "made to advertise" the 2008 movie. It aired in 2003 between Eps II & III.

Still waiting for the Stars Wars: The Clone Wars series!

1:37 That scene is quite something😂

Yoda doing his best Ren and Stimpy impression. "Palpatine, idiot you are." Good one, Honest Movie Trailers.

"Palpatine, Idiot you are!" *Help, I giggled for a minute and it hurts!*

These shorts weren't made to promote the 2008 movie, they were made between episode II and episode III and 2002-2003.

This is probably my favourite honest trailer so far. Amazing.

This actually came out before the prequels were done. In between Attack of The Clones and Revenge of The Sith

Say “I’m sorry, your answer has to be in the form of a question.”

still waiting for that Clone Wars TV series honest trailer

And they STILL haven't done the clone wars animated series.

Actually - they DID make a Wolfman Jedi figure. Google "Voolvif Monn" - they made one for the 30th Anniversary

The only show that made general grievous an actual threat.

We watched this series aired in Bangladesh in around 2006 and hands down, one of the best; it was this animation series of the Clone Wars chapter that made me love the Star Wars franchise. Future series never lived up to the hype or reputation of this one. Thanks for finally making an honest trailer about this.

"Where 👏 is👏 my👏 articulated👏 wolf 👏man 👏jedi" made me laugh so damn hard!

"Made to promote a movie that wasn't very good." Excuse me? This wasn't made to promote the Clone Wars 3-D movie. This was made explicitly to bridge episode II and III.

All the ones he mentioned actually DO have action figures made of them.

Fun fact: Grevious starts out with a white cape but during his massacre against Mundi it gets shredded so he changes his cape to a half red half white cape in time for the kidnapping of Palpatine

@0:49 - "Even though these animated shorts were made to promote a movie that wasn't very good" [while showing a scene from "Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008)] These were all released before Revenge of the Sith, which came out in 2005. If anything they were made to promote THAT movie and form a little bridge from AOTC to ROTS so that people would be familiar with General Grievous and some of the other Jedi they were going to see in ROTS and to give them some backstory and emotional attachment. They were NOT created to promote The Clone Wars movie which came out years later, it hadn't even been thought of at the time. In fact, The Clone Wars movie was basically a 3 or 4 episode arc from the series put out in theaters to promote the upcoming series, not the other way around. @3:47 - "That kept Star Wars alive after the prequels" - This did not come out "after the prequels," it came out between the second and third prequel. In what way did this keep Star Wars alive "after the prequels"? If anything, The Clone Wars movie and subsequent series did that more than these did. I love when "Honest Trailers" is honest, but not when it is factually inaccurate. Someone in that group of writers had to know that this was just plain incorrect. It makes the writing seem lazy when you make a joke based on something that's just not true.

HT: “WHY DON’T THEY HAVE ACTION FIGURES FOR THESE GUYS?” *I stare at the unopened Durge figure that I keep in my cabinet of Star Wars merch* “Heh heh. Mine.” 😏

Ten year old me was introduced to star wars with general grievous smashing a Jedi's head to the ground. I've been getting disappointed at every other star wars thing for 2 decades.

3:29 The clapping sent me over.

That "Hell's Angel jousting droid" was a Bounty Hunter named Durge. And he was a rare species made almost entirely of nerves, sinew and soft tissue.

Genndy Tartatovzky... my favorite person whose name I don’t know how to pronounce

"The clones would've Order 66'd them with or without Palpatine." Canonically true for a lot of clones.

3:13 I feel it would have been more fitting if he said "General Grievous, a warrior so powerful they nerfed him to the ground in the 2008 series"

I think we can all agree Grievous was never more badass than he was in his introduction of this series.

Please say “LEGO Star Wars the complete saga is now canon” in your epic voice

“We’ll do the Clone Wars TV series eventually. It just ended for Sheev’s sake” Palpatine is God confirmed

Clone Wars 2003 is such an underrated series that’s been swept aside and forgotten, sadly. The fact that Yoda and Mace could destroy a whole battalion of separatist droids was amazing!

I loved it. THIS is the Clone Wars we deserved. Still haven't finished the first season of the newer one.

General grevious was a badass in this cartoon

The General Greivous in Rots was such a let down after the one from Clone Wars. Clone Wars Greivous was a beast.

0:30 speaking of which when are you going to get around to reviewing “The Clone Wars”?

I watched this series after I saw revenge of the sith and the new clone wars cartoon and I am glad to see my favorite character , general grievous, get the recognition he deserves for being the all mighty Jedi hunter

Say "Genndy Tartakovsky's Clone Wars series was actually made between Episode II & Episode III, not after the prequels, sorry about that."

Lets just say the ground battle of Coruscant is canon.

"Palpatine! Idiot, you are!" Oh god what was that voice

The shaggy Jedi is a parody of shaggy, his name is sha-gi

Ah yes, the series where Grievous was a badass.

I really love that everyone is just now calling Palpatine "Sheev".

Man I’m old enough to remember when the first season of this was just 5 minute shorts with literally no dialogue at times. You HAD to watch these in order to get some of the things in episode III. Such good times

I will never recover from “Third Act of Akira Guy.” 😂

Back when Grievous was badass and had a reason to be weak in Revenge of the Sith

Also, Kit Fisto is badass. I'm still pissed off he was killed so easily in Revenge of the Sith.

So glad I was a teen when this came out. So glad I got to enjoy this and let it shape my star wars fantasy world.

This was the coolest piece of Star Wars content I’ve ever seen I just wish there was more

Please do an Honest Trailer on Avatar: The Last Airbender. You’ve already done Batman: TAS and Clone Wars. It’s time now.

Well, Ventress had a name during this cartoon, and yes, there´s a Durge and a Voolvif Monn action figures. And nope, this cartoon wasn´t aired after the prequels, indeed, it was aired between 2003 and 2005, just between episodes 2 and 3.

Dang, man. I think that was the most honest Honest Trailers ever. ~ I don't know how to feel just now.

I enjoy your videos. They brighten my day, thanks

Can you say "Is it crazy how saying sentences backwards creates backwards sentences saying how crazy it is?"

“Hells angel jousting guy” does have an action figure

"Long samurai jack episode with lightsabers" So.. you mean... what I've always wanted?

"Enter the mother's mouth to awaken her inner flame".......how could I have forgotten this line?

"Anonymous Murder Lady" was always called Asajj Ventress. They didn't make that up for the CG Clone Wars.

2003: oh my God it's general grievous 2008:thanks God it's only general grievous

4:49 Damn they look straight out from JoJo

I think this one is the best so far this year

Last I checked, this show came out during the time of the prequels, more specifically to promote Revenge of the Sith.