Forget that weird-looking Clone Wars movie coming out next month. The animated Star Wars sequel you're really going to want to see is part two of Robot Chicken's parody of the nerdtastic space epic.
Robot Chicken, of course, is the Cartoon Network show -- cocreated by actor Seth Green -- that satirizes pop culture with animated toy action figures. The results are as funny as anything on TV, while the classic stop-motion cartooning techniques are actually a lot more real-looking than a lot of the computerized animation seen today. And the show's Emmy-winning Star Wars episode, which was done with the blessing and participation of George Lucas himself, was just plain hilarious.
In addition to original Star Wars acting talent such as Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams and Ahmed Best (who somehow seems to have retained his sense of humor about Jar Jar Binks), the sequel will include a wide variety of well-known voices, including those of Green, Breckin Meyer, Conan O'Brien, Andy Richter and Seth MacFarlane. (Family Guy creator MacFarlane, of course, did his own Star Wars satire last year -- a highlight of which was when Chris, voiced by Green, and Peter, voiced by MacFarlane, stopped to argue about which one was better.)
The sequel will air in November -- just as Robot Chicken: Star Wars is released on video. After all, if there's one thing Lucas fans know, it's marketing.
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