Star Wars - The Clone Wars (PG)

RY December 31, people across the world gather to pray that there will be world peace.
And that there will be no more Star Wars movies to bore non-believers witless.
Judging by the way this violent animation has appeared in the week that Russia has taken on Georgia, world peace is an inter-galactic pipe dream.
And so is the thought that the now 62-year-old George Lucas will ever stop milking his cash cows.
The man who dug up Indiana's Bones in May has executively produced this Star Wars' spin-off too.
It's very much Saturday morning stuff in appearance and, rather like The Simpsons, something of a TV movie in disguise (a small screen series is set to follow).
What saves The Clone Wars is that it's got a fair bit of pace - something that was sadly lacking in the three prequels - and the action sequences look in tune with the previous movies' models.