The Padawan Menace Nickel Review

[lazypadawan]

I managed to catch the LEGO Cartoon Network special "The Padawan Menace" between one showing on Friday and one on Saturday.

As you might expect, the show was overflowing with teh cute. There were two different arcs: one with a bunch younglings led around the galaxy by Artoo and Threepio (voiced by Anthony Daniels, natch), one with a smart alec youngling named Ian who is on a ship with Yoda (voiced by CW's Tom Kane). They managed to visit plenty of locales from all of the Star Wars movies. If you've seen other LEGO Star Wars animated shorts, this is just as preciously funny, only with a lot more dialogue. The biggest win was an ongoing gag with Darth Vader and a LEGO George Lucas (they really need to make that figure), complete with white hair, a beard, and his trademark checked shirt.

The reveal at the end is one big fat fanservice-o-rama, but it's LEGO so it annoyed me for only a second.

The special is going to be released in September on Blu-Ray and DVD.

Comments

[knight-ander.livejournal.com]

That was a pretty amusing piece of work. The ending was a bit of a groaner (I felt kinda stupid for not figuring it out earlier), but it was a really good show overall.

[pronker]

Thanks for posting about this -- I missed it. Those LEGO efforts are good.