The first reasonable question that comes to mind has to do with the style of the music and the overall approach.
That’s why t he baton was given to the skilled – both for his television and film work – composer Kevin Kiner. An attempt perhaps to initiate interest on the forthcoming TV series of the same name at the same year. And don’t forget the most important factor of all: the film was animated. Which didn’t surprise anyone, of course, since George Lucas wasn’t directing and obviously we are dealing with a film of minor significance.
By the time of the film’s release in cinemas, this was the only film without the music of the ultimate master Jedi composer of this galaxy, John Williams. After all, how seriously can we take an animated Star Wars film? Well, not that much. This is when George Lucas will attempt to tell us what happened in the clone wars with a new film that deviates from the expected and display the unexpected: the first animated Star Wars film! Mixing Star Wars with animation does not prepares us for something terribly exciting. “ Star Wars: Attack of the Clones” (2002) ends at the beginning of the Clone Wars, while the sequel “Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith” (2005) starts with the last crucial battle of a space war that viewers won’t watch in cinemas until 2008. In Star Wars plot development, there was a period of turmoil and war known as “The Clone Wars”, to which none of the Star Wars films had substantially addressed.
Kevin Kiner’s score is particularly interesting due to its originality.“ The other Star Wars soundtracks written by John Williams, however, “It might be considered a weak effort next to
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