Clone Wars, the animated feature film that looks more like the World of Warcraft online game then an actual movie, opens this weekend. If you were looking forward to watching the flick and hearing the familiar voices of Hayden Christensen, Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, or Frank Oz, don’t waste your time. They aren’t in the movie. Instead, their parts are being voiced by unknowns.

Why would George Lucas do something like this? He explains to the good people of MTV:

“It used to be in animation you just had [unknown] actors do the parts. The idea of hiring a really good actor – Tom Hanks [for instance] – was a really revolutionary idea,” Lucas said. “Partly they did it because they were great actors, partly they did it cause they wanted to use them for publicity. To be very honest with you, I don’t really think I need to hire a big movie star to publicize my movie. I don’t need Angelina Jolie here. That’s what it comes down to in the end. They have two days in the studio and then they have like two weeks doing press. They are mainly paid for the press stuff.”

Thank you George Lucas for telling us how it was in the olden times, you douche. Angelina Jolie? Why bring her up? She has nothing to do with the Star Wars universe. If he’s going to do yet another Star Wars movie, he ought to at least bring back all of the actors to reprise their roles.

The characters aren’t going to look anything like they looked in the movies. They might as well sound like they sounded in the movies.