Disappointing prequel

Rating: 5/10 (28 October 2011)

After seeing the first prequel of Lucas' new installment of Star Wars films, I am apprehensive about the next two. Lucas does not have the same humor and charm the first films had. A new cast of characters and actors make it even more distant. The visuals are great, much improved from 20 years ago, but Lucas does not have the same glorious elements of his first trilogy. Those elements include comic relief, inspired characters, and a frightening antagonist. The protagonists here are not as good as the first films. His characters are lacking and the charm just really does not work in the same spellbinding way as the first trilogy.