Gross failure in quality

Rating: 5/10 (20 September 2014)

Screenplay was well written, specially the whole Tatooine section is full of excitement and emotion as well as breathtaking special effects. most has been said before this review so I skip to the cons:
1. The special effects are worthy of a late 1990s 3D video game not a blockbuster feature film specially the Naboo section was awful, the whole grass is a solid green plane with polished 3D objects moving around. Even back in 1999 when I watched the movie on VHS tape, special effects looked awful in low resolution of the tape and now that I watched it again in HD, they looked much worse. If I were George Lucas, I would curb my enthusiasm of the possibilities of digital technology and focus on creating less crowded but more believable scenes with combination of old school stop motion animation and digital technology. I bet James Cameron could also make Avatar in 1999 but he was wise enough to wait another decade for the digital technology to mature. While Cameron is a genius, Lucas is just a lucky child who created the successful original Star Wars and is nurturing on the franchise ever since. I have no credit to give to George Lucas. Even today with all the progress in digital technology I still like the old school stop motion animation much better than CG because stop motion is an actual object like the actors and actresses themselves but CG as realistic as it can be is still pure animation and the audience deep down in his mind knows what he is watching does not exist even as a model. A wise director should try to create special effects with combination of stop motion, camera tricks and CG. Relying purely on stop motion makes the movie look dated and relying purely on CG, gives the audience a flat forgettable experience in the stream of CG flooded Si-Fi movies.
2. There is a narrow line between funny and ridiculous. Supposed to be Funny characters in the movie were ridiculous not funny. Even the script is ridiculous to the extent that makes an 8 years old child to complain and cry.
3. The whole droid army, their abilities and strategies was one big joke. It is essential for the director to hire a military adviser before creating any grand battle scenes. Apparently those primitives were not so primitive as they had magnetic shield or something like that, that's cool but how come the bullets could not penetrate the shield but droids could just walk past it? Nevertheless, the problem was far greater than that. It was not supposed to be a fictional version of ZULU wars. An army of primitives on open grass land, just carpet bomb them, nuke them, fry them with the guns of mother ships. Why sending those ridiculously FRAGILE droids to confront them? the whole thing was ridiculous and insulting to the audience's intelligence unless Lucas admits to his innate retardedness.
This movie was the second worst installment in the series. The worst installment was "Return of Jedi", yes, the third part of the original series. Overall a watchable movie (it should be after spending 150 million on its production) and commercially successful because of the hype based on original series but a gross failure in quality.