Austin Powers 2 was better!

Rating: Null/10 (19 June 1999)

I am a 14 year old who saw all the three previous (or later depending on your perspective) movies many times and loved them all, especially Return of the Jedi. As such, it was not the nostalgic value of the new one that took me to it, just an interest to see if it was as good (or as bad) as everyone else said it was.
I was disappointed. The reliance on computer graphics annoyed me. When the original Star Wars were made the technology they used was new and even by today's standards, looks real. The computer graphic technology while very good (especially for creating landscapes and space ships) is still un realistic for fluid animal (human, alien etc) motion. On top of that I personally think it is cheating, when they can do better with other techniques.
But thats not the main problem I had with this movie. I will come to it later... Jar Jar Binks. He was just annoying and not funny. Lucas tried to use the EWOK trick on us again and this time it did not work. I loved the Ewoks and thought they were both touching and funny and cute. Jar Jar was just plain stupid as the rest of his race were serious and warlike, he was just a plain idiot. The whole Ewok race was small and primitive so their humourous 'tactics' were much more believable. As well, we see Ewoks die in return of the Jedi adding some element of realism. As for Jar Jar, being so clumsy and idiotic, in a war against super killing robots, he should have died. But Lucas tried to keep Jar Jar alive just for the littlies to have their laughs.
Anakin was acted badly and annoyingly... as well as much of the other characters were acted badly (understandable as they spent half the time reacting to blue and green screens).
But the main problem was the plot, so much more could have been explained and so much more could have be expressed, making a more coherent intelligent plot... but to explain all of this I'd have to write an analytical essay and aren't I boring you enough already?
But two good things for this film, Natalie Portman and John Williams. Natalie Portman was great (apart from obvious reasons stemming from the fact that I am 14 and an adolescent male...) she acted her roles especially as Queen Amidala (when we are certain she is her) with conviction. And that voice that she used for that role... :)
John Williams again wrote a wonderful score and it was very Star Wars in theme.
So you know you will HAVE to see it, but its just not as good as the other star wars. If you want to see another movie without an intelligent plot but with better usage of computer graphics check out Austin Powers 2, at least it is just trying to be a silly movie nothing more, nothing less...
So there is my long ranting rambling essay, just go out and watch it and decide for yourself coz you just HAVE to see it even though it is a disappointment.
And Yoda looks older with more hair (in my mind anyway...)