Disappointing.

Rating: 5/10 (7 January 2006)

After seeing some of the silly changes made to the Star Wars trilogy in the Special Edition, I knew that this movie was going to be seriously inferior to the original trilogy and that Lucas had lost his vision and was merely looking to tinker with the new special effects technology at his disposal.
However, I was somewhat pleasantly surprised with the film. It wasn't quite as bad as I thought it might be. It had something that passed for a plot and a few interesting characters.
The problems with the film really stuck out. First, the acting was marginal and the dialogue terrible and silly. Next, the special effects were too squeaky-clean and pastel-like to be believable. Nothing had that "lived-in" look from the original trilogy. Finally, the story doesn't mesh with the original trilogy and there are too many gaping plot holes and connections made between characters in these films and the characters in the old ones to be believable.
This was a roughly hour and a half long advertisement for Star Wars action figures. If you go into this movie wanting to see anything but that you are going to be sorely disappointed.