Not aged well...

Rating: 5/10 (4 January 2019)

This is the perfect example of a film that has not aged well. The effects are now tragically bad. Even saying they have aged, I cannot be confident they were even particularly good when this was released. They are unsubtle and just painful. A lot of the character designs are also dreadful. Many exotic alien faces, looked almost as if they had been designed by a child, then animated by one.
It was inevitable this trilogy had a high bar to even come close to the level of the originals, but I fail to believe it was undoable nor that this is the best they could have achieved. As a young child I can see how I found this thrilling. Lots of flashing lights. Several action sequences. And a big loud mess. I do not share the same opinion now.
It is inexcusable quite how dull this entry to the franchise is. It tactically hides how boring this is, behind a many location swaps and several side plots. Many flashy action sequences are filtered in throughout to try maintain some level of interest, they work, but that's only due to the focus being reverted towards the out dated visual effects.
After many rewatches, a certain gungan has finally drawn my patients thin, and I can finally join the Jar Jar Binks repulsion bandwagon. However, no characters can be as infuriating as every character encountered on Tattooine - especially Anakin's friends!
The dialog is continuously stupid, cheesy and well, laughable. It is awful, and even with the dull plot and being completely underwhelming, the laughably poor script. So much of the dialog is actually completely frustrating, it is so sloppy and appears as if a 10 year old wrote it.