If wasting time and money while getting bored and giggling at stupid dialogue is your favorite past time - go and see this movie!

Rating: 1/10 (16 May 2002)

The "Phantom Menace" was really very bad, so comments like "Phantom Menace forgiven" can make you think "Attack of the Clones" has to be really good. Being (as all people of my age) a long time Star Wars fan (but not fanatic), I decided to see it on the first screening at midnight 15/16 of May. It's really a pity I didn't have a bad feeling about this - I'd better to stay at home.
This movie was like watching one of those TV Channels that advertise for computer games 24/7, with small exception that on this game we had some real-living-human actors blueboxed into action, which doesn't happen very often in computer games lately. While CGI can really do magic, showing out-of-this-world landscapes (which, by the way in the first part of the movie look very much like Blade Runner meets The Fifth Element), it is just it: computer generated landscape and computer generated monsters. It doesn't come close to the REAL FEEL of cardboard props and rubber puppets we know from episodes 4-6. Real actors just make the CGI look really... erm... plastic.
But of course - if you like computer games you can really enjoy the movie, if you don't pay attention to what the actors say. Oh, well - I can forgive the stupid, pointless political part of the "plot", but the "love chit-chat" of Anakin and Padme... is just hopeless! From everywhere around you you can hear people giggling, laughing, saying "oh, my god! This is so stupid!" or "when will this nightmare end?" or "who wrote these dialogues?", and every time the movie switches from Obi-Wan story to Padme and Anakin you can hear people muttering "oh, not again!". If Lucas is planning to make a director's cut of this movie, he should make it a silent movie.
To sum it up - see it if you're really a desperate fanatic. Otherwise - wait until they show it on TV, so you can have your remote ready, when you get bored...