Overloaded and not well developed.

Rating: 4/10 (17 May 2002)

This is in parts even worse than Episode I, but in some parts also as good as RETURN OF THE JEDI or A NEW HOPE. Nevertheless it never gets the intensity of EMPIRE STRIKES BACK. One main point to critisize the movie is that it's overloaded with three things: Ludicrous Dialogues, omnipresent CGIs and too many sub plots. The Love story seems not very moving and again Lucas spits in Composer John Williams' face by deleting his E II scoretracks of the great Battle Finale and putting in reedited parts of the Episode I score. And the worst thing: It has long parts, where it's just BORING as hell, which relies on both: Story and photography (on this water planet the set looks like a cheap 2001-Copy). And the scene, when Anakin makes his first step on the dark side by kill-kill-kill !?!? The idea is OK, but the scene is a desaster (not the killing, but the scene before). The worst example of class 3 acting by good but bored actors.
But some things put you out of the seat in a positive way: -Jar Jar Binks' tragical role in the Saga [believe me you want to shake him, till his babyish naive brain (if exists) checks, what he's doing !!!] - of course the final battle - J. Williams score (in the parts, where it is the E II score) - the visual effects (most time - some times you have this blue-screen-feeling or this underdeveloped-ILM-animation-under-time-pressure-feeling) - Ewan McGregor's and Christopher Lee's good but not extraordinary performances.
I'm not sure about the final fight between Count Doku and this 'Too-much-coffee-Yoda'! Should i laugh or should i be impresseed. Just don't know.
So, entertaining? YES! Real STAR WARS? Sometimes Yes mostly NO!