Oh My God

Rating: 1/10 (18 May 2002)

How do I put this gingerly? I'll get the good stuff out of the way first: Yoda kicked ass. Obi-Wan kicked ass.
Anyway, on to the rest. Hayden Christiansen is a terrible (and I mean loathsome) actor. He and Amidala have absolutely no chemistry together, and their romance seems to be shoved down the viewer's throat. Hayden couldn't act his way out of a paper bag. Ewan MacGreggor was excellent, however, and managed to play a good Alec Guinness. Back to the abomination of Episode 2, however. The look of the film was great (visually stunning), but the story was contrived. I don't get the whole cult following of Boba Fett. This movie seems like a lot of exposition for a character that gets killed by a blind guy with a stick. I know in the books he has a bigger part, which brings me to the next problem with the whole new Star Wars thing. I want to be able to pay $7.50 to see a movie and NOT need to spend an additional $30 on merchandise like books and comics to get character development which should have been shown in the film. Let me also say that Dooku was excellent. Too bad he isn't in the movie hardly at all, and we don't know a damn thing about him -- at all. I would like to know more about the villain's history, and not the history of the heroes (we already know that from Episodes 4-6). Don't get me wrong, I liked Episode I. It actually flowed well together and had enough action to keep me occupied for two hours plus. This failed in that regard until the very end of the movie. It's too bad when a great writer like George Lucas slaps together a B-movie-like piece of schlock like this. Too bad indeed.