Yikes, this is bad

Rating: 3/10 (20 January 2018)

Re-watching all the Star Wars films for the benefit of a younger member of my family and ... this one is just absurdly shockingly bad and easily forgettable.
Now that I'm viewing these more dispassionately, rather than when they first came out when I considered this one better than The Phantom Menace simply because it seemed more "mature" to me, this is actually a lot worse. At least The Phantom Menace had a clear (if boring - trade disputes anyone??) plot and structure, with a first, middle and final act, and a nicely self-contained story.
This film can only be summed up as "The one where Obi-Wan discovers the clone army that we see in Revenge of the Sith, and Anakin and Padme fall in love". That's really all you need to know, anything else that happens in this is basically filler, very badly scripted, and using woeful CGI).
Also any "romantic scenes" are just criminally bad, with truly cringe-worthy dialog (seriously, you have to see it to believe it) and not an ounce of chemistry between these two people who are supposedly in love (they both look like they'd rather be anyplace else).
Avoid, avoid avoid. Just watch The Phantom Menace (it's worth it just for Darth Maul), and proceed straight to Revenge of the Sith, understanding that some stuff happened in between that means the Republic now has an army of people that look a bit like the storm troopers from the original trilogy.