Attack of the cartoons.

Rating: 7/10 (7 October 2013)

I have seen this movie many times, and that is a understatement. When my family got the DVD about 8 years ago me and my brother would watch it together. At the time, the movie had enough eye candy visuals to keep us mentally stimulated and fixed to the screen. Well, for me anyways. Sometimes my brother would fall asleep. I really liked the movie then, and now 8 years later, I still like it. I like it still even after reading all the negative reviews I could find out there, including red letter media. I popped the DVD in again after years of watching it the other day, and I was struck with a realization that so many others seemed to have realized long before hand. This movie really is a bad movie. Now this is all subjective how one feels about this movie I understand, but I finally realized personally that yes, this is a bad movie. A bad movie indeed. Most strikingly it was the CGI that I noticed had not stood up well over time. The movie looks almost like a cartoon now. And the movie seems more childish than I remember. That was my initial feeling after seeing this movie after so many years. It simply has not held up well visually. I cringe now at the love scenes between Anakin and Padame. I see fallacies within. Stiff, forced acting. I can go on and on, but other people have reviewed this movie analytically better than I could ever. One thing that was interesting is that I never cared much for the originals growing up. It was the prequels that sparked my interest in Star Wars and then I began to watch the originals. After going back to the prequels I realized how inferior they are compared to the originals. The OT felt real. The PT, more like cartoons, Attack of the clones more so than the others. After it is all said and done, I still enjoy this movie, although I'm still trying to figure out exactly why I do. Perhaps I have an affinity for B movies. Attack of the clones is one of the best B movies there is.