minor flaws but overall, awesome

Rating: 10/10 (15 May 2002)

After queuing in line for 2 hours to get a decent seat, it was great to realise that east coast Australian audiences would be the first to see EP2 in the world. With high expectations and a roaring full house, it was easy to tell that the congregation was impressed. AOTC is a huge improvement over TPM in terms of story, characters and tone yet like EP1, it still had the flaw of woeful dialogue. With Lucas bringing on Jonathan Hales to flesh out the script, i would of expected better dialogue throughout the film, which brought much unintentional laughter. Although the humour was actually quite funny and there were some good lines, the writing and direction of the romance scenes was quite poor and proves Lucas as much to learn on executing chemistry with characters. Acting was good allround yet Christensen wasn't 100% capable of pulling off his role which to say, wasn't helped by his dialogue. It is easily seen any flaw of acting is contributed by actors not used to delivering amidst a wall of blue screens and with Lucas not having the best skills as helping actors blend their performances through the masses of fx surrounding them, the actors try their best. As far as fx, wow. The film has brilliant action sequences with the audience constantly dropping jaws no matter how much we know it's just CGI. As for the finale and Yoda..the whole cinema just erupted in cheers and 'holy sh..s' Overall AOTC is a great film and if a little more effort had gone into the dialogue, it would have been a perfect sequel.