Good action clouded by boring romance...

Rating: 7/10 (5 September 2006)

This is perhaps the most romance-centered Star Wars film that has ever been created. It had great action scenes, and the visual effects were awesome. But as I said before, that isn't hard to find in a film these days.
The first film was more of a documentary and very slow moving. This film kicks up the pace, but is still slow and boring in parts. George Lucas picked an actor that looked exactly as I thought Anakan would, but unfortunately, that actor can't act very good.
The dialogue in this was pretty bad, of course. It was probably on the same level with the first film. This film was definitely better than Episode I, but it was still too much of a romance.
The fact that there is a large amount of romance in this film isn't the bad thing. It's that the romance scenes were so poorly written that it makes the whole movie seem poorly written.
Perhaps the only solid acting in this film was Christopher Lee's. He did a wonderful job portraying Count Duku. He was wonderful.
The new CG Yoda in this was much better than the horrible one they had in Episode I. This one looks exactly like the one in the originals, only better. And we can finally see his feet! The battle between Yoda and the Count was pulled of great. It didn't look funny, at least not to me, and I quite enjoyed that part. It was a cool battle.
The actual big battle was, from a animation point of view, wonderful. It was absolutely wonderful. Once we get to that point, it was a fast and action packed ride.
So, basically, if you can sit through long, boring, and poorly written romance scenes for a little over an hour, you'll get a big action packed finish. Sadly, the boring romance clouds up the good action and makes this film seem rather bad.
This was, probably, the worst out of the prequel trilogy. It was also my least anticipated. I wanted to see episode one because, like everyone else, it was Star Wars again! After that, Episode II didn't really have anything about it that I was looking forward to.
Episode III was probably my most anticipated because of the story it told and because it finally showed how Vadar came to be.