Flawed, but still great, just like the other four!

Rating: 10/10 (19 March 2004)

I have a hard time understanding people who don´t like the new SW-films. Really, they´re not THAT different!

The second in the series, AOTC continues to build on the SW-saga, with the beginning of the Clone Wars, the start of Padme and Anakin´s relationship, and the slow countdown to fascist rule by the Empire. Palpatine gets his army, Anakin starts killing, and Natalie keeps proving she´s no Carrie Fisher...
One of the most hated sequences of this movie, the Romance, is uneven, to say the least. Some scenes work, others don´t, and some are so bad, they´re actually entertaining! (Funny enough, the bad actually remind me of some of the OT´s most hilarious moments! XD)
All in all, we get futuristic chases, battles, more lightsabres than ever before, and nice performances from Ewan McGregor, Frank Oz, Ian McDiarmid, and to a certain extent, Hayden Christensen (who´ll be more bulked up and nasty in part III.)
**** out of *****