Better than Spiderman

Rating: 10/10 (20 May 2002)

I'll not provide a synopsis as most people already have or will. Here, you'll find what I liked and didn't. First off, I was impressed but there were some things that are still lacking. Thankfully Jar Jar was only in the film just a bit which has been highly publicized. The film had some good action in it, but it still felt like something was missing and I've come up with the answer, which I'll get to in a moment. The revisit to Tatooine was interesting, as was the 'car' chase. I'm a little annoyed with the Anakin/Padmé story though. There was too much about the romance which would've been fine if it had been deeper or better written. As it was, I was moved to boredom during some of it. Also, Christensen tended to overact leading me to somewhat blanch at his acting. If you take out the love story, and bite the bullet on Christensen's animation, the movie is very good indeed. The visual effects are simply stunning. The new digital Yoda was amazing. I would've never guessed he was digital if I didn't already know it. I kept looking for 'proof' and found it only once when Yoda spoke directly to Padmé. I give the movie 9 stars out of 10. I deduct only one star for the writing in the love story. I won't deduct for the overacting simply because it strikes me that the writing is what may have been the cause. Outside of that, it's an excellent film.