Worth The Wait

Rating: 10/10 (18 May 2002)

This flick pretty much speaks for itself. Yeah, it was overloaded with mind numbing digital effects--hell, the whole movie is pretty much a mind numbing digital effect--but who cares, it was Star Wars all the way. To be honest, the entire movie could have sucked, but the single, two minute scene with the "Matrix" style Yoda butt-whoopin' made the entire movie, nay, the entire series of films completely worth it. Not bad for a character who used to be a glorified sock puppet with someone's hand crammed in his rear. Luckily, the entire movie didn't suck to say the least, and George Lucas, in my opinion, has made up for the travesty that was "The Phantom Menace" from which the only good things we got were Ewan McGregor as Obi-Wan and Natalie Portman as Queen...uh, no--Senator...um...oh, you know, that absolutely hot girl who got her form-fitting white outfit all torn up at the end of Episode II. The award goes to Natalie Portman for having the most stunning non-digital effects in the movie, rivaling the tongue-waggling classic "Princess Leia enslaved in a bikini" scene.