Ruins the plot of the entire series

Rating: 1/10 (27 January 2004)

Contains Spoilers So you land your ship on a planet dedicated to the production of clone warriors. The people of the planet see you arrive and say "Oh you must be here to pick up your 3 million clones! Where do you want that delivered? Don't worry about payment or anything we'll just put it on your tab. No sir we don't need to see your ID, I mean who else would come here?".
Then you are forced to ask yourself why Jango Fett? These are the storm troopers? If you read any of the Star Wars books (some of which are quite good) there is a MUCH BETTER back story. In the books Han Solo was a storm trooper and he saved chewey from other storm troopers forcing him to run away. Also in the books it alludes to the clones in the clone wars being made from Jedi. I think when all of us star wars fans pictured the clone wars, we saw braveheart with lightsabers (which someone posted on theforce.net). So Lucas totally trashes to good plot lines here.
Now we have Count Bufu. Oh I mean Count Duku. Was he in the first movie? NO! Why is he here? Because they killed a perfectly good bad guy in the first movie and now they needed a new one. Which brings me to a good point... bad guys! Actions and epics do not stand on the merit of the good guys, our sympathy for good characters is a pretty good boost that a mediocre good guy can be suitable. To make a good movie you need good BAD GUYS. Darth Vader blew up a planet with billions of people and choked a guy with his mind for insulting him. Plus Darth had James Earl Jones for a voice. Look at other great badguys... Alan Rickman (Die Hard, Robin Hood) Christopher Walken (The Prophecy, True Romance, Suicide Kings), Gary Oldman (The professional.. true romance). A good BAD GUY is essential to making a great movie.
In Star Wars episode II the bad guys have no motives and no screen time to develop their badness. There was one point where count Bufu is holding Obi Wan prisoner and he tries to convince Obi Wan that he is a good guy, and when I saw that I thought to myself "Nice... the bad guy will win over Obi Wans friendship and twist it to his advantage, finally a good plot hook!" Then Obi Wan said... I don't believe you: we'll fight now. Oh and Yoda's fight with Bufu? Sucked. If the little green guy is going to fight with a lightsaber he should manipulate it with his mind. Seeing yoda do Neo does not a good movie make.
And why is the Trade Federation even on the bad guy side anyway? Why are there a bunch of robots?
The love story between Anakin and the queen sucked. "I just slaughtered a village with women and children... love me". There was no chemistry between these two. If I were writing the script, Anakin would have had no foreshadowing of becoming vader. He'd be a great fantastic kid whose only flaw was a willingness to jump into situations beyond his level of control. By the end of the third movie we would not have this feeling of anakins imminent turn to the dark side, instead we'd love him... and at the climax of the third movie he'd make a sacrifice to save amidala or obi wan and give himself over to Palpatine. It would be a choice any of us could see ourselves making, thus showing the tragedy of the event. If we don't like Anakin, how can we be moved by his falling to the Dark Side?
If I have some facts wrong or I forgot something please excuse me, I only saw this movie once and I was retching through it all.
This movie and Matrix: Revolutions are two of the biggest disappointments in the history of Science Fiction.