Quite forgettable but still fun!

Rating: 7/10 (28 May 2002)

Clearly I was not able and will never manage to understand the hype around The Star Wars saga. What I can understand is why it attracts such a huge audience: it is a pure entertainment and people generally take it as merely 2 hours of fun. Thanks to funny people in the central theater in Amsterdam, who helped with their jokes to "survive" embarassing love-story scenes of the movie: Lukas has proved once more he has no clue how to film anything else but special effects scene...and those were really good! The scenes of the paradise lake country (was it filmed on Italian Lakes???) are amazing, special effects of the city chase and last battle are inventive and spectacular. Despite lots of praises in media I did not notice any improvement in the script though. Moreover, I find that the second episode misses some irony that the first episode had. But in general I can recommend this movie as a good no-brain entertainment for a summer week-end. How would I rate it?? Well 7 out of 10, I would say.