It aims higher and falls lower

Rating: 1/10 (10 August 2003)

More ambitious than the wretched Phantom Menace, after which I had ridiculously low expectations for Attack of the Clones, it is even more disheartening to see George Lucas' follow-up effort fail so miserably Â– though I can't say I'm surprised. Lucas has taken a fun and energetic franchise and turned it into a witless, soulless, and joyless exercise in wretched excess (of almost Ken Russelian proportions), full of ponderous exposition, atrocious acting and video game-like special effects.
I think this is about as close as I've ever come to walking out of any movie in my life, topping bottom-of-the-barrel fare like Adventures of Pluto Nash or The Country Bears. Even Batman and Robin was not capable of inflicting this much pain on its audience. It makes the majority of MST3K's cannon fodder look like Kane in comparison.