My faith in Lucas has returned...somewhat

Rating: 9/10 (4 June 2002)

after having suffered through the dreaded anguish of the phantom menace, i prayed that episode 2 would be much better. well, having seen the previews for it over and over and drooling over how cool it looked, i prayed the plot and dialogue would be an improvement over episode 1. by golly, it was. this is much better than episode 1, and actually has plot development in it. the action scenes are terrific, the acting is somewhat good, with a few exceptions, and yoda? well, pretty fly for a jedi he is, yes, mmm. hehe. anyway, a few problems i had with it: hayden's depiction of anakin's anger was well done, he acted like the perfect adolescent. however, his little cock of the head in the "love scenes" between him and portman left me...well...almost giggling. and the chemistry between them? let's just say even if they were in their own movies, they still wouldn't have enough chemistry between them. finally, its pretty unbelievable when a computer generated lawn ornament has better lines than more than half of the HUMAN cast. with all that said, attack of the clones is a very fun and enjoyable movie to watch. now, the buzz on episode 3 is the comical relief is going to be scratched. this one is gonna be a serious movie, and if they can add that feeling, like they did in the original trilogy, we're looking at the best of the three HOPEFULLY