Star Wars fans still have a lightsaber in their bum...

Rating: Null/10 (11 August 2002)

You think that Star Wars fans would be happy, Lucas made every effort to please the jedi-junkies in this film. There is tons of references to the original trilogy, including "cameos" from a lot of the familiar characters in the Star Wars univese, major fight scenes, and the intellegent politics-ridden plot that is existant in every Star Wars film, and he riddled it with GREAT action scenes and even got Yoda off his puppet butt and got him to fight. But noooooo according to the reviews on here, a bunch of you arn't happy with the new trilogy...well nuts to you.
The worst thing in all the hype of Attack of the Clones was hearing all the people who saw it say "It's better than The Phantom Menace" because frankly, I really liked The Phantom Menace, and I really like this film as well.
I think the plot as usual is very well done, including the love story. It's all belevable to me...even with the "wooden" acting, of course I'd never give anybody an Oscar for any of their roles in any Star Wars film, so I am used to cheesy acting in this saga. I remember a few years ago and seeing Hayden Christianson on "Higher Ground" and thinking, "He'll never star in anything big", I have my foot in my mouth for that one.
I can say there are two really great things about this movie. The first is that you can see the wheels turning on how all the events in Episodes 4-6 take place. The second, BIG ACTION. The final fight alone is worth seeing and the rest of the film is riddled with great action sequences.
In conclusion, Episode II and this new trilogy of Star Wars, "The Anakin Trilogy" as I refer to it, is along with The Phantom Menace are the Star Wars films for real Star Wars fans. Fans who do not think that Star Wars is holy, people who can recognize they are flawed yet fun films, people who just like to watch the characters in this universe brain child of Mr. Lucas, and can just enjoy the movies and not nit-pick anything new and experimental. Yes for those people, people like me, 2005 and Episode 3 are in a future, so painfully far, far, away.