If at first you don't succeed.

Rating: 1/10 (5 August 2002)

I'll try to be brief. As an avid Star Wars fan for years I've always been gun-ho to soak up more and more of possibly the biggest franchise to date. However these new films are like trying to recreate a moment in your life. Like taking your grown children to the place you took them when they were little and expecting the same type of trip with the same magic.

Episode One was quite possibly the biggest disappointment to the Star Wars universe and Lucas knows it. He's trying to get better. I believe I read in Time Magazine that his response was something like he hadn't directed a film in years. Well, no offense Mr. Lucas, but you never did know how to direct. A New Hope was nothing compared to Empire and Jedi. Why? Cause Lucas directed A New Hope but not the others. Same with these new films. The problem is in the director, not the storyline per say.

My biggest beef about both Phantom Menace and Clones is that there's way too much CGI. What made the orginals so good was because they looked so real. Why? Because they were actually real things. They may have been puppets but they were a real thing. Slight hand movements gave them more emotion than a billion digital effects. It's what made them ALIVE to us.

Clones is getting back on track to the storyline. (Which is good) But it's still too fake. Way to fake. And that love scene was a joke. Just cause it's a film aimed at 13 year old boys doesn't mean it can't have meaning. I saw more love in Disney's Beauty and the Beast!
I hope Episode 3 is better. Maybe since James Earl Jones is coming back to voice Vader things will look up for it.
Bottom line, wait for it to be on video or televsion to see it.