Star Wars Episode II needs A New Hope

Rating: Null/10 (16 May 2002)

George Lucas has always had a style of intercutting various places and making it come together in the end, but this is all over the place. Unlike other Star Wars movies where there is a planet to start on, a space sequence and another planet, Episode II takes the viewer too many places many of which are not exciting at all. I know Lucas had to establish the connection between Aanikin and Padme more in this episode but it seems like over a third of the movie is simply exbisition. As a result, this is unfortuantly not the summer blockbuster that it was made out to be. The love story really slows down the action part of the story and looses the attention of the die hard fans quickly. And people new to the series can forget about easily following the plot. In all, there are only two memorable scenes in the entire movie, R2D2 flying and Yoda kicking ass. There are messy editing techniques in the Gladiator scene where ObiWan and Anakin suddenly get lightsabers after losing them earlier, and the role of Jango Fett is not described nearly well enough. I am glad to see that Jar-Jar has been given a much smaller role than his previous in Phantom and that the classic comedy comes from the R2D2 and C3PO characters again. However the stupidity in Jar Jar comes through too much still as he makes one of the biggest mistakes in the galaxy as a senator. Overall, if you didn't like Phantom chances are that you probably won't be crazy about Attack of the Clones. As a huge fan of the original trilogy it hurts to say that I would rather see Spider-man again rather than sit through this once more.