This has nothing to do with the previous trilogy!

Rating: Null/10 (26 October 2003)

The first two movies of the first trilogy achieve someting apparently impossible : they ruin the universe of Star Wars !!
25 years ago or more, as Georges Lucas started shooting his famous first trilogy of Star Wars, there were no digital effects, but there was creativity, there were no billions of dollars, but there was talent. A universe was created with it's complexity, it's diversity, it's political and cultural structure. There was a brilliant plot, very good actors,...well, it was an achievement. Three movies of exception that were giving an almost unsurpassable mixture of SF and Heroic-Fantasy put together. Now is the time of sequels, or prequels to be precise. And these prequels have absolutely nothing to do with the first trilogy : characters are shallow (Anakin Skywalker... no comments), special effects are completely out of subject (why this race of Rosewell-like aliens? Why this fight in the arena ? Of course, this has nothig to do with the hype of Gladiator...), and the story... well, is there a story ? Georges Lucas wants to show us that he can do better than the old trilogy, but he fails. Apparently, he has decided to do Hollywood-standard movies wich are stuffed like a Super King Size Burger. Too much confusion in the plot. Too much concessions to marketing. Yoda looses all his credibility in this movie. Isn't he supposed to be VERY OLD and DYING a few years later, as it occurs in the Empire Strikes Back ? And please, stop trying to justify the existence of Jar Jar : he is a big mistake, maybe the biggest mistake ever made by scenarists. No coherence, no consistence.
And above all, the peak of absurdity : head to head session between Amidala and Anakin with digital landscapes and Soap Opera dialogues...