Where's Jeff Bridges?

Rating: Null/10 (24 May 2002)

Remember Tron? That movie about the guy getting stuck inside a video game? I'll bet the actors in this drivel feel a lot like that. Clones should win an Academy Award -- the new Best Animated Feature award. But at least the backgrounds ARE animated -- unlike the stiff playing Annakin. As for the CGI techniques, I can only say that as flat as this looked on the big screen, it's going to look even worse on TV, where you can see everything at once. But I'm looking forward to the next one, in which I've heard that Justin Timberlake will play Annakin and nobody will play Obi Wan -- they'll just scan a bunch of old Alec Guiness movies, computer de-age him, and walk him around like the dead president robots at Disneyland. And that movie will finally answer the fateful question: Why does Vader wear a helmet? In fact, it has nothing to do with keeping him alive or helping him breath. He simply doesn't want to be recognized as the annoying youths of Episodes I and II. Unless there's a Wookie in #III, I'm walking.