So much for quality

Rating: 4/10 (28 December 2003)

This movie reperesents laziness in many ways to me. Even though it does take an awful lot of effort to make a movie, especially one of this flavor and magnitude, it seems Mr Lucas just even trying hard enough. The movie replaces many elements of realism with overly cartoonish CGI. The movie seems to almost fully abandon using real sets and people. The actors spent most of their time in front of a blue screen. To add to it, we are presented with overacting that would struggle to find it's way even into B-movies, which is supremely sad because much of the cast is quite talented. The script in itself, presents a boring, flakey, and shallow love story.
You want fantasy, go check out Lord of the Rings, Peter Jackson has it down. Since they least they have some real sets, and use some miniatures, we at least have sense of solidity at what we are watching.