Easily One of the Worst Movies I Have Seen

Rating: 1/10 (17 May 2002)

"Attack of the Clones" is just dreadful on almost every level: plodding plot, leaden acting, cardboard dialog, clumsy editing, painfully trite themes, unfunny stabs at humor--even the vaunted action sequences, hyperkinetic though they are, have zero emotional involvement.
And why should they? As Frank de Caro put it on The Daily Show last night, Yoda has more personality than any of the living breathing characters on the screen. Hell, the clones themselves are more interesting.
The advance screening I saw yesterday had the audience howling in derision at the serious parts and groaning at the funny bits. I actually had to avert my eyes, such was embarrassment at the thought of having to sit through this.
With the one-two punch of The Phantom Menace and, now Attack of the Clones, George Lucas stands revealed as the P.T Barnum of cinema, turning out cynical, overhyped dreck for uncritical consumption by the brainwashed booboisie. If this movie makes big money, Lucas should title his next installment, "Return to the Egress." Barnum would have enjoyed the in-joke.