It's official. George Lucas is the Ed Wood of our generation.

Rating: 6/10 (8 July 2002)

((Mild spoilers ahead. Believe me, they won't ruin whatever enjoyment you might get from this "movie")).
Inept editing.
Insuffrible dialogue.
A corny love story which made me yawn in the theatre, while everyone else laughed at the poor acting.
Plot holes as big as the Death Star (spoiler: how come Yoda commanded the Clone Army when he made it very clear no Jedi asked for it?).
Jar Jar Binks. It doesn't matter it appeared for 10 minutes.

A 50's dinner. A city when there weren't such in the sequels. A chase aboard a spaceship which resembled a Ferrari Dino or a Porsche Speedster. Spaceships that look like buses. A transport identical to a B2 bomber.

1 1/2 hours wasted on a "romance" that never, ever had any chemistry in it.
Names pulled out from the loony bin ("Dookus"? "Tyranus"? Lucas, for the love of God, pay someone to create *good* names!)
There were few scenes worthy of a summer blockbuster (the Dooku lightsaber fight, the clone army attack, the initial chase). But nothing that can be compared to the simple, effective scenes in the original "Star Wars" or "Empire Strikes Back". Those movies look dated, yet they have a soul. It might be a shallow one, but they are tremendously enjoyable.
George Lucas, with his "***pisode II", has demonstrated he is, indeed, the Ed Wood of our generation. The only difference between them is that Lucas had a good idea once, and has been milking for what it's been worth for too long now (remember "Howard the Duck"?). Lucas has not made one single good movie ever since "Empire Strikes Back".
No, wait. I actually *enjoyed* "Plan 9 from Outer Space" a lot more than I "enjoyed" "Episode II". I'd watch "Plan 9" again.
Which is a shame, really. The possibilities were endless with this movie. Sadly, George Lucas insists on giving us "The Little Lulu" of comic-book serials when we were all expecting something closer to "X-Men".
A shame, a disgrace, a wasted opportunity. Lucas has to be the most inept director out there right now.