Simple, clichéd, frustrating and just rubbish!

Rating: 5/10 (14 May 2004)

Its a shame for the 1,000 word max cos i could have crit this film until the cows came home.
First of all, it shows an interesting insight into the minds of our (being English) trans-Atlantic friends . . of their gullible, brain-washed minds. Is Lucas trying to change the world through film, making a happy happy world???
But the film . . should be re-titled "how to ruin a world-beating series in one go" Awful, more than that. Acting was, with exception of Christopher Lee (a brit, surprise not), dire!! The story line was so transparent that someone with the mental age of 9 could see though it (again American audiences . . . ) and Yoda bouncing around made me cringe. I walked out the cinema angry . . . i liked Phantom Menace, all i needed to do there was ignore Binks and enjoy the fight scenes (although the blatant inconsistencies from Ep IV to this were not blankable - Anakin as a kid??? HUH . . watch New Hope) If you've seen the DVD and the extra's . . you have all these Jedi being trained by a handful of masters, but all the Jedi have unique fighting styles . . . huh?? Anyone who has done ANY sport will know that you pick up the style of your coach, so at worst they will have just several different styles . . this is one picky example of many of the lack of though in the film, just for over cutesyness for soft yanks . . . grrrrrr!!
It pains me to know that this travesty exists at all . . . Lucas has butchered his own superb work in the original three films . . Starwars will be forever tainted by his and i hope that Ep III pulls this out of the fire!!!