is it just me or does Episode II suck worse than Episode I?

Rating: 3/10 (9 August 2002)

Being a fan of the original Star Wars trilogy, when I first saw The Phantom Menace, I was disappointed, like most Star Wars fans were. Then Episode II came out and I read about it and started hearing how it's so much better than The Phantom Menace, and how Star Wars has been saved. Puh-leez! Episode II is by far the worst Star Wars movie to date. It just disgusts me. It's missing all the mysticism and the comedy, excitement, action, magic of the original trilogy, not to mention it's ten times more boring than Episode I. This has to be one of the most boring movies I've ever seen. It just drags on and on and on. It's a shame that a talented guy like George Lucas makes such crappy movies this days. He's let all these special effects capabilities he has go to his head. Episode II is all special effects and that's enough to ruin the movie right there. The original trilogy did not rely too heavily on special effects and it didn't need to because it had such a great story. The script for Episode II is a joke. George Lucas needs to start letting other people write the Star Wars scripts. The love story is so cheesy and completely lacking in the romance. The romance between Han Solo and Leia in the original trilogy was well acted and well written. But the dialogue between Padme and Anakin in this movie sounds like something out of a crappy Hallmark card. But I guess Lucas tries to make up for the crappy script by overloading the movie with special effects which just makes it seem superficial. The last 45 minutes of the movie that were supposed to be so dazzling and exciting were about as fun as watching paint try. And that Yoda fight that everyone was talking about it? It's ridiculous. Seeing a little digital Yoda running around doing flips and stuff made me laugh. In conclusion this movie sucks. bye.