This is in the top 250?!?!?!? Harsh review to follow.

Rating: 3/10 (23 May 2002)

I don't care how good special effects are in a movie (and this is perhaps why I'm in the minority this time) this film is a flat-out, bonafied, corn-fed stinkeroo. With a plot made from Swiss cheese, and acting as stiff as the Muir Woods, you'd think that a movie with so much going on (big space battle and chase scenes, strange alien worlds) would at least keep my interest. Despite my partner's coaching to "enjoy the world that they created," I found myself unable to get past the asinine writing and Annakin (that's 'Annie') Skywalker's inability to hide his Bronx accent. What happened to the Jedi? Why have they been reduced to bumbling, preachy, boring action heroes? And why can't Jedis visit their enslaved-sold-freed-married-abducted-tortured mothers once in a while? "You don't call, you don't write!" (There really is TOO much more I could say.)

I am sad, but certainly not surprised.
Someone should take the nail gun (Lucasfilm) away from the baby (George Lucas) before he does more irrevocable damage.