Annikin, the big sulk

Rating: Null/10 (10 December 2002)

I've never really got the Star Wars thing, I've never felt the urge to camp over night for tickets, when I can go along to a cinema 2 days later and get in with no problem, or waited till midnight at HMV for the DVD release, when I can stroll into Tesco's the next day and pick up a copy. So Star Wars purists will probably say, what gives me the right to criticise this movie. At the end of the day, I am a movie fan, and can recognise a good movie from a bad movie, and this one sucked, where do I start, acting, script, effects, lack of cohesive story arc. At least they restricted the terminally annoying Jar-Jar-Binks to little more than a cameo role. Ewan mcGregor sounded like a cross between Biggles and a Pathe News announcer, 'what the blazes!' and 'a clone armer!' amongst his more memorable lines. The attempts at humour were risable. Annikin just looked and acted like any surly pubescant teenager from an aussie soap, christ I was expecting him to runaway from home if he did not get his own way, that'll teach the grown-ups. Yoda trying to bellow orders in is his back to front English, 'The Space Ships, aim for, you must' any trooper would say 'what the **** did he just say' As for Christopher Lee, was he just practising his Saruman role. One last point, why was it called Attack of the Clones anyway, they don't appear till right at the end. It should have been called Episode II:Annikin, the sulky years.