The second best STAR WARS film to date!!!

Rating: 10/10 (5 June 2002)

What a crowd pleaser!!! George Lucas has returned STAR WARS to what it always should have been; inventive, and adventurous. This film far exceeds EPISODE I on many levels. The writing, and dialogue are far better - personally that was my biggest concern with PHANTOM... Also, there is less Jar Jar Binks, so audiences will be less anoyed by the childish antics of that very disliked Gungan. But the best part of EPII was clearly Yoda. Yoda has the largest role his character has ever had in a STAR WARS film, and although he has become a CGI character from a puppet, the people at ILM did a marvelous job in crafting him. The scene where Yoda has his own lightsaber battle with Count Dooku is pretty impressive, as well. For IMDB, I'd rate this film at 10 stars. If it were the normal film rating system, however, I would give it 4 stars; both equalling excellence. On another note, I did love PHANTOM MENACE. But I do think that Lucas sacrificed the integrity of plot, and dialgue for the visual aspects. Nontheless, I loved both films of the new STAR WARS Trilogy.