Not as bad as Phantom, but not as good as Empire...

Rating: 6/10 (16 May 2002)

...Empire being my favorite of the original trilogy, and remaining my favorite. There has been talk of AotC being the "Empire" of the first trilogy, but this simply isn't true. I'm not going to spoil anything when I say that the dialogue is wooden, the acting stiff, the romance unbelievable, and the jokes are often moronic and inappropriate. All this weighs heavily upon the viewer for the majority of the first two hours of the movie.
Things definitely pick up at the end, however, where the massive Jedi battle that everyone's been talking about actually takes place. The clone army fights the battledroid army, and explosions are plentiful. However, things somehow seemed a bit "off" through most of it, but things get right on track at the very end, with the lightsaber duels.
Yoda is the man.
Other comments; John Williams disappointed me with his score. The love theme, "Across the Stars", I believe, seems a bit overused, but that's possibly due to my own exposure to the music prior to seeing the movie. There are a fair number of surprises in store for the Star Wars fan, and you WILL be surprised by at least one of them; that much I can safely guarantee.
In all, I'm going to have to watch this movie again. Hopefully I'll be able to get some shuteye after the opening scroll and before the good parts start, about an hour and forty minutes in.