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Rating: Null/10 (19 May 2002)

well... it isn't a bad movie. but spiderman is WAAAY funner and the ONLY choice for a date movie due to it's steamier kiss scene. star wars strengths: incredible large scale sfx, design and production values.
weaknesses: dryer than tatooine dialogue, mostly boring steel magnolias in space first half, too short a sabre battle with yoda (2-3 min.), and much of the action is SO DENSE that it's hard to tell what's going on from the 5th row. the action would play out better on dvd with slow motion.
bear in mind that my criticism is mostly in the context of "compared to spiderman"
star wars is definately worth seeing once. i'd give it an 8 (pretty good) but give spiderman a super solid 9(.5) short of perfection only because of continuity errors.
p.s. i timed about 30 min. of action at the end, and it WASN'T non-stop as many have claimed.