Quit your whining...

Rating: 8/10 (23 May 2002)

Yea, Ep. II has some bad dialogue and a contrived love story, but IT'S STAR WARS for crying out loud! If you're like me, you've been waiting since 1983 for another Star Wars movie, and you've got 2 so far. Sadly, all those "hardcore" Star Wars fans think that they're better than George Lucas, when most of them don't know what the outside of their parent's basement looks like.
Anyway, onto the film.
Dialogue - Like all movies, it comes off a bit wooden every once and a while. Some of the humor falls flat, some works perfectly. I think when Anakin and Obi-Wan are chasing Zam through Coruscant has some nice wit that most would consider stupid. The dialogue between Anakin and Padme when the arrive at the lake is really bad. The best bit though is in the room on Tatooine when Anakin comes back from the Tusken camp w/ Padme. That's powerful.
SFX - Absolutely stuning. Coruscant's cityscape is amazing. The Asteroid Field is wonderful, specially w/ the seismic charges. Geonosis is a nice wasteland. And so on and so forth. The clonetroopers are quite cool looking CG.
Plot - Complaining about a lack of plot you say? Look, and you shall see. Yea, it's convoluted, but it's not nearly as bad as 95% of all summer movies Hollywood puts out. It's an engaging plot line, cept for the lackluster romance.
Overall - This movie is better than "The Phantom Menace" and is still very much Star Wars as TPM was. Can't wait for Episode III in 2005.