Looks good, sounds terrible

Rating: 4/10 (17 May 2002)

When an audience gasps at an amazing looking backdrop, thats nice. When the same audience laughs out of shock at what they have just heard in the scene, thats not so good.
This film looks great, no question. And the action is certainly well directed apart from the usual video game friendly inserts. But the script is beyond a joke.
At times I thought that I was watching a set of big budget Monty Python sketches. The dialogue only had two settings; acceptable and dire. I don't expect hip irony - but watching Anakin chew through more poorly written adolescent wailing is not entertaining in the least.
At the end of the film some parts of the audience were starting to clap, but the instinct was immediately snuffed out by the sense of disbelief felt by most of us.
And yes, Yoda rocks.