can't cast, can't write, can do superb virtual reality sets.

Rating: 5/10 (20 June 2002)

Appalling casting and dialogue leaves one longing for the
ensemble to go away and let us enjoy the quite brilliantly created
scenery. Artists and programmers have done us proud, while a
bunch of writers and actors (surely it can't be all Lucas' fault) share
a few tasteless american beers, take their cash, and entirely fail in
whatever it was they were trying to achieve. Unless it is after all
just a vehicle for those special effects - which, to give the
producers their due, brilliantly succeed.
Gems include confusing Ian McGregor with Harrison Ford (same
wisecracks, different, oh so different delivery); the same actor's
momentary lapse of accent on entering a bar; the evident character
design of Dooku's part with two different scripts . The teenage
performers are better than in #1, but still get their heads in the way
of the scenery, and a few virtual aliens upstage the lot.