The clones strikes back

Rating: 10/10 (19 May 2002)

With AOTC Lucasfilm did not make the same mistake as they did in 1999. The movie opened in 30something countries on the same day, and fortunately in Europe we ( first time in history ) were able to see it 6 hours before than our american friends. Honestly I did see the movie on Tuesday on the media screening.
As far as I can tell, this is the 2nd best SW movie of all time. The first is TESB of course, normally ROTJ would be the best, but I cannot forgive for the ewoks ( me dislike plush bears ).
If TPM had two good action sequence ( pod race and the "duel of fates" ), AOTC has 5 and all of them are fantastic, the chase on Coruscant, Jungo/Obi Wan, Asteroid field sequence, droid factory, and the last twentysomething minutes from the arena to the hangar scene with Obi wan/Anakin/Yoda and Dooku.Yoda is fighting, do I have to say more ? :o)
The scenic bombs ( or what are they call them ) are truly impressive, but I have to confess, the movie is nothing but a CGI orgy for your eyes and the sound effects for your ears.
Meanwhile there is some story of course :o))
The story is developing, in this episode we got some really nice backgrounds for the Ep. IV/V/VI. And I really curious about EP III. because so much to tell.
As usual Palpatine is tricky, I missed Sidious a lot ( I did hope for more than one time, I wait for the DVD ), and the actors are not bad. This is a Star Wars movie, not W.Shakespeare, so do not expect really clever dialogues with depth.
As I read here at imdb, the same thing happened as in Hungary ( and I think globally ), a lot of people liked the movie and a lot really bashing it for several reason ( the critics never liked SW at all ).
There is some thing to understand why we are like this movie ( of course much-much more than TPM ):

we tried really hard not to grow up

we would like to love this movie, with Ep I. it was not really easy, but this one delivers the stuff you expecting from a SW movie.

A lot of people would like to have the same euphory from these movies what they had, when Ep IV/V/VI came out. It won't happen. When I did see the first time the first SW movie ( Ep IV as we now that now ) I was 11 years old. That was almost 23 years ago. Since then I did not aged a bit, I am able to see the new ones with a child's eyes.
Certainly I do like movies with meaning, I do like movies with much better plot and acting.
But this is Star Wars for christ's sake :o))
This is a tale about bad and good, in a galaxy far far away.
What did you expect ? :o)
I did get what I wanted, and I am very happy with the results.
With this background Ep III will be very dark, and the hardcore fans will be more than delighted.