Ebert got it very wrong

Rating: 9/10 (28 May 2002)

After reading many reviews, I went into the theater expecting to see bad acting and nothing memorable.
This movie is marvelous. Full of beautiful and complicated visuals--unrelenting for 2 hours and 22 minutes. I was almost exhausted from watching scene after scene filling the entire frame with detail in every corner.
Ebert got it wrong. The acting is really not that stiff. The love story was annoying but necessary, and about as much romance as Lucas would dare put into a Star Wars movie, so I think he made the best choice of a tough call. The movie transitions out of the romance scenes quickly enough, bringing us to yet another scene filled with visual wonder. There was no 'Han Solo', but who cares, that's already been done. No, there was no memorable dialog. The original 1977 Star Wars wasn't much better. Easily and quickly forgiven since this movie has so many memorable scenes (SPOILERS! not in any particular order):
Yoda's super-fast light sabre skills--- C3PO's head attached to a battle droid body--- Huge starship crashing in the desert--- Beautiful waterfalls on Naboo (oh, and those cows)--- Anakin's massacre of the sand people camp--- Open sand crawler transports in the night--- Monster arena--- Clone battle (marvelous)--- Young children in their first Jedi trainee class--- Droid factory--- Clone factory on the rainy planet--- New and improved chase scene through an asteroid field (amazing)--- Clone army loading into huge transports as the "Empire" musical theme plays
You must appreciate the time and effort that went into every scene. Much greater in scope than Phantom Menace. It will be an essential DVD in order to go back and review all the details. I can't wait. This is my favorite of the five Star Wars movies. I did not like 'Phantom Menace'. With 'Attach of the Clones', I as blown away by the experience. My vote 9 of 10.