Simple Stupid Poor

Rating: 4/10 (22 May 2002)

I can't see why the average rating of Episode 2 is 8.2 today, because this movie has so many obvious mistakes in the logical structure, that it sometimes hurts to watch it (Jango Fett kills the women, who was supposed to assassinate Princess Amidala by a poisoned arrow, while she's lying in Obi-Wan's Arms. Why doesn't he just kill Obi-Wan himself, all his problems would be solved when doing so?!?!?/Why does Anakin's mother immediately die after his arrival in the tent where she is locked up in??!!!?!?!/Why does Obi-Wan say that a planet is south of another one while watching a map of the galaxy? Of what use is south of' when describing a direction in space?!?!?!???! )
Additionally, I can't see any depth in character development in this movie. Anakin is influenced by love and hate and so he can't accomplish his mission like hes supposed to do and he'll finally becomes a menace to the republic, hoooh, that's clever and this was told in episodes 4-6 before. The scene in which his hate is shown is really primitive; he kills the murders of his mother, that's the level of character development in a B-movie. In addition, whenever homage is paid to the original trilogy, this is done obvious and simple, to make sure that even the biggest idiot in the cinema gets it. And of course, those scenes are always followed by a few seconds of silence to underline the brilliance of such a clever allusion.
What finally remains are some impressive sets and special effects and the brilliant, but mismatching Yoda-Fighting-Scene.
And OK, I confess, that some of the old magic and atmosphere of the episodes 4-6 returned, which makes episode 2 much better and entertaining than the terrible episode 1.
But in the end the unbelievable stupidity and simplicity of the story and character-development are too annoying to recommended this movie and it's impossible to give more than 5 points for a movie, which sometimes doesn't even reach the level of a Trash-Movie.