Forced plot

Rating: 7/10 (17 May 2002)

The dialogue and acting were average, the story was better than average and showed an intelligence unseen in the Phantom Menace, and Jar Jar was barely visable (this is a good thing). One scene made me realise why the first three were better than the last two. The short order cook was the first character that seemed real, the first character we could recognize as a personality that we could relate too. Everyone else is so uptight, distanced, and shut off. There is no princess Leia or Han Solo in this. This one fact makes it hard to relate to the story, to become immersed in it. The characters fail to create the suspension of disbelief that made us all fall in love with the fairy tale that was Star Wars.