Star Wars IS back! IT'S REALLY BACK!!!

Rating: 10/10 (16 May 2002)

I am totally blown away... it's three hours since I came home from the premiere of EPISODE II and... and... well... oh... *sigh*
I really didn't think Lucas would ever find back to the old magic after the disappointment of "Phantom Menace" but he did it, BY GOD - HE DID IT!!! "Attack of the Clones" had EVERYTHING "Menace" lacked, in particular the SW-mythos is here in a big way! Everything, from the background of Boba Fett (beautifully played by young Daniel Logan), the origin of the stormtroopers, we even get to meet Uncle Owen as well as some well-known surroundings from EPISODE IV (the Lars-home).
And Hayden Christensen was something else! Forget the puny Jake Lloyd! Something tells me Christensen has a greater chance of a career than the young Mark Hamill 25 years ago! Just one quibble: basically the love story works, but a couple of scenes between him and Natalie Portman should have been even better. Thankfully the rest of the movie works like there was no tomorrow!
And to top it all of we get a fantastic finale with echoes of the Hoth-battle in THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK and best of all: a PHENOMENAL duel between YODA and CHRISTOPHER LEE!!!! I thought I had died and gone to movie heaven!!!!!!! That scene was one of the all-time greatest wet-dreams I've had in a movie theatre my entire life!
To speak Yoda: From the bottom of my heart George Lucas I thank.