I find Anakin and Padme to be quite annoying

Rating: 6/10 (2 January 2013)

I am sort of tossed up about this film, in some parts it seriously annoys me, but in other parts I still find it exceedingly good. After having watched it again I would have to say that the film actually does get better after Anakin goes on his killing spree on Tatooine, and the culminates in that pretty awesome lightsaber duel between Yoda and Count Dooku.
I guess the parts that really annoyed me had a lot to do with the developing relationship between Padme and Anakin, and while I accept that this is a major part of the film, it just did not seem to work all that well. In a sense it seemed that they were trying to over play Anakin's flaws as if working on the fact that since we all know that he is going to become Darth Vader and cross to the dark side of the force, then were was no real reason to be subtle about it. To me, this makes for very bad story telling, and also the character just seemed to be a little overboard. Oh, and I should also mentioned that most of Padme's outfits I also found exceedingly annoying, and it wasn't until she put on her Princess Leah outfit in the last hour of the film, that she become tolerable.
It is clear that Star Wars was always meant to be six films, particularly since A New Hope beings clearly indicating that it is film number four, and looking at these earlier films it is also clear that the story is about the rise and fall of Darth Vader, or to put it another way, it is a tragedy of Anakin Skywalker, however it is not a Shakespearian tragedy simply because the character of Anakin really wasn't all that good. I sort of wonder also why the character in The Clone Wars series actually seems to be more noble than the rash and hot headed youth that we see in this film.
A final point that I wish to make is that I find it interesting that certain groups protested heavily against Harry Potter, mainly for its use of magic and its appeal to children, but remained almost silent on these films. The reason I raise that is because of Anakin's origins, namely that he did not have a father. That effectively makes him a Christ figure, but a figure that is so flawed that he switches sides from good to evil. At least Harry Potter remained true to himself.