Bad dialogue [small spoiler]

Rating: 2/10 (27 May 2002)

I am a SW fan. Big one. And I was hoping that this movie would restore my faith in Lucas to produce magic after the let-down of Episode 1. But alas..
The dialogue in this movie compares at best to a mediocre daytime-soap. The one-liners like "I hate it when he does that" and "This is why I hate flying." (to name a few) I mean - come on. This mind-numbingness saturates all the dialogue throughout the movie.
And check out Obi-Wan talking to the president of the cloners. His 'sneaky' story is so lame that even jellyfish-brain jar-jar would have seen right through it. During the big chase Obi-Wan very jedi-like informs young Anakin about shapeshifters with zenish wisdom. "Be extra careful." Hello? These are jedi - not driving school teachers.
With this kind of budget Lucas should at least be able to hire people to write good dialogue (maybe the people of ep. 4-6?) and someone to point out the gaping logical holes in the story?
But not to worry. After Obi-Wan is captured there is a lot less talking and heaps of mainstream Hollywood action and enough cgi to cover the national debt of several small nations. So the box-office will probably be happy.
On the plus side - Yoda gets to kick ass, and the Fett family does an ok job. Very nice use of music when Anakin feels the dark side - da da da da-dada da-dada:)
-jorg
[sw love like it should be.]
Leia : "I love you."
Han : "I know."