Rather fab

Rating: 9/10 (3 June 2002)

CONTAINS POSSIBLE SPOILERS
I was so appalled by 'The Phantom Menace' but Episode 2 totally blew me away. Its full of the texture and detail which appealed to me in the original films but which i felt was lacking from the first prequal. The script was quite good and manages to explain some of the history(such as why Anakin turned top the dark side) without getting bogged down in dry,wordy explanations . The chase at the beginning is brilliant, and the action throughout was well executed. But I've got afew niggling little complaints...
1) The love scenes - NOOOOOOO!It got to the point where i was terrified of the sudden, random appearance of Anakin and Padme staring soppily into each others eyes. But then, it did have a certain comedy value - the cliche of Rolling Merrily In The Fields had me in stitches.
2) Almost universal poor acting - you can do better, come on!!
3) Obi Wan's beard - i know it's to make McGregor look more Alec Guiness like, but it did look like it was about to leap from his face and start savaging people. OK, maybe it's just me... beards perplex me for some reason...
Anyway, it's a really fun film, very entertaining - if you like Star Wars go and see it now! If you don't like Star Wars go and see it now!Go oooon...