The audience laughed -- And they weren't supposed to

Rating: Null/10 (4 June 2002)

"I hate sand, it's gritty and coarse. But I like it here...Everything is soft and smooth."
--and the entire audience burst out laughing.
Just an example of some of the awful dialogue you'll find in Episode II. It's too bad that George Lucas has forgotten how to write a decent script, decent dialogue and direct a decent film.
All he gives us are some very annoying characters..even Yoda has become annoying. Young Bobafet must have had one direction from Lucas.. "Look Bad!" because that's all he ever does..produce a really stupid looking sneer and fake maniacal laughter from time to time (and now I'm really disappointed that I know who Bobfet really is....another annoying child actor that Lucas dug up somewhere..).
Perhaps "Howard the Duck" and "Radioland Murders" should have given us a hint of how much he's fallen as a filmmaker.
What people forget is that he didn't direct the last two episodes..and he should have given the directing helm to someone else during the first two episodes.
The biggest problem with the last two Star Wars pictures is the lack of a Han Solo-type character who would roll his eyes for us during those cheesy Jedi-speak moments. So now we are forced to take everything seriously and it just makes it overly campy. You can tell that Lucas is trying to interject humor into his screenplay for Ep II, but it just seems overly forced and cliche'. ("I hate it when he does that!" harr harr harr!!!)
Sorry, but now I dont even CARE about Episode III. If it's as bad as the first two episodes, then the first Trilogy is just part of a completely different story as far as I'm concerned, and I'll leave it at that and continue to enjoy Episodes IV - VI as if I'd never seen the first three.