Huge effort, big production values, weird design decisions, cringe-worthy dialog.

Rating: 4/10 (25 December 2007)

Having just re-visited Star Wars Episode III on DVD, i'm left wondering at a few weird scenes and the general stupidity of the movie. Half of the characters' motivation to do something must've happened off screen, the worst by far being Anakin's fall to the "dark side". Over what, exactly? He's seen the damage the Sith have done, he's had the emperor reveal himself IN PERSON, and yet ... ah, i'm not willing to go there. Too soap-opera like...
Instead, let's focus on some of the "slapstick gags", like: - a coughing ROBOT. Yes. Robot. Not even Cyborg, as we later see that he's a machine without lungs or anything resembling a respiratory tract. Except for the odd heart inside. Yet he's coughing! Oh, and he's the "secondary villain". Huh?! - R2D2's scenes with Obi-Wan's communicator/cell phone. (cringe) - Big, bad robots slipping on machine oil. - Same robots instantly catching fire and burning up to scrap. Model "Pinto", or what? Way to go, boys. T-800 must be really proud of you.
And the dialog in general. Ugh. All in all, this has left me with a feeling of watching two hours of re-enacting a comic book, right down to the speech bubbles...