Utter, utter crap.

Rating: 1/10 (8 June 2005)

I just wanted to write 'crap' as a comment, but IMDb requires a ten-line summary. Writing 'crap' ten times would suffice my loathing of this film, but that would be churlish.
Here goes...
1. Surely after casting Jake Lloyd as Anakin and realising that he couldn't act ('Yippee' anyone?), he would have steered clear of using talentless child actors...but no. In what should possibly be THE pivotal scene in the film - Anakin truly turns to the Dark Side with his destruction of the Jedi "younglings" (even typing that word makes me feel nauseous) - he prefixes this with another card-reading mouth-breather which completely removes any feeling whatsoever from this scene.
2. People seem to be praising the CGI. Were they actually watching the same film? On several occasions, you could see the join on the heads of the Clone Army and they jerked around the screen like Thunderbirds puppets.
3. General Grevious, like Darth Maul in TPM, was CRIMINALLY underused (where's all the Jedi killing?).
People comment on saying this is the best of the prequels, but frankly that's like saying this turd smells the least.
There, I've said it. You want the film of the summer, watch 'Sin City'. More gravitas, humour and acting in the first five minutes then in this turgid two and half hours.