Really bad

Rating: 1/10 (20 May 2005)

This film was much better than the other 2 "prequels". But that isn't enough to raise 'Revenge' above a 1 in the rating books. There were 2 things I liked about this film: the sweeping technological background animations, and the comparison of the emperor to George Bush. I have to give Lucas kudos on the Bush comparison especially. None of the other aspects of the film were interesting at all. The characters were dull, Obi Wan was a caricature of his future self, as was Yoda. The very fact of using computer animation in this film - in spite of the great backgrounds - was a betrayal of the original film. One of the things that made 'A New Hope' great was the delicate and subtle use of gesture to give character to creatures that essentially had no faces, like Vader, R2D2, and the rest. The use of true animation was pretty much restricted to ships in space in the original, while life forms were primarily puppets or humans. The subtlety and beauty displayed there were simply incredible. All that is gone in 'Revenge'. It's a hollow film that, like the previous 2, should never have been made, just as the original 3 should never have been butchered as they were.