Revenge of the Sith a return to form for Lucas

Rating: 7/10 (24 May 2005)

I was quite young when Episode IV came out, and I loved it for its excitement. Having within the last year or two rewatched the original series, these are my observations:
IV is the best of the series. V is good, but the 'romantic' banter between Han Solo and Princess Leia was really bad. VI is OK, but it turns cheesy, and has a happy clappy, Caspar the friendly ghost type ending. The Ewoks were the most marketing/toy driven characters of the first trilogy.
Episodes I-II Awful. Jar Jar Binks was a hopeless attempt at creating a new comedic character along the lines of R2D2 and C3PO. Lucas seemed to have gone crazy with CGI, especially with Attack of the Clowns. Sure, he had millions of CGI fighters, but the scenes were a MESS. Contrast that with the brilliantly done scenes in Lord of the Rings II. It too had millions of CGI fighters, but it worked brilliantly because you could see military strategy and tactics being utilised and creating tension.
Revenge of the Sith-back to basics story telling-kept simple and easy to follow. Many analogies were drawn with today's 'war against terror', with Annakin aping some of Bush's 'arguments'.
Anyway, sure there were some clunky and barely serviceable dialogue, but the story was good enough. Maybe Annakin's venture to the dark side could have been handled differently and better, but I liked the fact that he made his decision impulsively.
What I'd like to see...now that Lucas has done a Star Wars worthy sequel, I'd like to see him REDO episodes I-II!!