A Saga that contradicts everything that goes on in IV-VI.

Rating: 4/10 (19 May 2005)

A very good story but also very disappointing.
I felt detached from the space battle at the beginning as it was too fast to know the geography and the scope of the battle, and most of the time it was like watching a computer game.
There was nothing big about the Tie-fighter/X-Wing ships, they looked like small toys when they entered the space ship, when you compare it to the hanger before the battle on the Death Star in ANH, you get the feel the X Wings were massive, in this film you don't.
When Obi Wan goes alone to take on the General, I felt like the special effects hadn't advanced since Wing Commander III which was released in 1994, because a lot of the time you could tell it was shot on a green screen, compared to IV-VI where you felt like you was on a planet, and there was nothing fake when you saw the ships, shuttles and other terrain vehicles, but with III your brain is automatically saying to you that's a computer graphic, which detaches yourself to the whole feel of the movie.
The dialogue between Anakin and Padme was dire and that's putting it mildly, I was looking at the background and SFX to try and distract myself by the appalling dialogue between them.
The Wookie scene was good but not really necessary to the plot, it didn't advance the storyline, and why didn't Chewie recognise the name Yoda in ESB or ROTJ? The Tarzan yell they did as they swung on to those ships did make me chuckle, a good homage to ROTJ.
Another amusing scene was when R2-D2 chucked that walkie-talkie device away so he doesn't get noticed by them droids.
General Grievous is basically a henchman like Jaws in the two Bond movies, he has very little screen time like Darth Maul, and it would have been a lot better if he was introduced to us in Episode I, as well as Dooku. Also it would have been better if Darth Maul would of lived on to Episode III, then that way we would of grown to appreciate these bad ass characters, instead of bit part henchman players that Lucas made them out to be.
The contradiction of the movie is even more worse than in I and II, Obi Wan said he only remembered the one droid in ANH, well he should of remembered C3-P0, as he's in all the key scenes, and the business of splitting the twins up so that Vader don't sense them, well Vader captures Princess Leia in ANH surely he would of sense that he was her daughter, after all he is a very powerful Jedi as quoted by the Emperor, and what of this giving life story, that Jedi power is never fully realised in ANY of the films!!!
Also Yoda mentions about practicing a new skill which means that he can see and talk to Jin, Luke didn't have to practice at all he manages quite fine on Hoth and on Dagobah.
Also why didn't Princess Leia recognise the name Yoda, surely her father would have mentioned his name when he talked about the clone wars as a child, okay he's not to mention about who her dad is, but didn't she say in ROTJ she remembered her mother? Really? How could she when she Padme died GIVING BIRTH? Also Aunt Beru and Uncle Owen, are not even Luke's Aunt and Uncle, so how the **** would Beru know what Luke's father was like in ANH when they've only met him briefly in Episode II? Also why would Owen slag off Obi Wan when he gives them a child, he hasn't done anything wrong to them in the past for Owen to come out and say he's crazy to Luke.
Also remember in Episode I when Yoda said that 'Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering. I sense much fear in you.' Didn't Mace display all these emotions, even though Palpatine was the Sith Lord, he should have known better.
Which brings me to Yoda and Obi Wan who train Anakin's own son to use the force but for their own selfish revenge, they give Luke the sword that Anakin used to slay all the Jedi's and younglings, they spiel out this bullshit about the only way to become a Jedi master, Luke must destroy Vader. Isn't that contradicting the Jedi code? With this many contradictions as well as the ones in Episode I and II, and it's easy to see why so many people say Lucas raped my childhood.
III was okay, but I won't be able to look at IV and VI the same again in a positive way without thinking well that scene contradicts the prequel.