Finally---a Star Wars film designed just for kids and dumb people!

Rating: 4/10 (28 November 2007)

Well, at the outset, this film already lost a point or two from me since it, once again, features that nauseating character "Jar-Jar". While some of my friends pointed out that he wasn't in this film as much as in the previous two, having him in the film at all makes me hate the movie. Why George Lucas dogmatically refused to admit that this character was a HUGE marketing mistake AND that he even went back to the earlier films to add him into irrelevant scenes for the DVD release is beyond me. Obviously, he is NOT a person who can admit he was wrong! All the unpurchased Jar-Jar merchandise sitting on store shelves as well as all the "I hate Jar-Jar" web sites SHOULD be an indication that he is less than loved by the public!
Now apart from that, the film is very lovely to look at--with great special effects and tons of eye candy for the viewer. You can't fault the action. However, I also think this film was designed for dumb people, as literate and non-cerebrally impaired people will notice that the dialog is simply one cliché after another. I know this may sound arrogant, but George Lucas wrote horrid dialog. When it comes to logic, this is also often missing from the film. I felt like screaming during at the scene where Vader is battling in a volcano--yet he doesn't break a sweat and only is injured when he eventually falls into the molten goo. He and his nemesis would have been vaporized long before touching the stuff and also would have choked to death on noxious fumes. Apparently this volcano only releases oxygen and is only hot to the touch! Additionally, while little kids loved it, when Yoda does his ninja-Jedi fighting scene, I was horrified at its stupidity. It was simply intended to entertain the lowest common denominator in the theater and was completely out of character. Many adults, I assume, cringed during these awful scenes.
When I compare this film to the earlier films, I am left saddened. Couldn't they have found a better script or at least edited it before filming began? Or perhaps gotten a professional script writer. What a disappointment.