A Fitting End

Rating: 9/10 (7 June 2005)

I find it funny so many people judge these prequels by the standard of the first trilogy. Why would you want to compare this movie to the first three. You wouldn't do it to any other movie. It would make no sense. You wouldn't walk out of Madagascar or Monster-In-Law and say "well that just wasn't as good as the first Star Wars trilogy." This is,no matter what anyone says, a very good film, better than most that have come out in the last few years. Yes, the dialog was somewhat old fashioned, but one of the inspirations for the Star Wars films was the old movie serials, so if you fault the movie for that, you've pretty much missed the point. And I'm tired of all these people referring to Star Wars fans as geeks or whatever. I've seen seen people of all kinds at these films. When I saw this one on Memorial Day, there were people ranging in age from newborns to their late sixties. A lady in front of me was there with a couple of friends and they were all in at least their mid-fifties, and she had a blast watching the movie. There was a drop dead gorgeous girl coming out right behind me and one of her friends asked her what she thought about it and she said, "that was amazing!", and she was definitely not a geek or nerd. In fact, I'd be willing to bet that you haughty non-Star Wars fans would chew your right arm off just for the right to date her. To sum up, not a perfect movie. I would argue over a few plot points, and there are some minor inconsistencies, but overall a good job.