almost as it ought to have been...

Rating: 9/10 (5 June 2005)

First, i disagree with the many people who try to finger point "their way" of "what it should have been". There are cheesy scenes & there are rushed up scenes. But it's not the first time. Some complain about the final "noo!" scene and/or how "easy" Anakin is tricked into joining the "dark side". You have two equally insipid examples in the old movies: when Luke tells Leia he's her brother, she look numb & with an headache commercial look uuuh...i've always know it was like that...you must go... or along these lines; when (after trying to kill him) Vader announces to Luke he's his father, we get another "noo!" scene. In this movie a few persuasive lines of Palpatine are enough to trick Anakin; in the old series it was his son plea for mercy to bring him back...you can laugh at both...in this movie he's convinced he has just one way to save his wife and he has never found the "regular" teaching of the Jedis was enough, so... Some of the "badass" Han Solo acting and Leia's grow old FAST Now some will probably say the old ones are 10x better: i just say cheesy or rushed up is cheesy or rushed up, anytime.
Some complain about this movie being for children mostly; some complain it isn't at all for children...
Of course this movie leave as "almost" aftertaste. 1977 is long gone and we must be honest first & admit the first trilogy was equally simplistic by looking at the screenplay...however in 1977 it opened a new universe and a new horizon in mass media entertainment, no longer possible 20 years later for OBVIOUS reasons. Hence the "story" can't be the secret of such success; other movies such as Krull ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085811/) have the same "rescue the princess-evil VS good + a bunch of diverse creatures " thing, yet most people find them insipid.
Some blame this movie for not being a Tarantino or a Batman movie. Well, even Tarantino overdid his awesome "pulp fiction" many times...and this wasn't meant as a Batman movie to start with, so...
I shall conclude saying the old star wars had the charm and the legend of -say- the first pac-man video game. Very simplistic, yet opening a new era. Today, even the most advanced re-vision of pac-man would look laughable to most users, because the game itself is too simple to start with.