Equal to the OT

Rating: 9/10 (27 May 2005)

Reading through some of the other reviews, I'm rather shocked about the amount of bad mouthing. By all means, the dialog is unintenionable silly at times, but so it was in the in the original trilogy.
In fact I strongly recommend that those who claim the original trilogy is brilliant and this installment crap to go and see the old ones again, trying to step away from whatever emotional connection they might have from their childhood.
Star Wars has always been pure fairy tale "A Galaxy Far, Far Away" people, just as good as "Once upon a time." Heck people by into the "force" "lightsabres" etc. however the possibility that "love" can do things to people physically is just impossible to fathom. Lighten up guys!
Anyway, great set pieces as always, worst bad guy of the series (Grievous) but surprisingly the most emotional effective of the whole series, unless you have some absurd idea the originals were more than they actually wore.
Extremely operatic, bordering on camp (like the series have always done), all in all though close to being the best in the series, due to the emotional content - but still second to ESB I guess.
8/10