Arse-faced Emperor

Rating: 6/10 (6 June 2005)

Minor spoiler included: I share the disappointment of many of the reviewers over the speed of Anakin's descent and the inhumane obstetric practices (an audience for childbirth? Please...). I also wondered how it is that when the large spaceship started its nosedive into the planet, everything inside it started falling. Either (a) the ship has artificial gravity of some kind, which must pull everything to the floor regardless of orientation, or (b) the artificial gravity stopped working, in which cast the contents of the ship would fall at the same rate as the ship itself, effectively making the ship's passengers and contents weightless.
However, the point at which the film completely collapsed for me (and I guess for all the other people in the cinema who couldn't suppress their laughter) was when Palpatine emerged from his stand-off with Mace Windu with a prosthetic bottom attached to his forehead. In a film otherwise notable only for its special effects, this has to be amongst the worse make-up design since Jeff Goldblum in The Tall Guy.