Put this one beside Matrix Revolutions and various other crappy sequels.

Rating: 3/10 (4 October 2005)

I enjoyed the special effects, I really did. But that's not the reason I went to the movies to see it. I went because I was interested to see how George Lucas would wrap up the series. I was shocked. Who wrote this crap? I kept saying to myself as I watched it.
-This next part contains spoilers-
The opening scene was OK, but it had no feeling to it like the starfight at the end of Return of the Jedi did. Sure it was one of the best special effects spectacles i've ever seen, but for some reason I was bored after the first minute. Then I was really shocked by the time they infiltrated the ship. The droids sounded well enough in TPM and AOTC. But in this one Lucas completely ruined their voices. They sounded like something off of a cartoon, not soldiers. Then, Anykin proceeds to completely annihilate Dooko, who in AOTC beat the crap out of anykin and rivaled Yoda as a swordsman. In this one, anykin dozen't seem to be any more powerful, Dooko seems to have gotten older or something. They make the excuse, "My powers have doubled since we last met, Dooko". Oh come on, if you're going to say that, at least act like it.
And I applaud the flash artists at Newgrounds.com for portraying just how much of a failure this movie was. Many-a-spoof did i see pop up about this movie, and the message behind all of them I supported. One of them emphasized how expendable the various bad-guys are. Maul is underused and died relatively quickly, surprisingly at the hand of Gin's apprentice while Gin lies on the floor dead and later is burned; Dooko who only appears halfway through AOTC who owns Anikyn and Obiwan and drives back Yoda and dies a pitiful death in the beginning of ROTS, and don't even get me started with General Grevice. He dies on the second scene that he is introduced. And the whole four lightsaber thing was a bit over the top.
Anykin's decent to the dark side happens a) too quickly and b) for too stupid a reason. Even an idiot with half a brain could tell that that guy was lying about the powers to stop one from dying. And then, directly after killing Windu and feeling remorseful, he proceeds to go kill a bunch of children while a few hours ago he would never have considered it. And, overall, the lines were crap. I almost fell on the floor laughing when I heard the timeless villain Darth Vader in his voice scream "NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!".
And, last, but CERTAINLY not least, we have all of the transitions. All I want is to sit down and watch a cool lightsaber duel, not get cut off in the middle of it to watch another scene taking place simultaneously then keep switching back and forth. This is something that has bugged me throughout the first and second prequels. And the transitions are pretty stupid, too, like something I can easily make in Microsoft Powerpoint.
I sure hope this movie gets remade...