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Posted by: Bluejeanbabe at June 16, 2002, 11:56 pm

Topic: Reviews: Attack of the Clones Forum: JoBlo

I finally got around to seeing AOTC this past weekend and I got just what I was expecting, another dissappointment. I was a senior in high school when the original Star Wars premiered and I grew up in a generation that loved Luke, Leah and Hans, not to mention Chewbakka and company. The last two installments of Star Wars, with all their special effects, hot babes, etc., etc., don't hold a candle to the original three. I like Senator Amadala but where does she store all the luggage for all of those outfits? Carrie Fisher pulled off Princess Leah pretty well with only one outfit. And all of those weird creatures that kept popping up! I was beginning to feel as if I were on the same trip Carrie took while filming episode #4, or whatever it's called now. I always enjoyed the unusual creatures in previous Star Wars but this was just overkill. I think Hayden Christenson did a very good job as Anakien Skywalker. He was convincing with his moments of anguish and confusion as the dark side was beginning to take control. However, I couldn't seem to really get an attachment for him other than pity because I know the fate of his character and what all will have to happen to him in the next episode. As everyone else has said, the stand out performance in this movie was Ewan McGreggor as Obi-Wan. There's nothing I can say about his performance that hasn't already been said. Sir Alec Guiness would have been proud. My overall rating for this movie would be 6/10. It was too long (I was yawning after the first thirty minutes, however the last half of the movie was almost worth enduring the first half), too much political mumbo-jumbo that hardly made any sense (I'm still not really sure whose side the clones are on! Just kidding, I know they are future Stormtroopers, I did figure that much out.), and the chemistry that existed between the characters that made the original three Star Wars such classics has been sacrificed for special effects. Don't get me wrong, I love great effects but I also want to love or at least like the characters also. That's the formula that has made Spiderman such a stand out movie. George Lucas has lost it with his last two installments. One other thing that has had me puzzled in both TPM and AOTC is why does the civilizations in these earlier installments of this saga seem to be more advanced than the later installments 4, 5 and 6? Of course, in reality, it's because our technology has come so much farther but for continuity of the story, shouldn't the civilizations in episodes 1, 2 and 3 be more primitive?

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