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Star Wars - Episode II, Attack of the Clones (Full Screen Edition)

Star Wars - Episode II, Attack of the Clones (Full Screen Edition)

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Rating: 3 stars
Summary: It's not THAT bad...but still...
Review: Ep2 was considerably better than Ep1. However, it does not come even close to the sheer brilliance of the OT. The special features are OK, but if you want really good extras, get the Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings Special Extended DVD Edition. The only reason this gets 3 stars instead of 1 is because of Yoda and Saruman...er I mean Count Dooku (Darth Tyranus sounds better) and the Jango/Obi-Wan fight. The acting (especially by Anakin and Padme) was horrible ("I truly, deeply, love you" c'mon!)
GL should take a lesson in screenplay from Peter Jackson and his LOTR team. And he should let PJ direct Ep3 (or at least the guy who did ESB). WETA Digital should do the Special FX, ILM has lost its touch. Gollum in The Two Towers makes Yoda look like a cardboard standup. I just hope that Lucas releases the OT DVDs seperately from these. For now, I'll stick with LOTR and the SW Expanded Universe novels. (Waaaaaaaay better than the PT could ever be. Read the New Jedi Order!!).

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: My favorite High School play
Review: The whole movie is like watching a high school play with really cool special effects. Sets up for the next movie very well, but the only reason IV, V, and VI were good was due to the chemistry between the characters. Here, there are no characters, just high schoolers.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Attack of the Clowns
Review: This movie was just plain bad. I thought that the acting was come of the worst acting I've seen in awhile. After watching some of the special features on the DVD, I know why the acting is bad... it's because the voices are DUBBED.

Don't buy or even watch this movie. Stick to the original Star Wars movies.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: This Movie Is Pretty Bad
Review: One thing, please stop the fight for full-screen and wide-screen it is kinda bogus now....

I enjoyed the special effects and everything, but this was mocking all the Star Wars movies before! They had a bad actor to play Anakin! You could make a better Anakin by grabbing Mike Myers and put robes on him! The only reason my father bought this was to try to get the full collection of Star Wars... This movie did not have the thrill of Star Wars Episode 5 or the excitement of episode 6...You think if Episode 1 actaully was good then Star Wars Episode 2 might be a little better! I'm sorry but this movie was not good! I give it 2 stars for the effort they put into it.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: OK movie
Review: Attack of the Clones is definately better than The Phantom Menace. I watched episode 2 in theaters and liked it. The action scenes were great but I cringed everytime Anakin and Amidala were on screen together. The lines that were given to them sounded cheesy most of the time.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Don't bother
Review: I give this 2 stars because its only slightly better than Episode I. Of course, these won't equal the original trilogy, I don't expect them too. But I do expect a man of George Lucas's talent to at least TRY! This is a pathetic attempt just to cash in on the original trilogy without putting effort into the storyline. The story doesn't hold the viewer's interest, the love story is full of horribly trite dialogue. The battle scenes hold absolutely no interest; they are Rambo-like with the Jedi seeming so invincible that there is no reason to believe in their peril. The characters are bland and the acting not much better. Hollywood seems to beleive that special effects make up for a poor story so they can put any old piece of ... on the screen and get people in the theatres by spending a lot of money on effects. Unfortunately, they are right, which is a sad statement about today's movie audience! But I would expect better from a man who brought us American Graffiti, Star Wars and other great films.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Walk Out
Review: AWFUL! I had heard enough negative comments on this episode to not have high expectations. However, I was unprepared for how bad this movie is. This is a walk out in the middle (or earlier)of the movie bad. The dialogue, acting and plot are pitiful. Even the special effects were more like a computer game than a movie. BY FAR THE WORST of the Star War series. George Lucas should destroy the masters and try again with help from someone who has not forgotten how to start with a good story and hire good actors.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: oh my
Review: I would call myself a neutral reviewer on SW. I certainly enjoyed the first three, but certainly never became obsessed with the trilogy. To be quite forthright, the last two Lucas creations, while good on special effects, lack a certain spirit or soul. One gets the sense that Lucas is just playing with his toys and trying to market to another younger generation.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Deprimente
Review: Parece ser q Lucas se dejo arrastrar por las masas y hizo una pelicula tan rosa y cheesy que solo faltaba cheerleaders.

Solo le doy 2 estrellas por la pelea de Yoda. ASi que si la alquilan les recomiendo que le den FFw hasta el final, y asi no sufriran nauseas.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Far better than Episode I... but more work left to be done
Review: If you, like many, were dissapointed by Episode I, Episode II vindicates George Lucas... partly. The screenplay become a central element of the movie, as opposed to Episode I, where the story was weak, to the point of becoming empty. However, Lucas continues to be (in my book at least) a great director, but not such a great writer. After having watched the movie three times now, I find places in the story that could be vastly improved upon.

As for acting, in spite of the fact that tons of scenes are shot against blue screens totally pack the movie, performances are very well accomplished: in particular Samuel L. Jackson's (anyone surprised by this?). Also you will be delighted by some moments in the movie where C-3PO and R2-D2 bring back the best memories from Episode IV (the first Star Wars, just in case). This time around also the backgrounds are far more impressing (in Coruscant, for instance). Yoda's "moment" in the movie (won't disclose more, in case anyone reading this hasn't seen the movie) is definitely a moment for movie history: it got everyone off their seats in the theaters and will surely do the same with everyone's couches when you play this DVD at home.

On the downside, Hayden Christensen's performance pales when compared to almost everyone else's (although you will find lots of praise for him in the featurettes in DVD 2 of this edition). Also, some battle scenes were not rendered to the high level of quality that Lucas got us used to in Episode I, therefore looking like Video Games in the end. Finally, as for the second DVD in this set, I don't find much justification for it: as opposed to Episode I's, where there was a lot of novelty to the technical portion of the movie, this time around, there is a lot of repetition. Yes, there are some novel tech elements in the movie, such as the 100-percent-digital Yoda, which is a great accomplishment, but it does not justify hours of featurettes and documentaries, which seem to be there just to stuff the set and mark it up.

Like some other reviewer said, this is trully the Star Wars sequel that everyone had waited for, but I sure hope for an even better Episode III, with improved acting, to compensate for an otherwise too-digital movie, if you know what I mean. Plus I wouldn't mind if they only released a single DVD, as long as they end up finally releasing the first three movies in the same format.


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