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Summary: The Best Lucas Film yet
Review: In a word, awesome! Can't wait till episode 3. The Yoda sword fight scene is incredible and very artisic.
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Summary: Wonderful Fairy Tale -- not for "serious" hound dogs
Review: Lucas has improved on the movie with better editing for the DVD. Eight or nine expensive scenes hit the floor, making a tighter faster action flow. E II would have made another $ 100 MM domestic if it had come out like this.One sad change is the Lucas gave in to the Whining Class and trashed Jar Jar Binks. A brilliant comic character, God's Fool, disappears into a simpleton. Being There is extinguished. Jar Jar on the battlefield in E I was the greatest piece of physical commedy since Chaplin. Non-Star Wars fans will miss a good half of the story. There's no way to understand all of what's happening. Imagine jumping into a Shakespeare "Henry" with no knowledge of English history.
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Summary: Worse than the first, and i thought that wasn't possible!
Review: Horrible movie, i can't believe i was dumb enough to waste good money watching it; considering how bad the first one was. The only good part was the part where Yoda kicked ass, but one can easily wait for it to come out on cable to see that! Don't waste your money unless your a star wars nut. I definintly won't be seeing the third movie.
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Summary: Neat plot and special effects, lame lines
Review: Episode two has impressive special effects and a more interesting plot. And the music is very good. However, there are more than a few unbelievably lame lines that make you feel like gagging. Like when yoda is facing count dooku before their lightsaber fight, he's all "powerful you have become, Dooku, but the DARK SIDE I sense in you." I mean come ON, how dumb is that? It is only one of the lines that deserves a big "DUH!!" Also, the actors in it are really good, but their talent is wasted on these rather shallow characters. Like Padme for example. Natalie Portman plays this senator who is totally stoic and calm the whole time. Sometimes, actors can still convey expression through stiocness, but this does not seem to be one of Portman's talents. Also, Jar jar is still as annoying as ever. But, some things are really cool, like the language of the Genosians, which deserves a comment.
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Summary: The most visually impressive movie ever created!
Review: If you do not love Star Wars: Attack of the Clones for its outstanding acting and flawless screenplay, you are not alone. It doesn't have either. Those two reasons are precisely why I knocked a star off the rating. Perhaps I should have knocked of one for each, but this movie certainly does not deserve that abuse in my mind. The first third of this movie was enjoyable, the second third was slightly dull, and the last third was entertaining beyond belief. Sure the pacing is a little off, but I love this movie nonetheless. George Lucas has successfully taken us to that universe far far away for countless adrenaline-packed adventures and he does it again with this movie. The beginning of the Clone War in this movie was so incredibly incredible that it has to be seen to be believed! It is so true that if Lucas had put even a shred of the effort he used for the movies' visuals into the dialogue and acting, this movie could have been much better. Sadly, Lucas doesn't seem to care much for individual performances however. Only he could waste the talents of such an all-star cast.
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Summary: Not What Everyone Wants, But Good Enough
Review: Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones wasn,t as outstanding as the first three Star Wars movies released, but it was exciting enough to get you to enjoy it's light saber/laser-sooting/force-using scenes throughout the movie. Yeah, seeing Yoda fight was cool, but the movie just didn't have the special ability to awe audiences the way it used to.
The good parts of the movie were that the movie was easier to follow and they took better camera views for the scens which made the movie one of the top-sellers. Like I said, the movie was good, but not as good as one could have hoped for. If you want a movie that you'll want to watch over and over again, this movie just isn't the perfect movie for you.
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Summary: What matters is the movie, and its damn good.
Review: Where Phantom Menace was almost wooden, predictable and even boring, Episode II breaks out with a much more engrossing plot, that actually makes sense and builds to the pivotal Episode lll (sidenote: expected out in 2005). The special effets are dazzling, dialouge much improved, and the actors are much more comfortable with their characters (and having english horror vet Christopher Lee doesn't hurt). The plot goes as such: the galaxy is continuing to crumble under political turmoil, a growing serparist movement and even the jedi are lessening in numbers. To go along with this, Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christiansen) is fast becoming a great jedi, but also has a rebellious, eccentric side that makes him butt heads with his mentor, Ob1 (Ewan McGregor). But when an assanation attempt on Senator Amidala (Natalie Portman, thank you Jack Osbourne for helping me remember that name) Anakin is assigned to protect her while Ob1 goes after Amidala's assansins. but he soons finds himself caught in a plot against the Galaxy that has been in the making for many years. All the while, Anakin is falling for Amidala. George Lucas realized his mistakes from the last film, and brings in screenwriter Johnathon Hales to help with the dialouge which isn't perfect but it is still well done. As I said before, the special effects are unbelivable, made even better here because of its digital recording. I don't really look at the special features, so you'll have to go somewhere else for someone to review those. But the movie is fantastic and that is what matters.
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Summary: yawn....
Review: I enjoy sci-fi movies including the early Star Wars films. This latest Star Wars movie must have been made by the merchandising department as I find it hard to believe that the George Lucas we know from his earlier works made this one. Even the early work, THX 1138 shines in comparison.
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Summary: Much Better Then The First - And - A Good DVD!
Review: STAR WARS EPISODE II: ATTACK OF THE CLONES is not out on DVD. The quality of the sound and the direct digital transfer is amazing. This movie is far superior to The Phantom Menace for two reasons; A) A tiny bit of exposure to Jar Jar Binks and B) this one has a story. Now performances not withstanding - the visuals and dynamics of the scenes, sets and stunts is absolutely amazing. George Lucas (Raiders Of The Lost Ark, American Graffiti, THX 1138) took more time on this film and really explored the characters. As Senator Padme, Natalie Portman (Zoolander, Mars Attacks), gives the best performance. Followed by Ewen MacGregor (Moulin Rouge, Black Hawk Down, Trainspotting) who although doesn't have a lot of character acting - does some amazing performing knowing that practically every scene he has - he acting against a giant blue screen. Very well done and he is intense. Now the star scene and performer in the whole film was a completely digital character. Yoda (voiced by Frank Oz - Miss Piggy and Fozzie Bear) has the most incredible battle of Light Sabers with Counselor Dakoo played by Christopher Lee (Lord Of The Rings, The Three Musketeer). The scene is intense and shows an enormous about of wisdom, passion and power that Yoda has. The weakest performance for me was Hayden Christensen (Life Is A House) who performed much more believably in Life Is A House then he did in this film. Jango Fet played by Temuera Morrison (Vertical Limit, Six Days Seven Nights) gives a much more convincing performance as the bounty hunter along with Samuel Jackson (Pulp Fiction, Unbreakable, Shaft) who really portrays a wise and experienced Jedi. The DVD extras on this one are worth every penny. The Documentaries are great and the educational value of computers and editing is worth watching. There are deleted scenes and the commentary by George himself and the filmmakers. The interviews and behind the scenes production commentaries are both interesting and funny. It also gives you a great perspective on what it takes to make a movie like this. This is a good Scie Fi film to have in your collection and with the exception of Anakin (Haydenson) the movie is fast-paced, interesting and visual candy for the eye. Get this one! (11-26-02)
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Summary: All the money in the world can't buy a real story.
Review: The original Star Wars trilogy really wasn't that good, as movies go. The first installment was a B-movie dressed up in special effects that were, at the time, dazzling; it was fun, but has failed to maintain its luster with age. Watching it recently, it seemed to me little more than a long sequence of scenes of bickering. "The Empire Strikes Back" was more ambitious, albeit pasted together from other sources and as such a trifle hackneyed. "The Return of the Jedi" was, to put it bluntly, a marketing ploy disguised as a film. It was disappointing, upon viewing "The Phantom Menace," to find that George Lucas was still in "Return" mode--plot points and characters specifically designed with action figures and video games in mind, an incoherent plot, characters drawn hastily and lifelessly, dialogue to make one cringe. The dialogue in "Attack of the Clones" is wretched; the characters are wooden and lifeless. At no point was I ever particularly concerned that something bad was about to happen to someone--not because of any lack of danger (one of the main characters was killed off in "Phantom Menace," after all), but because I honestly could care less about anyone in the film. While the filmmakers may promote the "love story" supposedly at the heart of the film, I defy anyone to claim that they actually remember any of the lovey-dovey moments with anything resembling fondness. Hayden Christiansen and Natalie Portman might be decent actors, but the script they're handed here makes it impossible to tell. Similarly, George Lucas demonstrates once again that while he is capable of infinite care and attention to detail when it comes to the appearances of his aliens, the quality of his special effects and the flow of his action sequences (one need only view portions of the documentaries on the second disc of the 2-DVD set), he hasn't the time or inclination to bother telling a coherent story, or drawing up characters you want to remember even minutes afterward. This set of Star Wars films is in desperate need of a Han Solo, or anything remotely resembling a normal human being. That said, you are probably not considering buying or viewing this movie to see great cinema. You want to get on the latest thrill ride from Lucasfilm. You want to see over a hundred Jedi Knights, light-sabers flashing, in battle against thousands of battle droids; a wild hovercar chase among the skyscrapers of Coruscant; a fierce laser-blaster battle between droids and clones; most of all, you want to see Master Yoda in action as he duels the evil Count Dooku, first with sorcerous powers, then with light-sabers. Your enthusiasm is not tempered by the fact that Yoda's battle lasts all of 30 seconds; that the effects and computer animation used to accomplish all of this are now ho-hum stock-in-trade for action films; that several scenes (particularly anything involving a caped figure flying at high speed outdoors) could just as well have been filmed with 1970s technology (they look that bad); that it is never particularly clear why Count Dooku is so evil, or why anyone wants to assassinate Senator Padme Amidala, or...oops, there I go again, expecting more than I should from my thrill rides. Seeing the latest "Star Wars" installment is a ritual by now; you owe it to your childhood (or whatever memory you have of 1977-1983) to see the new flicks at some point. Why anyone would want to own this is really beyond me.
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