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Summary: Star Wars Episode II -- WORST MOVIE OF ALL TIME
Review: Yes. George Lucas has finally done it. He has virtually killed the Star Wars franchise with Star Wars Episode II--Attack Of The Clowns.
I am not surprised that this movie went under the knife when it was released. Although George Lucas was trying to improve this movie from Episode I, he didn't. It is worse than Episode I. MUCH worse. Most critics destroyed this movie from start to finish, and my friend wrote a review of this movie, slamming it as "the worst movie ever released in movie history."
You can say what you want about it, but Star Wars Episode II is an embarrassment to the movie industry (the fight scene with Yoda...wow, those five minutes were spectacularly bad).
The one cast member I felt so sorry for was Natalie Portman. What in the world was she doing in this mess? She knew better than to participate in this piece of junk.
Looking back on this movie, I can't find anything nice to say about it. This movie doesn't deserve any defense, just more assault. It is such a waste, $130 million thrown in the gutter, the biggest cinematic rip-off in history ("Wild Wild West" cost $170 million, so I'm not far off)
The worst and most depressing thing about all this is that George Lucas is already at work on Episode III. How about call Episode III "Attack of the Fans," so that Star Wars fans can throw stuff at the movie screen while watching Episode II all over again?
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Summary: Sell Out
Review: As a Star Wars fan I am greatly offended by these prequels. Just how much of artistic vision can he sacrifice to make money? Special effects do not have enough influence on public these days to totally disregard every other aspect of the movie. It's not very often that I have the urge to walk out of the movie 30 minutes into it. When Episode I came out, I thought that no "Star Wars" episode could have been worst. I realized I was wrong after watching Episode II, which was so much worst. George Lucas needs to find someone else to do writing for him to prevent these idiotic dialogs making way into the movie. I do believe that this movie was meant to be a computer generated extravaganza and simply had characters saying anything to get from one scene to another. In case filmmakers do not yet know this, writing is what makes a good movie. Without it you can have most advanced special effects and the entire cast can be naked and it will still be a bad movie. In addition to bad writing whoever decided to cast Hayden Christensen should be seriously punished. If he is the best candidate after a worldwide search, person doing the searching was blind. Good looks do not make an actor. I've never seen anyone having such a hard time portraying a character. Instead of capturing a character facing a deep conflict, he does nothing but whine and complain for 2 hrs. Casting all together was badly handled. There was no chemistry between these people whatsoever. Love story was so obviously forced that it was painful to watch. All and all, this was a pretty bad movie. Definitely on top of the list of worst movies ever. Sad part is that even had it not been Star Wars this was still a bad movie. The only reason to buy it is to complete the collection and maybe revisit total of 30 min of the entire movie. Lets hope that George Lucas at least attempts to save his name with Episode III, providing that he cares about anything but making more money.
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Summary: Better than the last one
Review: While I don't think Attack of the Clones was a great movie, I thought it was good overall. It was definitely an improvement over the Phantom Menace, which too often seemed like a gloried [toy store]commercial. (While watching 'Menace, every few minutes I half-expected an announcer to say, "Batteries not included."). Most females will probably disagree with this, but I thought Hayden Christensen was a poor choice to play Anakin Skywalker. Since his character had been training to be a Jedi for ten years, I expected him to come across more adult-like, and less like a spoiled, whiny teenager. Still worse was the shallow script writing that went into his romantic scenes with Natalie Portman. On the other hand, I thought that Ewan McGregor and Christopher Lee gave sound performances (given what they had to work with script wise), and that the special effects were absolutely spectacular (which is why I gave it 4 stars instead of 3). The most entertaining scene of the movie was, of course, the showdown between Yoda and Count Dooku. I only wish George Lucas had devoted more screen time to that entire climatic battle between Kenobi, Skywalker, Yoda and Dooku, and less to those sappy love scenes between Skywalker and Amidala.
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Summary: Star Wars is the best movie franchise ever
Review: I went to the theatre 6 times to see this movie, twice opening day. The movie was better than I had expected. The only complaint was Hayden Christianson...he sucks. Other than that the movie was awesome but I am biased and would love any Star Wars movie even if it was the worst movie ever. Cant wait till episode 3.
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Summary: If this movie weren't called Star Wars...
Review: Had Attack of the Clones been the second part of a trilogy that was not connected to the Star Wars world, how many people would even bother to catch the third movie? One of the most fundamental issues with AotC is that the acting is horrible. I presume this is, in part, because of the rigors required to put in as many effects as Lucas tries to cram into his films. But Portman and Christiensen aren't bad actors, they just act badly in this movie. Even Ewan MacGregor, who's normally mesmerising to watch, looks like he's stuck in B-movie hell, posing in front of green screens for a good half the film. While the acting, and the god-awful writing do a lot to take away from the movie, the biggest problem with it is the haphazardness of it all. In an effort to cram in as much "depth" to this story as possible, we're stuck with five or six different plotlines, each ending on a minor cliffhanger every two minutes. The effect of being continually jarred by the incessant cutting from plotline to plotline is that you simply aren't able to get absorbed in any characters, or aspects of the plot for any significant length of time. In the end, the jarring simply serves to numb you from any impact the movie tries to create. ... Lucas, it would seem, simply isn't a good director. Put A-list actors like MacGregor and Portman in the hands of any capable director, and they'll see that what these actors bring to the table is a sense of charisma, and a life that makes their characters interesting to watch. Lucas isn't able to elicit any of that life from these great actors, and he turns Hayden Christiensen into a whiny, self-serving mannequin. The rage that twists Anakin to the Dark Side should have been palpable, but instead, we're treated to the whining selfishness of a spoiled teenage brat. This is the Dark Lord of the Sith? ...
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Summary: Rounding up from 4.5 stars
Review: I saw the Phantom Menace with family, Attack of the Clones with friends, and, aside from those reasons, I adored 'Clones' much more than Menace. The three original Star Wars are what hooked us. They were unbeatable, incomparable, and beyond compare, so asking a whole new movie audience to regard the latest prequels in the same sense as the originals is somewhat difficult; especially after 'Menace', admittedly made for an audience under the age of eleven. That movie had gut emotional appeal, but 'Clones' stars in more arenas than that particular one. I'll be honest- the best acting in the film is probably done by Ewan McGregor, brilliant in everything he touches, from 'Emma' with Gwyneth Paltrow to 'Moulin Rouge' with Nicole Kidman to the Star Wars prequels. His portrayal of a young Obi Wan Kenobi is excellent- we are immediately endeared to Obi Wan [regardless of McGregor's excellent portrayal] because of the Obi Wan we know from the trilogy- Sir Alec Guiness (RIP). Of course, Hayden Christensen, the star, should get a notable mention. Girls everywhere (myself included) adore his eyes and his whole demeanor, but he brought a raw emotion to Anakin- we see a troubled, misunderstood, crowded, hurting man as opposed to the innocent young boy and the evil Darth Vader. For that, we can commend Hayden. The only thing I'd change would be Natalie Portman. She, to me, is NOT Amidala/Padme in the sense that I perceive the character as having a deeply passionate and impulsive nature. Of course, when she is in the role of the stony Senator, she does excellently, but Hayden should have been paired with an actress capable of meeting his own attributes that he brought to Anakin. Of course, see it enough times and the thoughts of 'I should be her!' or even 'someone else should be her!' fade. And, aside from acting, the digital/special effects are BRILLIANT. I do mean brilliant. It will boggle your mind (especially Yoda's, by now, infamous fight scene), and the music is beautiful. The fight scenes steal the show though- excellently choreographed, and realistic but still unatainable. The DVD is an excellent investment in a worthwhile trilogy- all movies American Classics.
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Summary: George Lucas strikes back!
Review: This is, to me,along with "the Empire Strikes Back", the best Star Wars movie, and why? Because it tells the story perfectly, and a bunch of other things.
It is really fascinating to see how Anakin Skywalker, now as a Padawan learner, struggles to control his emotions, either for Padmé and his mother, and for his secret anger.
The acting is much better than "The Phantom menace", and at least I think Hayden Christensen did a well job. And so did Natalie Portman, Ewan McGregor, Samuel L. Jackson, and so on.
One of the things I liked most, and I think everyone did too, was the fight scene between Yoda and Count Dooku. Finally we saw the great master Yoda in action, waving his lightsaber against Dooku's...
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Summary: If you only want special effects this is your movie
Review: Bad acting and a complete lack of apparent plot are the two biggest holes in this movie. The special effects are the only things worthwhile in this movie. I've seen almost all the actors from this movie in other films and they can all do a much better job than would be apparent to anyone who only saw them act in this movie. The romance is extremely questionable, expecially since you would need a bucket of gasoline and a match to get any spark between the two leads. The Jedi come off as extremely dumb, since the major plot point (if you could call it that) revolves around the fact that data is missing from the Jedi library that only a Jedi could remove but there is only one Jedi that ever left the order and the remaining Jedi just blow off the possibility that he may have erased it. Guess what? He's the bad guy! Some of the fight sequences are well done, but most of it has a been there, done that quality that you wonder why you haven't left your seat to sneak into another theater yet.
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Summary: Worse than Episode I
Review: Yes, the universally despised Jar Jar Binks was almost entirely eliminated from Attack of the Clones, and yet this atrocious sequel still manages the seemingly impossible feat of being worse than its predecessor... He used to be a capable director, afterall, he's responsible for American Graffiti, and he has to be given credit for coming up with the Star Wars franchise in the first place, but he is not a writer and this is painfully evident throughtout both Episodes I and II. Acting as writer, producer and director all that the same time, he spreads himself too thin... Anakin and Amidala's love scenes are the most embarassingly bad things to be scene in theaters for a very, very long time. ... If you don't but this DVD will it stop Lucas from making Episode III? Probably not, but we can all hope.
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Summary: A Movie That Proves...
Review: ...all the special effects and computer graphics in the world will never replace a good script and good acting. My hopes for Episode III are quickly diminishing.
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