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Summary: The worst Star Wars ever, but not bad...
Review: This is the worst, but not horrible at all. There is just something about this one that makes it not good! Is it the corny humor? Could it be the deprived action? Or could it be another version of the Empire Strikes Back? YES! It can be more entertaing to play Super Star Wars than to view this without doing something else! Episode II is cool to pop culture, but that's because they can't see a classic and this is not a classic.
Rating: 
Summary: 2.5 Stars...
Review: Episode 2 is the worse Stars Wars movie to date. The plot was fine but the acting was terrible. John Lucas has a huge budget to work with and could have put together a better Skywalker. That guy fits perfect on the daily "Soaps"
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Summary: NO!
Review: The Star Wars triology was one of the best set of movies I've ever seen, but these two POS movies that were absolutly horrible! 99% digitial [junk] I like the old cheesy master peice with good plots and ACTORS. I like my charaters to live, not some cartoon! this is basically a cartoon, but even toy story was a way better cartoon then this!...
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Summary: Forced, not The Force
Review: The two stars are given to Yoda. He is the only redeeming part of the film. The entire movie was badly written, acted and it was forced. It was over the top even for sci-fi. I mean the part in the begining when Anakin jumps from the vehicle-come on! And Obi Wan is nervous about Anakin's piloting, I thought Jedi's were to control their fear. Duku was not all that exciting either. To tell you the truth I think The Phantom Menace was a better film. Darth Maul was awesome! Duku lacked the dred that Maul brought to the scren. No one can replace Darth Vader but, If Darth Maul had more screen time he would have been a close runner up. I will see the third film just to get some closure but, I don't have very hi hopes. I will probably wait for it to be released on DVD. I was born in 1972, so I am going to have to stick with the Star Wars that I grew up with.
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Summary: Utter Garbage
Review: After hating the film in the theater, I thought I'd give it another try on DVD. Listening to the directors comments where Lucas actually tries to justify and admits that he "really wanted" the scene where Anakin and Padme roll around in the grass and ride on a cow thing, I couldnt take any more. Stick to the original 3 movies, this new era is chock full of fantastic special effects, but the story, acting, plot, etc are all terrible.
Rating: 
Summary: does the trick
Review: somewhere in the middle ninties when i was a pup someone i dont remember (...) showed me that lightsaber fight in the empire strikes back and i was instantly hooked. then back in the day ... i saw the phantom menace movie, it was an almost pointless affair ... to sum it up episode one would have been absolutly nothing without the lightsaber duels, the patches of intelegent dialouge and liam neeson... tyme sure flys, and i was energized and excited to go waste my money seeing Atack of the clones and maybe even buying some of those delightful lightsabers. To say the least i was expecting another jar jar-o-rama ... by the time obie was captured and we saw (and laughed at) anikans mothers cheap excuss of death i thought this was a decent movie, but by the time the full 2 hours had passed i was so impressed with this films recovery (more importantly jar jar was no where in sight) that i proclaim this a stand out chapter in the star wars 2 part trilogy. the movies writers should be shot for the dialouge, in parts the graphics seem corny and natalie portman did not show much skill acting but this movie had it where it counts (action, music, adventure, natalie portmans midrift). things are looking better than ever for episode 3.
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Summary: 5 stars for the trademark, -4 for the movie
Review: Everyone thats interested has already seen this thing, and everyone knows the storyline, so Ill just briefly state my opinion..This movie never had a chanse to live up to its expectations, but this is *bad* thirdrate stuff...Storywise this isnt so much of a surprise, as the first three movies was packed with all the good points there was to the Star Wars universe, what really surprises me is the wooden acting wich even ILMs special effects couldnt make up for, McGregor and Yoda does an okayish job, but the rest of the crew problably have to spend a lot of time on the dole after this spectacle. In addition, the setting and everything that surrounds it looks boring and unnatural, just threwn in there in a resembling style. The atmosphere of the universe is lost, and everything looks like a computergame on a bad trip. I liked the first movie better, because it made a good promise for good sequels, but all hopes seems squashed now, and frankly, it has tainted the first three movies as well..Trekkies can celebrate though, because the Star Wars *epic* has been lowered to a soap standard..Sorry Lucas, this just doesnt make it Im afraid -- Im not even sure wether I bother seeing the last one.
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Summary: What have they done?!
Review: As someone who went to the theater to see the original Star Wars probably 10 times, I have grown up loving these movies. But this one I couldn't even sit through!!! The plot is incredibly convoluted and while the effects are interesting, I couldn't get past how many of the characters were so obviously computer-generated. What was wrong with the good old days of intricate costumes? Give me the cantina scene in the original Star Wars over this stuff any day. The kid who plays Anakin is a horrible actor and all of the scenes between him and Natalie Portman just seemed so stiff and uncomfortable. There is no chemistry between them at all. Oh, and when R2-D2 turned on his jet packs and flew... I had to leave the room. Since when can R2-D2 fly? Ugh. ...
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Summary: THe problem isnt the character but the FX
Review: Every body chooses to focus on the character portrails and acting as the bad elements of these prequals but, I don't think thats the main factor of why these prequals fail to achieve the high standards set by the original Trilogies. The real problem are the computer generated special effects that end up looking to cartoonish as compared to the realistic special effects that the original star wars trilogy had. Thats probably the reason why the acting in these prequals suffer since these actors don't converse with percieved aliens but, to a green screen that is used to create the computer generated life forms. Thats also why there aren't any memorable creatures in these prequals unlike what the old star wars trilogy had such as Chubaka & Jaba the Hut. That aside, I thought the story was decent and the action sequences were done well however, as I said, the reliance on the computer generated effects takes away from the integrity of the star wars series. The original trilogies had man made sculpted models of the space ships & other futuristic facilities and elaborate costumes to simulate aliens which made the whole setting seem realistic. Unfortuantly, the computer generated models in these two prequals lack a good enough texture and detail to equal or surpass the the special effects standard set by the Original Trilogies whos special effects had amazing realism.
I think Lucas should go back to his old formula of putting human craftsmanship into creating realistic scenery & characters and infusing some computer effects along with that.
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Summary: Begun the Clone War has !
Review:
PICTURE
This DVD exibits an outstanding picture quality, there is no noise, pixelation or imperfection, the picture colors are the most natural colours i ever seen on an DVD. There is no compresion artifacs whatsoever on this DVD (wich is visible on some scenes in The Phantom Menace DVD), and is very hard to say if the digital video transfer process has involved some Edge Enhancement (also visible in The Phantom Menace DVD).
This DVD is really a reference in how is supposed to be movies presented on DVD ! You can calibrate an check an Home Theater system with it, for every subsystem, video or audio.
SOUND
The 5.1 Dolby Digital EX (matrixed 6.1) sound is awsome, rich and enveloping, the surround channels is often used, creating deep involving in the action on the screen. As in The Phantom Menace, the overall sound volume in Attack of the Clones is a little low (by 4-5 dB), but that is to allow the LFE channel to thrive in full packed action scenes.
CONTENT
The movie is great, though i was a little disappointed after the first view (not the same as The Phantom Menace, who has blown me away after first view in theater). In comparasion to The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones does not have a musical score strong enough, there is a lot of incidental music and some parts of The Phantom Menace score. The Phantom Menace score was great made, as great as the musical score of the old trilogy. Still, Attack of the Clones is beautiful made, the music is flowing alongside picture, the story is good and if you think that the dialogue is stiff please check the DVD audio commentary made by George Lucas and his fellows from Lucasfilm and Industrial Light + Magic, that will put you on the right track, your bad opinion will be changed from that moment !
DVD RELATED CONTENT
The DVD system of menus is as good as in The Phantom Menace DVD, in some places are even greater, there are some scenes specialy made for the menu, that are never seen on the movie, the outtakes ar still in the same place, at the THX Optimizer, 1138 key code. The second disc has the same layout as the second disc of The Phantom Menace of course, the documentaries and featurets are good, maybe not as good as those of The Phantom Menace, the deleted scenes ar somewhat a little raw, not as finished as those from The Phantom Menace but that will do. There is only one hidden easter egg, not as many as in The Phantom Menace second disc DVD.
CONCLUSION
Overall, a very good movie on an extraordinary made DVD, a true reference !!!
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