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Summary: A wonderful new addition to the Star Wars saga
Review: No, this movie isn't like the original trilogy. It's not intended to be. The whole purpose of Episodes 1-3 are to enrich the story of Episodes 4-6. The conflict is on a much larger scale--the Empire is being organized, Palpatine is seizing control, the Jedi are waning, and Anakin is slowly giving in to the dark side of the force.
There are many things that make this movie great. First, the story was great, and the plot intricate enough to stay interesting throughout the movie. Second, the special effects were spectacular, yet not over-used. Third, the fight scenes were intense and well-choreographed, and very entertaining.
Obviously, the highlight of this movie lies in the battle at the end, when we finally get to see an army of Jedi (something we die-hards have only dreamed about for years) battling the forces of evil. I also really enjoyed the fight with Yoda and Dooku.
Attack of the Clones is a great addition to the growing Star Wars universe. When viewed as a lone movie, it has some noticeable flaws. When seen as part of the larger story, however, those flaws are quickly swallowed up in the epic proportion of the legend that is Star Wars.
This movie is a great entertainer the whole family will enjoy, as well as a classic chapter in the Star Wars saga (for the hard-core fans), and a great adventure for those who just like a good story.
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Summary: Episode II on DVD, just in time for Thanksgiving.
Review: The movie opens years later when Anikan is now 20 years old and is learning more and more about the force. He is already better then Obi-Van. He and Obi-Van is asked to guard the former Princess Armondolla who is now a Senator, while doing so Anikan falls back in love with her which for a Jedi is forbidden. While that is happening something weird is happening in the universe and Obi-Van is sent to investigate. While doing so he finds Jango Fett and an old frind of Master Yoda, Count Duko who really is a member of the Syth. In the end Anikan, Obi-Van and Duko do battle and Anikan loses an arm, then the most spectacular battle occures with Master Yoda and Duko. In the end against Jedi rules and against his master Jedi Anikan marries the Senator from Naboo. Now everything is set for Episode III and the betrayal of Anikan and his turn to the Dark Side and his transfermation into Darth Vader.
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Summary: THIS IS GOING TO BE A GREAT DVD!
Review: I have read articles saying this is going to have specially finished deleted scenes (6 I believe), documentaries, a commentary, 2-disc set and lots more. I don't know all the details but I'm sure starwars.com has more info. Pre-order this DVD NOW! I'm happy I don't have to wait until April til this comes out like The Phantom Menace!
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Summary: What can you say - I'll always love Star Wars...
Review: Obviously this movie needs no introduction....and most people interested in the DVD have probably already seen it (and judging by the sales ranking- preordered it!). The Star Wars universe holds a place in many of our hearts and I was excited to hear Lucas announce his plans for the prequels 4 years ago. ...I didn't get my hopes up for AOTC. ...BR>I walked out AOTC pleasently surprised because it was better than the Phantom Menace, but thats not saying much. Visually the movie was amazing and the sound was first rate- both givens coming from Lucasfilm film picture who stil do it better than anyone else. The story was acceptable (we already know what's going to happen and who the Emperor is!) and the pacing was fine. Of course the dialouge was lacking and the development of Anakin's and Queen Padme's relationship was overdone. Lucas tried to capture the same magic Ford and Fisher brought to Empire, but the chemistry just wasn't there mostly due to Hayden's poor acting. ... The little things and the lack of annoying Jar Jar is what really helped this film. Yoda wielding the stick, and Boba-Fett's dad getting his ... kicked were both pretty entertaining. The whole stadium showdown and Count Dooku fight were great action sequences. Bottom line....is this a great movie-NO.
Is this movie for you if ... you're like most of America and prefer bigger, louder and faster vs. acting, story, and character development - YES
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Summary: "You're everything soft and smooth."
Review: Ok, so that wasn't the best romantic line in history but in real life ppl say corney things in front of the love of their life all the time. I thought the acting was pretty good but not as good as it has been but, the story line was still great and the effects were amazing!!! Especially the war at the end. This DVD will have as much if not more in the special features and deleted scenes so get ready for hours of fun when you buy this. :D
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Summary: Highly Entertaining
Review: First off, this movie was beyond my expectations. Though the acting was not great, it didn't need to be. The whole movie is supossed to be like a 40s or 50s saturday matine. Many critics rushed to attack this movie with all of the negative force they had but never seemed to realize that the ships, the acting, the NAME were all things of those old serial styles. 'Attack of the Clones,' the name itself is outdated...ON PURPOSE. Many people tend to forget that. Secondly, many fans also attack this movie because it contradicted the books. This Star Wars story is George Lucas' and not Kevin J Anderson's (Though, some of his stuff WAS good) or Timothy Zahn's. It was almost as if George Lucas purposely defied the books, which was good. It showed the authors "This is my story and I will not change my story for your pleasure." Overall, you can see this movie on many levels, 1. as an uptight movie critic, 2. a fan and dive into the deeper side of the story by reading between the lines, 3. as a Loyal Expanded universe fan and not enjoy it, 4. or as someone looking for some fun. I happen to be a 2, and 4.
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Summary: Possibly the Best SW episode to date!!!
Review: I've read that many of the "fans" were disappointed with this latest installment in the George Lucas saga of a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away... well, its too bad for them, I guess. This is probably the best film in the series since "The Empire Strikes Back", my favorite of the VADER Trilogy. I loved the action, the acting (this probably had the best in the saga), the visuals, and the story. Lucas knows what he's doing, folks, and he's doing this for himself. Not the thirty seven year old sci fi nerds in the wet spaces of their parent's basement, writing their own fantasy dreams of the way they see things SW related. This is Lucas' baby, its his story. And I can't wait till I see Episode III and the work he gives us later on. And I most definately can't wait for this DVD!!!
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Summary: star wars sequel
Review: When I first seen "star Wars - Episode 1: The Phantom Menace" in theaters in 1999, I just had to rush to the movies and catch Episode 2 when it came out. I've been a fan of the other Star Wars movies for quite sometime, but this one shows more new characters who wasn't in the first one. And of course, there's a few returns like Jar Jar Binks in a cameo appearance. Just to name some new villians are Jango Fett (Teumera Morrisson) and Count Dooku (veteran actor Christopher Lee). All the battle scenes, like the space chase between Jango Fett & Obi-Wan Kenobi and the stadium fights, are very spectacular. Even the lightsaber duel between Dooku & Master Yoda was pretty decent. I'm also looking forward to getting this on DVD, and looking forward to seeing "Episode III" in theaters whenever it comes out.
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Summary: I have a good feeling about this
Review: First, let me speak to that timid, timorous voice of fractured expectations haunting our skulls since TPM. Shush! This is the movie we've coveted in the holiest of holies of dreams since millions of Ewoks (disappointingly) failed to be pulverized by a hail of superheated Death Star debris. From the first moments after the disappearance of a crisp screen crawl, this film flies directly into its relentless quest to saturate our senses with shockingly delicious imagery. Gods below! What special FX! I can only imagine a wholesale re-staffing (or a group consciousness-raising exercise, perhaps involving some belladonna-like alkaloids) taking place at ILM! Gone are the super-slick, lovely-but-affected 'ILM grays.' This film is textured down to fractal levels of detail. It has grit. It has contrast. It has heat distortion from engine ports, glittering droplets of rain, hypnotically languid waves on a low-gravity ocean, quick, shaky photo-journalistic zooms during apocalyptic battle sequences with chips and scratches on helmets in the far background while hundreds of dust-smeared blaster bolts tear through heavy metallic hides of immense space ships and... GAH!! No words...should have sent a poet! Typical. I had to start with FX. These are what immediately kicked me in the arse and convinced me that ILM had, once again, set the bar to an entirely new place! What truly gripped me, though, was that there was actually a MOVIE attached to those blazing visuals. A damned good one. Who'd a thunk it? This is a morally, politically, emotionally, and tactically complex film. Sure, it keeps you bouncing in your seats and yowling like Slim Pickens riding that bomb (short cut to mushrooms? Sorry.). What it also does, though, is tell a rich, layered, sobering, authentically moving tale. It is the story of things passing away. MILD TO MODERATE SPOILERS AHEAD Christensen's cocky, heedless, impulsive Anakin nails the archetype of the Brash Young Man with surprising subtlety. He's drunk on his power and youth, a True Believer in his myth of personal immortality, Icarus incarnate. He is a Buddhist's (or a Jedi Master's) nightmare! He covets. The pain of his love for Padme is palpable. We feel it in his hungry gaze. This is a boy struggling to find completion, and suffering because he seeks it always from outside himself. Obi Wan won't validate him (one wonders how a certain Middle-Eastern carpenter would have gotten along with his step-dad, Joe...), Padme won't look at him the way he looks at her, while a lost mother haunts his dreams. He yearns, and, when his longings go unmet, he rages. If he is occasionally annoying (and he is!), it is only because we KNOW him. He is an annoying PERSON, not an annoying part, or an annoying performance. We watch as he's maneuvered to the cliff's edge by his own grasping, and feel it, as he is ultimately undone by the strategic fulfillment of his heart's desires. There is characterization here like we haven't seen since TESB. Mad Props to Ewan McGregor! The subtle, non-verbal homages to Sir Alec, first evident in TPM, are just a bit more prominent in this installment. He manages to convey a transitional stage in the maturation of this character which is never forced, never...impersonation. That young bloke can ACT! Obi Wan is focused, authoritative, and NOT to be trifled with. But, too-soon released from his apprenticeship by a star-struck Qui-Gon Jinn, he lacks the depth and experience to appreciate what is happening to his Republic...and to his apprentice. He is troubled by trends he can sense, but can never seem to divert. His fate is foreshadowed in one bittersweet joke, but also in his naïve declaration of victory at a very dark moment indeed. As much of a disservice as it is to the many superb individual performances in this film, I need to talk about two doomed characters of a rather more abstract nature: the Republic and the Jedi Order. Their fates are joined, and the feeling of their deterioration pervades the film. They are set in their ways, confident in their power, and entirely blind to the rot growing from within. Only Yoda seems to see it. Imagine the Dalai Lama's rueful resignation as he watched the Chinese advance on his land. That's the sense you get from Yoda's surprisingly unobtrusive CGI face as he contemplates an Order grown so decadent as to declare primly that "if it isn't in the archives, then it doesn't exist." His gradual awakening to the fact of an end-game to whose beginning he'd been completely oblivious is a wrenching sight. He realizes that someone's manipulated the motivations and vulnerabilities of his Order, his society, and even himself, steering them toward choice point after choice point, positioning the players so that the only possible decisions are those which push them closer to their inevitable ruin. And he is sad. (And he is one [tough] little green dude with a saber. Nuff said.) It's been said (Plato? Frank Herbert? Thucydides?) that democracies inevitably deteriorate into oligarchies...and that dictatorship is not far behind. Lest we huff and puff too righteously against such heresy, let us pause and contemplate the French Revolution's fate. Or else, just go see AOTC. Lucas' rumored disenchantment with, and grim prognosis for, the state of modern democracies is in full force here. The viruses which effect this fatal mutation in the Old Republic are the calcification and corruption of bureaucracy, the ruthlessly pragmatic avarice of banking and trade conglomerates, the crushing juggernaut of technocracies...all quietly subverted and maneuvered by the insidious (pardon pun) Will to Power. There is some extraordinarily mature (and eerily familiar) political commentary here, light years from the desiccated, two-dimensionally technophobic sketch of TPM. Machiavelli would be proud of the way in which, bit by bit, even the wise are enticed to give away power, ignorant -until it is too late- of how that power has been channeled into fewer and fewer hands, till the only one left is the one with the leash.
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Summary: Amazing prequel
Review: This movie was spectacular. The new worlds (Kamino and Geonosis) are visually great and the action scenes could not have been better. The final 30 minutes of the movie is something more amazing than anything you have ever seen before. The Geonosis battle between the Jedis and thousands of super battle droids, followed by the arrival of the clone army and the duel between Dooku, Yoda, Anakin and Obi-Wan. This is Star Wars at its best.
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