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Summary: The Force is BACK!!
Review: I'm a big fan of Star Wars. Attack Of The Clones marks my second favorite Star Wars after 'Empire'. I called this film 'The Empire Strikes Back of the prequels'!!
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Summary: Yoda keeps this one alive
Review: from beginning to the end is a good old time and the theater sound was great. though theres some characters in here that are bad at acting and some of the scenes are stupid but the Yoda kicking ass scene is the highlight and also the fight between Obi Wan Kenobi and Jango Fett. the darkside is getting close to AnakinSkywalker and soon Luke and Leia will be born but we all know what happens when he turns bad, basically everyone on the planet except for babies or foriegn people.
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Summary: That two-and-a-half hours went by quickly, didn't it?
Review: This movie was only twenty minutes shorter than Fellowship of the Ring, yet Fellowship seemed to last hours longer. The pacing of Attack of the Clones, while not as sharp as A New Hope or The Empire Strikes Back, was head and shoulders better than The Phantom Menace and both Lord of the Rings movies -movies that each have a long, plodding, unnecessary scene that bogs things down. I only wish Lucas would release the IMAX cut which was only two hours long.By now, even the less intelligent among us should know what to expect from a Star Wars movie. Hokey dialogue, tongue-in-cheek acting, over-the-top Wagnerian music from John Williams, and one celluloid valentine after another to John Ford, Akira Kurosawa and other old-time moviemakers. If, after The Phantom Menace, it looked like Lucas had watched Shane a hundred times; Attack of the Clones proved George L. must have watched The Searchers two hundred times! I can't for the life of me understand why people who didn't get it after the first two movies even bother with the newer ones. You know what you're getting. If it's not your cup of tea, why bother? Attack of the Clones is far from perfect. The "Sound of Music" scene was cringeworthy. Natalie Portman is hopelessly miscast. She appeared all of fourteen years old in The Phantom Menace. Clones is set ten years later and she still looks and sounds fourteen. I think a more mature (or mature-looking) actress would have been better. Samuel Jackson and Christopher Lee give performances that border on ham. Williams' score is chopped up: Why not wait two weeks, give Williams a finished print, and let him score it? Or better yet, edit the movie to fit the music. However, the big problem with the prequels is that anyone who has seen the originals already knows what's going to happen. In spite of this, Lucas manages to make things suspenseful and even throw in a few surprises. The movie is thrilling, surprising, humorous and best of all, FUN! -a rarity thes days, when adventure movies take themselves more seriously than they should. No, Attack of the Clones will not cure cancer, bring world peace or even help 30-something Comic Store Guy wannabes get back their lost youth (youth that was lost by spending too much time in comic shops). But it was a lot of fun and worth watching again and again.
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Summary: Flawed but fun
Review: This second outing in the Star Wars prequel trilogy improves some of the flaws of the first prequel in the series. The story takes place ten years after the events of "The Phantom Menace" where Darth Maul met his demise. Anakin Skywalker is now nearing adulthood and is assigned to protect Senator Padme Amidala from vicious forces from rebel republics targeting her. Anakin however finds himself falling in love with Padme but at the same time is becoming increasingly at odds with his mentor Obi-Wan Kenobi and his dark side strengthening. The graphics are excellent as usual and the action fights are awesome. However there are problems, Hayden Christiansen's acting is rather awkward and his character comes of sounding more like a whiner than a blossoming evil. I am among the many who absolutely despise Jar Jar Binks. I don't necessarily wish death on a character but killing Binks off would be a good idea. This is a great movie and one to own. Just don't expect a powerful epic like the original three.
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Summary: is THIS what star wars has become?
Review: all things considered, i thought this was a good action movie; the plot while virtually non-existant, left plenty of room for special effects, and climactic battles. the problem here is that while "empire" could well be studied in film school as how to tell a story, "clones" should be used to demonstrate how meaningless a film is with attemted acting, and uncreative writing (doesnt that "sand getting everywhere" line just sum it all up).but wait, star wars didnt start as a formula driven 2hour long series of commercials ment to built up hype for the latest toys, video games, action figures, ect, instead it began as real films, that told stories, that put together some of the best lines and greatest visuals weve ever seen. but now, GL, the little man he is, has gone back in time to ruin the classics with the imfamous special editions. oh well, jar jar doesnt show up in the OT, so at least we can be assured one "kodac moment" in ep3.
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Summary: Good thing about this film? I saw it in theaters for free
Review: I agree with every other reviewer that gave this movie only one star...and might I add I only give it one star because its the lowest score I can give. Its been all said before, I can only repeat it: Anakin was acted with zero talent, Natalie Portman gives an awful portrayel of Amidala in this one (her scream of pain was one of the most fake screams I've ever heard), and the dialogue/storyline just flat out stinks. There is so much more though...I seriously doubt George Lucas put any creative effort in making this film. Play a game with your films and try to figure out how many films Episode II rips off. I'll help you out: Hard Boiled, Black Hawk Down, Blade Runner, Gladiator...and countless others I would need a few pages to list. The battle scene at the end between the clones and the androids was one of the worst battle scenes ever put on film: a big mass fighting a big mass. Are you telling me the special affects team couldn't put some effort into trying to at least make the battle scenes look SLIGHTLY like they would happen in real life? The scenes in the original Star Wars Trilogy had the feel of war as it would really happen in the future, but this film apparently thinks the future is made up of people with zero military skill. Also, I hated the CG Yoda. I know the fight at the end wouldn't be the same with a puppet Yoda, but seriously, he looks blatantly CG. Also, did George Lucas have to CG almost 80% of the cast? Even the Imperial Stormtroopers are CG! Mr. Lucas...just because you CAN CG doesn't mean you SHOULD... I liked Episode I, I'll admit...but I still hated this movie. Lets just forget this had any thing to do with Star Wars...at all...
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Summary: Neither Great nor Terrible
Review: To me, "Attack of the Clones" was neither Great nor Terrible. I went expecting some pretty lights, some good fight scenes, and basically dumb, fun entertainment. Though the movie has definite flaws, I was not disappointed. There, now you don't need to read the rest of this. I suppose I might go into at least a little more detail. Let's start with where the movie went wrong.
The dialogue is bad. Not just regular-bad, either. This dialogue is Vogon poetry-bad - painfully bad, of the sort that could be considered a form of torture were it not that we saw the film voluntarily. Attempts at humor fell flat with a wet thud, with the exception of one line - Yoda gets the only truly funny line in the film. Lucas needs to either stop writing dialogue, or stop trying to direct actors in speaking dialogue. Probably both. He's not especially good at either.
The plot is contrived to the point of absurdity. Suspension of disbelief is fine, and I'm pretty good at it... but Lucas seems to want us to set aside all sense and reason along with disbelief. Sorry, doesn't work that way. I can suspend my disbelief until Kingdom Come if it makes sense... this stuff just didn't. The John Williams score deserves special notice... because it is one of his worst ever. I don't know what he was thinking here (or what Lucas was thinking in making the music pretty much omnipresent), but I've never heard music for a film with a good-sized budget that was so inappropriately-used, and so flat-out bad. Cues that represented characters in the wrong places, themes used in places where they really shouldn't be, music in scenes where there should be none, and (rarely) no music in scenes that should have had it. Williams' scores from the previous year ("Harry Potter" and "A.I.") were just sort of dull, while his music for the more recent "Catch Me If You Can" was some of the best of his career. The score for "Attack of the Clones," however, can only be considered annoying. Lucas' dependence upon digital effects is one of his new weaknesses as a filmmaker. Making Yoda fully-digitized was probably the biggest mistake, making the water on the cloners' planet all-digital was another. Neither came off well. Yoda, frankly, looked more convincingly lifelike as a puppet. Making him all-digital, all the time just sucked the life right out of him. Lucas and his special effects team could learn a few lessons from Peter Jackson and the "Lord of the Rings" crew... they used digital only when it was the best solution, and even then it was generally used only in combination with several other techniques. And yet, there are many entertaining aspects of "Attack of the Clones" that mostly balance out its deficiencies. The battle scenes are pretty much universally good. Sound design (with the exception of the score) was stunning, with new ship sounds and creature sounds that really worked. The sounds of the seismic charges in the asteroid field (if one ignores the fact that there should be no sound in space) were especially cool. Some reviewers complained about a lull in the middle of the film, but I disagree. I can see where they are coming from, as I too could have done without Amidala and Anakin's picnic scene that just wound up stuck in the middle, but overall I felt that it actually had a pretty good balance of action and dialogue throughout, even though the dialogue was horrid. One of my favorite scenes, which nobody seems to talk about much, was the chase between Jango Fett and Obi-Wan in the asteroid field, a thrilling ride in any estimation, I should think. The real payoffs are at the end of the film, though. Mace Windu's battle with Jango Fett was short, but perhaps the best-choreographed in the film. It's what a real Jedi should be able to do. Nice to see Samuel Jackson kick some butt, the way he's supposed to. And of course, the battle between Yoda and Tyrannus... a fight I've been waiting to see (in some form or another) for four films, since I first saw Yoda. I always suspected he could kick it, too, and I was not disappointed. His "Force" duel with Tyrannus was a nice buildup, the lightsaber duel afterwards simply rocked. Then Lucas goes and almost ruins that, too, by making Yoda do something really stupid. A lame ending to an otherwise excellent fight scene. Making a "wise" character do something stupid like that is yet another plot contrivance, one of many. But the scene was still fun... just not believeable or consistent. So, if you see "Attack of the Clones" expecting a plausible plot, consistency, good dialogue, well-rounded characters, or meaningful themes, you'll probably be disappointed. If you see it, however, expecting pretty lights, big noisy battles, new worlds, and basically a dumb but fun entertainment, then it's actually a pretty decent movie.
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Summary: Movie was horribly disappointing, even after Ep. I
Review: I had expected George to get the momentum going with Ep II, since there was arguably a lot of setup in Ep I, but he just didn't deliver. I agree with everyone who says that Anakin was terribly acted and Natalie Portman seemed uninterested in the role. the dialogue was crap, as was the plot. The effects were the only thing done well in the film. The only reason I sat through the whole thing was because I paid full price to see it, otherwise I would have made it as far with this movie as I did with Battlefield: Earth.
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Summary: Movie gets a 4, DVD a 5
Review: Let's face it - the movie's not fantastic, but it's pretty good. Yes, the acting is extremely stiff and robot-like. The "love scenes" are hard to believe, as there is almost no spark that we see on screen.
In part this stiff acting was done to match the acting of the original star wars. Go back and watch the original star wars - Luke is annoying, whinny, and generally not a good actor (no surprise that we didn't see Mark in any other major releases).
If Lucas made the new movies as acting masterpieces, well, it just wouldn't work as a series.
So I have some sympathy for Lucas in what he was trying to do. In the end, he went too far in this direction of trying to match the movies together. The acting is too stiff - he could've still matched the movies and not made it this bad.
It's hard to like Anakin in this movie, and you're not sure why anyone would fall in love with him.
But, as I said earlier, the movie still gets 4 stars. The action scenes (which is what this movie is all about) are very well done, with numerous exciting chases through a variety of environments, great sword fights, and amazing special effects. It is leaps and bounds better than episode I. So if you can get past the overly stiff acting, you'll enjoy this movie.
The DVD gets a 5 because of all of the interesting special features found on disk two. In some ways, how they made the movie is almost more interesting than the movie itself.
If you are at all a fan of star wars, I would suggest purchasing this movie. It will be something you will enjoy sharing with your kids, or grandkids someday.
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Summary: I loved it
Review: Star Wars Episode II Attack of the Clones had to be the most anticpated film of 2002. The Star Wars movies are some of the greatest movies ever made and Episode II didn't leave me disappointed. Episode II picks up where Episode I left off. Anakin(Hayden Christensen) is a padawan to Obi-Wan Kenobi(Ewan McGreggor). They must return to Courscant to protect the former queen now Senator Amidala of Naboo(Natalie Portman). Amidala has had assasination attempts on her life and it's up to Anakin to protect her and Obi-Wan to find out who'd doing it. That's all I'm going to tell about the story, because I don't want to spoil it for anybody else. The only knock I had against this film is Hayden Christensen. The guy was horrible at times. Any time he had to do a scene with Natalie he stunk it up. The rest of the time he did well, but if he had to show compassion or love he couldn't do it. It was bad. He did however do a good job in his action scenes and if Portman wasn't in the scene he did well. Ewan McGreggor was great as Obi-Wan. He really is a talented actor that can play a variety of people. He continue's to carry on Sir Alec Guisness's legacy as Obi-Won. He's great in all his scenes and was perfect in the movie except for his mullet hair cut. Natalie Portman was great in the movie. She shined in every scene she was in. She's a great actress and she's hot. I felt bad for her in all her scenes with Hayden though. She did good with what she had to work with in the love scenes. George Lucas should really get somebody to help him, when it comes to writing love dialogue. It was pretty bad. Natalie shined despite that and I adored her in the movie. The action scenes are fantastic. It's so hard to believe that most of them are all digital. In fact the entire movie was filmed digitally. The battle scenes in the arena and outside of it are spectacular. It's a rarity where you get to see thousands of troops go up against thousands of troops. It was great to see all those jedi in action. It was awesome to see all those lightsabers chopping away. Yoda has an awesome fight in the movie. We he came out and pulled his lightsaber out are theater went nuts. You don't see audiences stand up and cheer a lot, but they did there. It's fantastic to see Yoda in action. Props to Lucas for giving us that. The love melody in the movie is great. John Williams isth greatest movie composer to ever live, and he's written another beautiful song. It makes the love scenes a little more bareable. Overall I loved Episode II. It's a great additon to the Star Wars movies, and is 10 times better than Episode I. It's a must see and a must own. It's a film that families and generations will enjoy for a long time.
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