Star Wars - Episode II, Attack of the Clones (Widescreen Edition)
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Movie Reviews of Star Wars - Episode II, Attack of the Clones (Widescreen Edition)
Movie Review: Love Star Wars !!!
Summary: 5 Stars
I absolutely LOVE Star Wars. Why? I don't know. My friends think I'm weird, because they're more in to chick flicks, (I still like chick flicks too), other than a bunch of sci-fi stuff. This is my favorite episode of the six. I love seeing Padme's next dress, because Natalie Portman is able to wear them beautifully. Hayden Christensen is CUTE, and he seems to be perfect to play a stubborn young Jedi Padawan. The acting, sets, and costumes really work together. George Lucas is #1.Movie Review: Nothing But Five Stars for Star Wars
Summary: 5 Stars
I was looking through some of the negative reviews this received and I thought to myself, "Wow, there are a lot of over critical, stuck in the past, or just plain mean people out there." To start off with, if you are not a Star Wars Fan, do not watch this movie and do not rate it, because you do not matter in this case. I love Star Wars. I love the classic ones, I love the new ones. Why do so many people have such a problem with the last four Star Wars movies? Yeah, Jar Jar is annoying, but get over it. Many people I talk to say that this movie was to slow, boring, ect. I am sorry but Episode IV for all you supposed "Fans" is much slower than this. The next complaint I always hear is about Hayden C. and his "terrible acting." Shut up please with your negative comments. Yes, Anakin is whiny in Episode II, just like Obi-wan is whiny in Episode I, and even more to my point, Luke was more whiny in Episodes IV-V then Anakin and Obi-wan put together. Lucas would not have chosen Hayden as Anakin if that is not how he wanted Anakin to be played. Understand that if you have a problem with the acting, know that it is Lucas who approves it. Episode II expands on Anakin and Padme's love and yes it is a little slow. But just like all the other Star Wars movies, it is a masterpiece. Do not discard this movie just because of a few things you do not like. Without the support of fans where would Star Wars be? Join me in a movement that no longer puts down the movies that should be loved, but are over criticized. Thank you, and if anyone has any questions about my review just email me.
May the Force be with you,
RevAnakin
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Movie Review: I'm a big Star Wars fan - loved it!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is an essential movie to help Star Wars fans see the history of Darth Vader. This movie has a "love story" intertwined in it, as Anakin and Senator Amidala become close and eventually end up getting married. Movie Review: Were I still the child that found the stars in my eyes
Summary: 1 Stars
Except for yoda, and the usual way out sci fi special effects,I am left wondering what the heck happened. Instead of getting better as did the original sequels. Even the acting for most of the characters, except yoda, has gotten worse. Please tell me that more of these chactersMovie Review: Compared with other prequels, this is worth another look
Summary: 4 Stars
ATTACK OF THE CLONES, the second STAR WARS "prequel," has been unjustly dismissed by many critics and viewers; yet of the three, it appears to me the only one that captures some of the original trilogy's spirit. While the well-deserved iconic status of the original trilogy cannot be seriously ascribed to any of the later films (hence my four-star rating rather than five), repeated viewings reveal ATTACK OF THE CLONES to be far more thoughtfully written than either its dismally weak predecessor THE PHANTOM MENACE or its pompous, chaotic successor REVENGE OF THE SITH.
PHANTOM MENACE seems largely to have been intended as a children's film; even the child actor selected to play Anakin was far too young to make the chronology believable, but the apparently intended audience could easily relate to him. With its flaccid, pointless characters and cheap-looking CGI effects done for their own sake, it plays like Saturday morning kids' TV. I note that many of the Amazon reviews read: "My 5-year-old loved it." So if a kids' movie was George Lucas' intent, he was almost successful, although I can't imagine how a kid would react to the traumatic image of the slave-child Anakin being torn from his slave-mother Shmi, the one heart-rending dramatic element in the film--never resolved properly. Except for that image, adults have a very difficult time with this bloated 137-minute unfunny cartoon, its main character clearly the grating Jar Jar Binks--who is given a rather racist characterization.
Episode III--REVENGE OF THE SITH, for all its hype, simply doesn't work because Anakin's reactions are unbelievable. Lured by Palpatine's mendacious promise that Siths can "prevent the ones they care about from dying"--playing to Anakin's obsession, he joins Palpatine/Sidious' violent galactic takeover, even *after* that pivotal promise is revealed as a bald lie by Palpatine: "only one Sith lord has ever been able to [prevent death], but together we *may* be able to save Padme." Anakin's capitulation *despite that revelation* destroys the viewer's belief in the drama. Anakin's seduction is a core theme of Lucas' 28-year project, and to see its key scene written so very unconvincingly is shocking.
In Episode II--ATTACK OF THE CLONES, I feel that we are given the only honestly realized glimpse of a chapter in Anakin's life. One would place his age at perhaps seventeen and Padme's at a youthful twenty-two. Neither have had experience in love, so their pain, confusion, and difficult, awkward verbal exchanges are entirely credible and even endearing. Critics seem to have missed it altogether: Hayden Christensen is accused of being "wooden," but he is tapping into typical teenage experiences of first love--which were perhaps only a few years away in his own 20-year-old life. There is a rare authenticity--which the critics naturally missed. It is only in this film where we believe that Anakin is torn between the Jedi--who show him no respect, treating him both patronizingly and suspiciously, refusing to empathize with the realities of his tender age and hard past life (though "empathy" is supposedly critical in the Jedi credo)--and the possibility of another way, dangled before him through Palpatine's blandishments. The fact that the liberation of Anakin's enslaved mother is not even an issue for the Jedi paints them as abominably callous--and possibly sexist; her cruel death, achingly difficult to watch, and which Anakin is in no position to prevent, would embitter anyone toward the Jedi. It is only by *remembering* these points that one is able to believe in Anakin's final, tragic seduction by Palpatine in the third film, even though REVENGE itself actually sabotages this eloquent groundwork with horrendous writing that logically would have Anakin grudgingly decide to remain in the Jedi fold as the lesser evil, about 70 minutes into the film. With some humorous touches reminiscent at times of STAR WARS (1977), and the unusually careful set-up I described, ATTACK OF THE CLONES must be deemed the only successful film of the three prequels.
Filmed digitally, theatrical presentations, transferred to standard film, were said to be disappointing. Ironically, the DVD is the natural medium for ATTACK OF THE CLONES, and it looks splendid in anamorphic widescreen. Like all the later STAR WARS films, it is loaded with extras, all interesting once, and delivered with an annoying self-congratulatory tone by Lucas and company.