INITIAL GUT REACTION: More of the same as in Episode one... although this film feels much darker and there is a total lack of "Fun" and "Joy with this one. George decided this time to get the Latino and Polynesian vote by creating new roles. And once again he had a horrible time dealing with emotions and people. The relationship building with Anakin and Amidala is so bad it's almost comical. Once again he broke the bank on CGI... too many and too video gamey yet again.And this time... I saw at least three homage's: Bladerunner, Sound of Music and Gladiator... and for a second straight film, bad attempts at all three.
STAR WARS MYTHOLOGY: This time it's a little more interesting because I've seen one followed by two in the same day and you can start to see the connection a little closer. However that being said, I still feel their doing so much to set up more down the line and I don't know that it fits in the story, but I feel Lucas felt he had to punch more in to start setting up the rest of the series.
STORY: This film is much more darker than episode one and it's muddled in the middle with a bad attempt at developing a love story. There is very little humor or fun in this film and I think it takes itself far too seriously... almost to the point where I really don't care about the characters or the development of the story at all.
CHARACTERS: Seeing them back to back in multiple movies, the villains are looking stagnate and I did not buy Anakin growing into a teen at all. By my math he would be about 16-18 and Amidala would be realistically closer to 28-30 even, which would make her a very futuristic cougar if you will.
ACTORS: They gave Samuel L. Jackson more to do and wasted another big name with Jimmy Smits. Hayden Christensen was better during his darker moments, but probably not the guy I would want as a lead. Natalie Portman DID look very hot in her "White outfit" she wears the last part of the film.
THE LOOK OF THE FILM: Blu-ray DVD... awesome. More over the top CGI and it's becoming harder to watch frankly.
THE DISC ITSELF: Nothing too fancy with this one, just the film and then audio commentary.
THINGS I LIKED: You can start hearing some themes in the John Williams score now that are huge in the last three films and are some of my favorite pieces he's written.
ALL IN ALL: I felt warn out by the end of this one and felt that the series is getting darker and darker and I'm not sure it had to.
OVERALL ALL GRADE: An F
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