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movie review - Star Wars Episode II - Attack of the Clones

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

I went and saw the first showing of the new Star Wars movie last night. It was an improvement. Quite different from the previous one, and substantially different from the first trilogy, too. I have to say, I'm not sure that anything from "Episode I" matters to this movie, however. Maybe the meeting of Padme and Anakin? Did Qui-Gon ever matter?

Movie making has certainly changed in the last 25 years.

I found myself grinning like one of the kids from South Park for half of this movie and struggling to pay attention to the other half. As far as the series goes: the dialogue in this one (particularly in the weird love story between the psychotic teenage Vader and the (much) older Amidala) was about as bad as Lucas has come up with, which is saying something. I still give it the highest rating in the series since "The Empire Strikes Back". "The Phantom Menace" seems like a dry run up to a movie series, or a pre-prequel. Crazily pointless and just there to please the fans. This feels like the series is going somewhere.

Recommended.