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- Actors: Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Hayden Christensen, Christopher Lee, Samuel L. Jackson
- Directors: George Lucas
- Writers: George Lucas, Jonathan Hales
- Producers: George Lucas, Lorne Orleans, Rick McCallum
- Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
- Language: English (Dolby Digital 5.1 EX), French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround)
- Subtitles: English
- Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
- Number of discs: 2
- Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
- Studio: 20th Century Fox
- DVD Release Date: March 22, 2005
- Run Time: 142 minutes
Price : $28.30
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (Widescreen Edition) (2002)
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This film is so awful, I could write a full-length thesis paper about it. What's fantastic to me is how quite a few Amazon reviewers acknowledge faults in the movie, and still praise it with 5 stars.
Attack of the Clones is Star Wars for the Focus Deficit Disorder generation. Lucas has overstuffed sequences with frenetic visuals, hoping to distract viewers into thinking they're entertained, desperately trying to compensate for the lagging, flabby plot and woefully inadeqate characterization. It is truly even more of a glorified video game than an actual film. Wonder which demographic likes Attack of the Clones the most? It's largely 12- to 21-year-old boys who grew up on Nintendo, PlayStation, and X-Box. Sadly, busy unique effects alone do not a amazing movie make. Frankly, the visuals are not even that terrific. There was no show of Force at the Oscars when Attack of the Clones lost the Special Effects trophy to Lord of the Rings.
The biggest flaws in this film center about the scenes amongst Padme and Anikan. 1st of all, the dialogue is atrocious, with wooden actors delivering hackneyed lines and cliches at just about every turn. Honestly, this stuff wouldn't even fly in soap operas. Why must we excuse it in a multi-million dollar movie? Secondly their "adore" story has no believability, and doesn't develop naturally. Annakin is portrayed as a snotty, arrogant, obsessive boy with a violent temper and psychotic tendencies. So, what precisely draws Padme toward him? Plot contrivances are generally awkward or entirely head-scratching. Jango sends Zam who sends a droid who sends worms, to kill Padme? And what is with the title? Attack of the Clones? What attack? The clones don't show up till the finish of the movie, when they are dispatched to defend the Jedi. I will grant the film 1 star for fascinating cinematography and costumes. Also, the fight between Jango and Kenobi is well-choreographed. But give additional praise, I can not.
Most disappointing of all, this film is entirely devoid of the magic infused into the original trilogy films. Maybe Lucas should really have enlisted Lawrence Kasdan, scripter for two of the original trilogy motion pictures, like the most critically-lauded, Empire Strikes Back. Lucas is now attempting to do almost everything himself. He desires total control of the universe, but somewhere during his ten-year-plus hiatus from film-producing he lost his edge. Someday twenty years from now, another director will remake the Episodes 1-III. But it will be awhile. Superior Star Wars prequels are nonetheless "far, far, away..."
If you are ten or under, I can cautiously advocate this film, but if you're more than 14, forget it. This is the most juvenile try at action/science-fiction I've ever noticed. Simply put, it is a pathetic excuse for a movie. It is clear that their special effects consumed the entire price range for the film, and they had no money left more than to pay for actors or a script.
The acting is so negative that it is frankly embarrassing. I felt like I was watching a junior high drama club. "My heart is breaking for you... Yes, but this is a like that can not be". (barf). They are so stiff and the lines so trite that I believe I could obtain two random teens at the mall who could give a far better reading. The script sounds like it was written by a 15-year-old girl who spent the last 5 years overdosing on romance novels.
Unlike the original episode, Attack of the Clones has no enjoyable or humor. It plods along with the negative guys plotting a rebellion though the fine guys attempt to figure out what's going on. There was not one single laugh in the complete film - not counting my chuckles at the pathetic acting and script.
I thought the visual effects had been poor given the spending budget for this film. There had been a quantity of scenes which appeared to have the actors standing in front of poorly painted landscape scenes. Even the indoor shots seemed to have a haze about them.
On a 1 to 10 scale, Attack of the Clones barely rates 1.
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