8 GOOD & BAD things about the new film
1) The Action Scenes – It seems Lucas decided to turn up the action to please the fans who were disappointed in the talky narrative of Phantom. And he delivers in kind. The action saves the movie and will make for repeat viewings with many fans.
2) Special Effects – The CGI still has the look of a façade but it sure is colorful, well designed and there are over 100 set pieces.
3) Yoda – Finally, the little Zen Muppet gets to show his stuff.
4) Light Saber Fighting – In a few scenes there are so many light sabers flashing in sequence that it’s like you are watching a choreographed light show symphony.
5) Jedi Count Dooku - Christopher Lee, as the evil one who takes on the Jedi, ups the stakes on every actor in the film when he's on screen.
6) The Transitional Wipe Editing – Lucas utilizes every kind of screen wipe (left-to-right, right-to-left, up, down, clockwise) to move from scene to scene. It manages to keep things moving at a non stop but not overly edited pace.
7) Natalie Portman’s Midriff – In the final few scenes the Senator Padmé Amidala (Portman) has a tight white suit that tears and slowly reveals more and more of her midriff.(Hey, nothing like a little inter-gallactic sex appeal for the old and young teens in the audience).
8) New Aliens and Bad Guys – From an Irish kind of bar owner, to tall slim aliens to Jango Fett and to the animals-monsters that try to kill our heroes the new episode features plenty of wacky characters that are sure to be action figures.
1) The Acting – It sucks. Just like in Phantom almost everyone is stiff and seems to be reading their lines.
2) The Love Story – It is the weakest part of the film.
3) The Dialogue - Who wrote this stuff? Wasn't the original Star Wars up for an Academy Award? Now it's all geared toward 14 year old boys.
4) “Yes, Master” – This line is spoken so often by Anakin Skywalker that one begins to wonder if he is the son of the Genie in “I Dream of Genie”
5) Derivative Humor – Some of the humorous lines that come out of the mouths of Obi-Wan and Anakin are the exact same lines that Harrison Ford spoke in the original trilogy.
6) Jar Jar Binks Has Lines – Okay his speech has been cleaned up enough so that it can be understood but does the film need him?
7) Samuel L Jackson Underused – For some reason this great actor gets short shifted again and is made to act like a zombie.
8) The Gladiator Effect – One of the film’s finest action set pieces is – well – a lot like the coliseum scenes in Gladiator.
