Now that I've griped about the acting, it's time to talk about the script, which HAD to have been written by a group of ten year old boys, hyped up on pixie sticks. It couldn't have been written by any competemt adult, at least not one with any conscience at all. All the lines were hollow, with maybe one or two good lines that were ruined by the bad acting that delivered them. (This doesn't count Yoda's lines, which are always pretty cool) The scene where Anakin's mother dies is just about the worst death scene I've ever watched, in a laugh out loud way. I swear the other people in the audience must have thought I was on drugs, I laughed so hard. I couldn't help it, it was just so bad! Bad acting, bad script, just an over-all bad scene. Oh and puns, there were way too many puns. If there's one thing that's NOT funny at all, it's puns. Especially ones delivered by a robot.
There were very few things I liked about this film. Obi-Wan was one of them. He was a decent actor, had fairly good scenes, and it seemed like he was getting just as annoyed with Anakin as I was. Yoda was also pretty cool. Short, greenish, intelligent, and kick-ass in battle, what more could you want? There was one cool looking monster, good SFX, but that sort of thing just doesn't impress me at all. Unfortunatly, as out society has proved many times, plot and acting don't matter anymore, just hot stars and good special effects. God help us in a culture where Amadeus Directors Cut is playing in fifty theatres around the US and Mr. Deeds is playing on three screens in each city. :P
