Makes The Phantom Menace seem like one long clearing of the throat before Lucas could begin to tell the real story.
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08/13/08
Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002)
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Reviews Counted:214
Fresh:142
Rotten:72
Average Rating:6.5/10
Consensus: Containing more of what made the Star Wars series fun, Attack of the Clones is an improvement over The Phantom Menace.
Runtime: 2 hrs 22 mins
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Synopsis: In the second installment of the Star Wars series, EPISODE II--ATTACK OF THE CLONES, Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen) is now a teenage Jedi apprentice to Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor).... [More]
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Hayden Christensen, Frank Oz
Director: George Lucas
Reviews for Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
Top CriticThe special effects are remarkable, yet somehow numbing, and the film only partly lives up to the promise in the title of Lucas's company, Industrial Light and Magic.
03/05/08
Christensen is a winning mix of sultry and sulky as the now older Anakin, while McGregor is finally beginning to relax as the mentor who understandably refuses to treat his moody pupil like a grown-up.
06/24/06
Top CriticStar Wars fans, prepare to weep with joy.
10/30/02
Isn't it sad that these movies no longer sweep us away, but force us to sit making mental checklists of what George Lucas has done right and what he has done wrong?
05/21/02
Is it as good as the original trilogy? No. But, as we move closer to understanding how these people become those people, it's clear that Lucas' storytelling powers are gathering force.
05/15/02
Top CriticConsistently thrilling and massively enjoyable, Clones redeems Lucas' reputation after Menace.
05/14/02
Top CriticMakes The Phantom Menace seem like one long clearing of the throat before Lucas could begin to tell the real story.
05/14/02
Top CriticChristensen shines at the centre.
05/12/02
Funny, complex and enormous fun.
05/10/02
Top CriticEnjoyable stuff, and a new, if short-lived, hope.
05/10/02
Top CriticIt starts off briskly with some fantastic special effects and a great high-speed chase but then founders on the shores of bad script writing.
07/04/09
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04/29/09
Lucas does not always recognize his limitations. This tends to make films of mixed quality. Still, there is always enough that is excellent to make them worth seeing.
10/18/08
Attack of the Clones emerges looking as bad as if not worse than its 1999 predecessor, thanks to the lame romantic subplot, which is so badly written, directed and performed that it surpasses Jar-Jar Binks as the all-time low point in the series.
08/20/08
This time the exposition is so thick that everyone except acolytes may tune out.
03/05/08
While it lacks the quality of Empire's script and performances, Clones is the most visually enthralling of the series so far.
09/07/07
It is certainly better than the childish Phantom Menace and the final 45 minutes of straight action beat the editing nightmare at the end of the last film.
07/14/07
The magic has definitely been recaptured.
12/06/05
As convincing a job as they, Christensen, and Lee do, they all end up being upstaged by the jaw-dropping skills of a CGI creation: Yoda (again voiced by Frank Oz), who finally gets a chance to show exactly why he has such a legendary reputation.
12/06/05
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