The 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.
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Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002)
67 %
Reviews Counted: 209 Fresh: 139 Rotten:70 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
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). Together they must protect Senator Padme Amidala (Natalie Portman) from a militant group of... [More]
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Hayden Christensen, Frank Oz, Ian McDiarmid
Director: George Lucas
Screenwriter: George Lucas, Jonathan Hales
Producer: Rick McCallum
Composer: John Williams
Screenwriter: George Lucas, Jonathan Hales
Producer: Rick McCallum
Composer: John Williams
Reviews
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
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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 Critic
Consistently thrilling and massively enjoyable, Clones redeems Lucas' reputation after Menace.
05/14/02
Top Critic
Makes The Phantom Menace seem like one long clearing of the throat before Lucas could begin to tell the real story.
05/14/02
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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
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
Clones is far from perfect, but when it clicks, it revives the old spirit that made a generation become so obsessed with all things Star Wars in the first place.
05/18/05
It’s impossible...to dismiss a film with this much stuff: exotic production design, imaginative characters, and a wide variety of digital jedi fu.
05/09/05
It would be easy to say that this film is fantastic and blows away the others, but unfortunately I cannot.
08/13/04
Superior to Episode I -- The Phantom Menace, with its annoying Jar Jar Binks and its dull, galaxy-hopping story line.
06/22/04
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