STAR WARS: EPISODE II - ATTACK OF THE CLONES -- George Lucas, dir

©2002
studio: 20th Century Fox
production company: LucasFilm
dir: George Lucas
cast: Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Hayden Christensen, Christopher Lee, Samuel L. Jackson, Frank Oz, Ian McDiarmid, Pernilla August, Rose Byrne, Temuera Morrison, Daniel Logan, Jimmy Smits, Jack Thompson, Leeanna Walsman, Ahmed Best, Oliver Ford Davies, Ron Falk, Jay Laga'aia, Andrew Secombe, Anthony Daniels
screenplay: George Lucas and Jonathan Hales

On the verge of a civil war, the Galactic Republic is slowly being lead by a nafarious senator, and the Jedi are not able to protect the outlying planets from attack. The young boy from Episode I is now a young man, sent to protect the beautiful queen (now a senator)[whom he loves] from assassination, and his mentor, Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi, discovers an army of clones ordered by a Jedi long thought dead. Jedi and Sith clash again.

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Whiny. That's the word that comes to mind when thinking about this movie.

Hayden Christensen as the future ruler of the galaxy is nothing more than a whiny little brat who lets his gonads do his thinking. Okay, so it's not so different from the majority of high school aged students ... but it's the future Darth Vader!

While I admired the queen's resolve in the first movie, I didn't buuy into her heroics in this movie. I also couldn't quite believe that she'd fallen in love with the petulant boy, six years or so her junior.

The seven minute sequence of chasing the assassin would way over done and un-necessary. I assume it was also a video game?

Some interesting parts to the plot, but over-all a lot of filler to pad a second movie in the series.