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To: HairOfTheDog
I saw Episode 2 AOTC at the midnight show last night here in Austin. Better than Episode 1 TPM (not saying much there), not as good as Episode 4 or 5, maybe about the same as 6 ROTJ. Overall I had low expectations, especially after LOTR!

Things I liked - decent pacing to the movie, I never got too bored. Several key points to the overall story get addressed, which was cool - since Episode 3 is the only remaining movie it becomes more clear how we get from Episode 2 to 4. It's just plain fun getting back into the Star Wars story after not thinking about it for awhile.

Things I did not like - I'd thought Jar-Jar would only be in it briefly; he was in it for ~8-10 minutes, which was 8-10 minutes too long for me... The writing still was not as good as Star Wars or Empire Strikes Back, or perhaps I'm older and more critical, perhaps both. I'm being a bit picky here - I did not like the cgi Yoda. He was so engrained in my mind as a puppet/however they did it before, and now they try to do a lot more facial expressions and physical movements that he's never done. Just did not feel like the same guy to me, and that was a bit disturbing.

Don't rush out to see this one, but do see it in a theatre sometime. My .02.

Regards.

5,430 posted on 05/16/2002 8:54:59 AM PDT by Ted
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To: Ted
Thanks for the review... Just for grins I went and checked out the board at Waiting for Star Wars website... (two guys in Seattle that have been waiting in line since January - Penny and I saw them there when we went to FoTR at the Cinerama)

The reviews are mixed there. They are arguing about "mistakes"... but the die-hards love it.

5,431 posted on 05/16/2002 9:05:38 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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