sideways wipes.
Plot was fairly well structured on the model of a video game walk-through,
although the whole "save jabba the hutt's baby son from a conspiracy
between count dooku and jabba's drag queen uncle" really messed with my
head. There is also a point where I was sure that they were going to do a
cheesy flashback of anakin and his mommy but instead anakin just looks made
and sad and says he doesn't want to talk about it. First of all, Cgi
looking soulful? Incredible. Second, since when does star wars resist the
temptation to be cheesy, good job.
Actually, there is a really interesting psychological bit: anakin and the
clones are genuinely sympatico. Dakota and I saw an exhibit at houson space
center showing the models they used for this movie and I watched a clip
about the character arc for Anakin's clone captain rex, so I knew it was
deliberate. Its a great retcon, though. It explains why darth vader prefers
to surround himself with storm troopers and has basically nothing but
disdain for the moffs.
Terrible dialog, also natch. Not as bad as jar jar binks but about as bad
as "obi wan versus the snooty librarian"
There are screaming kids in the theatre but I am happy to say that my kids
are not one. The kids are captivated. More so than me at jason's age. And
why not?
