OK time for a bit of lazy bloggery as this is a post I have alredy done last year on this blog but I thought I would add to it a bit more for fun and the post in question is Star Wars Episode II - Attack of the clones.
So let's get those lightsabres ready to kick some droid army ass.....(or something like that!).
And yep as usual... SPOILERS ARE AHEAD!
STORY
So the story is set ten years after the events of Episode I and the Galactic Republic are still in turmoil after their invasion of Naboo by the Trade federation years earlier. And a former jedi knight, Count Dooku (Christopher Lee) has organised a separatist unit against the Republic and the senate is trying to put forth a plan to create an army to help the Republic against the separate threat. Meanwhile former Queen of Naboo, now a senator, Padme Amidala (Natalie Portman) has Obi-wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor) and his apprentice jedi, or padawan, Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen) are assigned to protect Padme after an assassination attempt is made on her. Obi-wan and Anakin chase the would be assassin and corner her, but she is killed by her employer, with a poison dart. Obi-wan soon learns that the dart was manufactured out on a remote ocean planet called Kamino and he goes out to investigate. Meanwhile Anakin is assigned to escort Padme back to Naboo with whom Anakin is already in love with and during their time together they fall for one another.
So the story is set ten years after the events of Episode I and the Galactic Republic are still in turmoil after their invasion of Naboo by the Trade federation years earlier. And a former jedi knight, Count Dooku (Christopher Lee) has organised a separatist unit against the Republic and the senate is trying to put forth a plan to create an army to help the Republic against the separate threat. Meanwhile former Queen of Naboo, now a senator, Padme Amidala (Natalie Portman) has Obi-wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor) and his apprentice jedi, or padawan, Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen) are assigned to protect Padme after an assassination attempt is made on her. Obi-wan and Anakin chase the would be assassin and corner her, but she is killed by her employer, with a poison dart. Obi-wan soon learns that the dart was manufactured out on a remote ocean planet called Kamino and he goes out to investigate. Meanwhile Anakin is assigned to escort Padme back to Naboo with whom Anakin is already in love with and during their time together they fall for one another.
In
the meantime Obi-wan arrives on Kamino where he discovers an army of
clone troops are being created in secret for the Republic by using a
bounty hunter named Jango Fett (Temuera Morrison) as their genetic template. Obi-wan soon
realises that Jango is the employer of the would be assassin and after a
brief fight with him, Obi-wan tracks them after he places a tracking
device on Jango's ship and follows them to the planet Geonosis.
Meanwhile, Anakin is suffering from premonitions of his mother in pain
and he decides to go against Obi-wan's orders and he travels with Padme
to Tatooine to save her. Anakin eventually finds his mother, Shmi
(Pernilla August) in a sand people camp, and she has been badly
tortured, barely breathing she acknowledges her son and dies, leaving
Anakin in a blind rage, he goes and slaughters all the sand people in
the camp and he returns Shmi's body back to her original home. Obi-wan
meanwhile on Geonosis learns that Dooku is creating a new droid army to
fight against the Republic and that Dooku also gave the order on the
attempted assassination of Padme. Obi-wan then relays this info to
Anakin via a hologram and Anakin transmits the message on to the jedi
council, however during the transmission Obi-wan is captured by Dooku,
which prompts Anakin and Padme to go and save him. However Anakin and
Padme are also captured shortly after their arrival and sentenced to
death alongside Obi-wan on a colosseum type pit where they must fight
against large monsters. But they soon manage to release themselves and
are saved by the arrival of Jedi Master, Mace Windu (Samuel L. Jackson)
along with a team of jedi knights and soon the arrival of the clone
army, they begin their battle against Dooku and his droid army...
THOUGHTS
Now I originally said in my previoust post for this film that I felt that Attack of the clones is the weakest of the three prequels. But....I have since changed my mind (having watched it more recently) and I now see it as the second weakest (or second best depending on your point of view!) of the trilogy with the pantomine-esque Phantom Menace taking the top mantle for the crapiest prequel movie. However Attack of the clones is not without its problems but I will get to that a bit later. But at the same time its not all bad either with Attack of the Clones as it still has some engaging fight sequences, such as Yoda's showdown with Count Dooku, the battle between the clone army and the droids on Geonosis, and Obi-wan's encounter with Jango Fett on the sea planet Kamino. The film also was quite innovative in terms of film technology as it was one of the first films to use digital video cameras and HD digital 24-frame system and the cameras even proved to work very well in intense heat, as certain sections of the film were shot in Tunisia. Lucas who was concerned by the critical reception The Phantom Menace met with in regards to the script and dialogue brought in another writer, Jonathan Hales to co-write the screenplay with him, although the dialogue is still pretty cringeworthy in places, but more on that soon.
Now I originally said in my previoust post for this film that I felt that Attack of the clones is the weakest of the three prequels. But....I have since changed my mind (having watched it more recently) and I now see it as the second weakest (or second best depending on your point of view!) of the trilogy with the pantomine-esque Phantom Menace taking the top mantle for the crapiest prequel movie. However Attack of the clones is not without its problems but I will get to that a bit later. But at the same time its not all bad either with Attack of the Clones as it still has some engaging fight sequences, such as Yoda's showdown with Count Dooku, the battle between the clone army and the droids on Geonosis, and Obi-wan's encounter with Jango Fett on the sea planet Kamino. The film also was quite innovative in terms of film technology as it was one of the first films to use digital video cameras and HD digital 24-frame system and the cameras even proved to work very well in intense heat, as certain sections of the film were shot in Tunisia. Lucas who was concerned by the critical reception The Phantom Menace met with in regards to the script and dialogue brought in another writer, Jonathan Hales to co-write the screenplay with him, although the dialogue is still pretty cringeworthy in places, but more on that soon.
PERFORMANCES
Getting onto the performances, there is no doubt that Attack of the clones is a mixed bag, starting with Hayden Christensen, who is very wooden in his performance as the young, arrogant and somewhat tormented jedi apprentice, but another way of putting it is that Anakin is a whiny little bitch! Christensen physically is right for the role but his performance however is just hampered by some corny dialogue and under Lucas's direction he simply cannot make a decent impact with his character, yet Hayden himself has proved in other films that he is a very capable actor (just look at the drama film Shattered Glass and you'll see that for yourself).
Hayden's performance also isn't helped by the fact he has to play his part in a very contrived love story with Natalie Portman and their dialogue is like something out of a Mills and Boon novel! One such example is when Anakin tells Padme of his true feelings for her when they are on Naboo and he says "Now I'm with you again... I am in agony. I'm haunted by the kiss you should never have given me. My heart is beating.... hoping that kiss will not become a scar. You are in my very soul.... tormenting me!". Ughhhh!! Christensen however does fair well enough with the physical fight sequences and he does have a good moment when he fails to rescue his dying mother, Shmi, from the sand people as she dies in his arms, he looks up and his lip trembles with rage and goes outside and slaughters the sand people tribe. And he confesses to Padme later "I killed them. I killed them all. And not just the men, but the women and children too. They're like animals and I slaughtered them like animals! I hate them!!". And to be fair Christensen in some moments shows Anakin's frustrations well enough such as in the same scene where he blames Obi-wan for his somewhat patronising tutelage " It's all Obi-Wan's fault. He's jealous! He's holding me back!". More amusingly though there is an unintentionally pervy-ish moment when we see Anakin have a nightmare regarding his mother and as he wriggles uncomfortably in his sleep it looks like he might be having a wank underneath the covers (which of course he's not....I think!).
On a lighter note Hayden does somehow manage to have relatively decent rapport with Ewan McGregor in their scenes together. Hayden also has one amusing moment as well where on Geonosis he fights the natives and his lightsabre is broken in half and he says "Oh not again! Obi-wan is gonna kill me!". And lastly another lighter scene is when Anakin has dinner with Padme and he tells her a story about him and Obi-wan about a mission they went on and he says "When I got to them we got into aggressive negotiations" and Padme asks "Aggressive negotiations. What's that?" and Anakin says "Ah, well, its negotiations with a lightsabre".
Getting onto the performances, there is no doubt that Attack of the clones is a mixed bag, starting with Hayden Christensen, who is very wooden in his performance as the young, arrogant and somewhat tormented jedi apprentice, but another way of putting it is that Anakin is a whiny little bitch! Christensen physically is right for the role but his performance however is just hampered by some corny dialogue and under Lucas's direction he simply cannot make a decent impact with his character, yet Hayden himself has proved in other films that he is a very capable actor (just look at the drama film Shattered Glass and you'll see that for yourself).
Hayden's performance also isn't helped by the fact he has to play his part in a very contrived love story with Natalie Portman and their dialogue is like something out of a Mills and Boon novel! One such example is when Anakin tells Padme of his true feelings for her when they are on Naboo and he says "Now I'm with you again... I am in agony. I'm haunted by the kiss you should never have given me. My heart is beating.... hoping that kiss will not become a scar. You are in my very soul.... tormenting me!". Ughhhh!! Christensen however does fair well enough with the physical fight sequences and he does have a good moment when he fails to rescue his dying mother, Shmi, from the sand people as she dies in his arms, he looks up and his lip trembles with rage and goes outside and slaughters the sand people tribe. And he confesses to Padme later "I killed them. I killed them all. And not just the men, but the women and children too. They're like animals and I slaughtered them like animals! I hate them!!". And to be fair Christensen in some moments shows Anakin's frustrations well enough such as in the same scene where he blames Obi-wan for his somewhat patronising tutelage " It's all Obi-Wan's fault. He's jealous! He's holding me back!". More amusingly though there is an unintentionally pervy-ish moment when we see Anakin have a nightmare regarding his mother and as he wriggles uncomfortably in his sleep it looks like he might be having a wank underneath the covers (which of course he's not....I think!).
On a lighter note Hayden does somehow manage to have relatively decent rapport with Ewan McGregor in their scenes together. Hayden also has one amusing moment as well where on Geonosis he fights the natives and his lightsabre is broken in half and he says "Oh not again! Obi-wan is gonna kill me!". And lastly another lighter scene is when Anakin has dinner with Padme and he tells her a story about him and Obi-wan about a mission they went on and he says "When I got to them we got into aggressive negotiations" and Padme asks "Aggressive negotiations. What's that?" and Anakin says "Ah, well, its negotiations with a lightsabre".
Ewan
McGregor however still does well in his reprised role as Obi-wan Kenobi
and this time McGregor has sprouted a beard (which he spends a fair bit of time stroking onscreen!) as he starts his physical
resemblance toward Alec Guinness. But I have to say I still think he tries to overdo his attempt to try and sound like Guinness as much as possible which can be a bit grating. Regardless of that McGregor must have enjoyed playing
the part of Obi-wan in this film as he get's to really patronise and
keep Anakin down and in his place with his somewhat highly critical
tutelage. McGregor has some good moments in the film such as the scenes
where he arrives at Kamino and finds the secret clone army being built
and he later fights against Jango Fett, the bounty hunter. McGregor
also manages to one or two good lines in the film as well (yep there are
some!) such as the scene where Anakin jumps into their ship and Obi-wan
asks Anakin "What took you so long?" and Anakin replies "Sorry Master I
couldn't find a speeder I liked with the right cockpit and the right
speed capabilities". And Obi-wan snaps back "If you spent as much time
practising your sabre techniques as you did your wit, you'd rival Master
Yoda as a swordsman!" and Anakin says "I thought I already did" and
Obi-wan says "Only in your mind, my very young apprentice!".
And later on when Obi-wan is captured by Count Dooku and sentenced to death and put out on display in a large pit, chained to a post, he sees Anakin and Padme brought who are chained up as well. And Obi-wan says to Anakin "I was beginning to wonder if you got my message" and Anakin meekly says "I retransmitted it, just as you requested, Master. And then we decided to come and rescue you" and Obi-wan looks up at his handcuffed hands and says "Good job!". And then there is the scene which is probably the funniest scene in the film where Obi-wan and Anakin follow Padme's would be assassin into a bar and as Obi-wan goes to the bar to get a drink he is approached by a young alien Elan Sleazbeganno (played by Matt Doran who appeared in the first Matrix film). And Elan asks him "Do you wanna buy some death sticks?" and Obi-wan uses his jedi mind trick on him saying "You don't want to sell me death sticks" and Elan obediently says "I don't want to sell you death sticks" and Obi-wan then says "You want to go home and rethink your life" and again Elan says "I want to go home and rethink my life!" and leaves!
And later on when Obi-wan is captured by Count Dooku and sentenced to death and put out on display in a large pit, chained to a post, he sees Anakin and Padme brought who are chained up as well. And Obi-wan says to Anakin "I was beginning to wonder if you got my message" and Anakin meekly says "I retransmitted it, just as you requested, Master. And then we decided to come and rescue you" and Obi-wan looks up at his handcuffed hands and says "Good job!". And then there is the scene which is probably the funniest scene in the film where Obi-wan and Anakin follow Padme's would be assassin into a bar and as Obi-wan goes to the bar to get a drink he is approached by a young alien Elan Sleazbeganno (played by Matt Doran who appeared in the first Matrix film). And Elan asks him "Do you wanna buy some death sticks?" and Obi-wan uses his jedi mind trick on him saying "You don't want to sell me death sticks" and Elan obediently says "I don't want to sell you death sticks" and Obi-wan then says "You want to go home and rethink your life" and again Elan says "I want to go home and rethink my life!" and leaves!
Natalie
Portman, while she is by far the better performer than Hayden
Christensen and does what she can with her role as Padme, she too
suffers from having to try and deliver a convincing love story, and in
the end it is anything but as it is rather flat and one note. Natalie
also get's some cringeworthy dialogue, especially in the scene where
after Anakin and Padme have been sentenced to death, Padme declares her
love for Anakin. And Padme says to Anakin "I'm not afraid to die. I've
been dying a little bit each day since you come back into my life. I
truly.... deeply.... love you and before you die I want you to know
that". Awwww jeeezzzzz!! But Portman also has one or two good moments such as when Yoda and the other jedi turn up with the clone army near the end they rescue Anakin, Padme and Obi-wan from being killed at the behest of Count Dooku. And during the fight between the clone army and the droid army Anakin asks her "Is this what you call a diplomatic solution?" and Padme refers to what they spoke of earlier over dinner and smiles saying "No I call it aggressive negotiations!".
As
for the supporting cast, Christopher Lee fairs well in his role
as the villainous Count Dooku, former jedi knight, who is now sided
with the federation and creates a robot army to take down the Republic.
Lee doesn't get many good lines either but he does have a couple of
good scenes, one being where after having captured Obi-wan he asks him
to co-operate but Obi-wan refuses. And in the scene Dooku reveals a little secret "What if I told you that the Republic was now under the control of a dark lord of the Sith?". And as Obi-wan refuses to believe him Dooku says "The Dark Side has clouded their vision. Hundreds of senators are now under the influence of a Sith lord called Darth Sidious". The other scene is his last one
where he has his showdown with both Obi-wan and Anakin and later Yoda. And Lee has some decent lines here such as when Dooku uses his force powers to subdue an impatient Anakin and Dooku warns Obi-wan "As you can see my jedi powers are far beyond yours, now back down!" and he fires some force lightning from his fingertips but Obi-wan absorbs the lightning with his lightsabre and confidently says "I don't think so!".
Samuel L Jackson also reprises his role of Mace Windu well enough, although Sam doesn't have the luxury of great dialogue either, but he does get to do a bit more here than in Episode I as he get's to kick some ass in the film's climactic battle scene on Geonosis. And Sam does deliver the film's best line when Mace Windu arrives on Geonosis and he ignites his lightsabre and holds it threateningly close to Dooku and Mace says "This party's over!". And in the same scene Dooku says to Mace "You are impossibly outnumbered!" and Mace defiantly says "I don't think so!" before he launches his offensive against the droid army. Sam however is not saved from delivering some pretty naff dialogue either though especially in one scene where Mace says to Windu regarding them not knowing about the clone army "I think it is time we inform the senate that our ability to use the force has diminished" only for Yoda to warn him not to as it would only alert their adverseries.
Temeura Morrison however doesn't fare so well in his role as the bounty hunter, Jango Fett, who is used to create the clone army, as he gives a pretty lame and wooden performance and is also given some naff dialogue to deliver. And a prime example of this is when Jango meets Obi-wan on Kamino and Obi-wan says to him "You're clones are very impressive. You must be very proud." and Jango says "I'm just a simple man trying my way in the universe". Gaaaawwwwd! Still Morrison has pretty decent fight scene with Obi-wan on the planet Kamino when Jango tries to take off in his ship with his son, Boba.
Samuel L Jackson also reprises his role of Mace Windu well enough, although Sam doesn't have the luxury of great dialogue either, but he does get to do a bit more here than in Episode I as he get's to kick some ass in the film's climactic battle scene on Geonosis. And Sam does deliver the film's best line when Mace Windu arrives on Geonosis and he ignites his lightsabre and holds it threateningly close to Dooku and Mace says "This party's over!". And in the same scene Dooku says to Mace "You are impossibly outnumbered!" and Mace defiantly says "I don't think so!" before he launches his offensive against the droid army. Sam however is not saved from delivering some pretty naff dialogue either though especially in one scene where Mace says to Windu regarding them not knowing about the clone army "I think it is time we inform the senate that our ability to use the force has diminished" only for Yoda to warn him not to as it would only alert their adverseries.
Temeura Morrison however doesn't fare so well in his role as the bounty hunter, Jango Fett, who is used to create the clone army, as he gives a pretty lame and wooden performance and is also given some naff dialogue to deliver. And a prime example of this is when Jango meets Obi-wan on Kamino and Obi-wan says to him "You're clones are very impressive. You must be very proud." and Jango says "I'm just a simple man trying my way in the universe". Gaaaawwwwd! Still Morrison has pretty decent fight scene with Obi-wan on the planet Kamino when Jango tries to take off in his ship with his son, Boba.
Ian
McDiarmid once again provides another fine performance in his dual role
as Chancellor Palpatine and Darth Sidious although he does take a bit
of a back seat in Episode II and he would feature more heavily in
Episode III. And McDiarmid nicely hints at his dual character's
manipulative schemes Palaptine at one points speaks to Anakin alone and
he tells him "In time, you will learn to trust your feelings. Then you
will be invincible. I have said it many times, you are the most gifted
Jedi I have ever met. I see you becoming the greatest of all Jedi,
Anakin. Even more powerful than Master Yoda."
And lastly Frank Oz does a good job with his voice acting skills again as he voices Yoda and he delivers one of the film's best lines when Yoda fights Dooku and at the point where they try and outpower each other with force lightning, Yoda manages to absorb Dooku's lightning and says "Much to learn you still have!". And toward the end of the scene Yoda says to Dooku "Fight well you have, my old Padawan!" and Dooku says "This is just the beginning!" and he uses his force powers to bring down a large pillar as a diversion so he can escape, forcing (no pun intended!) Yoda to use the full extent of his force powers to stop it bearing down on Anakin and Obi-wan. And lastly there is Yoda's last scene where Obi-wan admits to how their fight against the droid army wouldn't have been a victory with out the clones. And Yoda says "Victory? Victory you say? Master Obi-Wan, not victory. The shroud of the dark side has fallen. Begun the Clone War has!".
And lastly Frank Oz does a good job with his voice acting skills again as he voices Yoda and he delivers one of the film's best lines when Yoda fights Dooku and at the point where they try and outpower each other with force lightning, Yoda manages to absorb Dooku's lightning and says "Much to learn you still have!". And toward the end of the scene Yoda says to Dooku "Fight well you have, my old Padawan!" and Dooku says "This is just the beginning!" and he uses his force powers to bring down a large pillar as a diversion so he can escape, forcing (no pun intended!) Yoda to use the full extent of his force powers to stop it bearing down on Anakin and Obi-wan. And lastly there is Yoda's last scene where Obi-wan admits to how their fight against the droid army wouldn't have been a victory with out the clones. And Yoda says "Victory? Victory you say? Master Obi-Wan, not victory. The shroud of the dark side has fallen. Begun the Clone War has!".
DIRECTION AND MUSIC
Getting to George Lucas, direction wise he does a fine job in directing the action scenes which are once again visually very impressive and the CGI effects are largely great, especially the scenes involving the clone army construction on Kamino and also seeing them in action on Geonosis. Lucas however again misdirects his actors and he is guilty of providing a rather uninspiring and vapid love story between the two lead perfomers in Hayden and Portman. Music wise however, John Williams once again provides a fine score for the film, keeping in tradition with the familiar Star Wars themes he composed for Episodes IV-VI and adding in some newer tracks aswell, although I wouldn't say it was one of his most memorable soundtracks though.
Getting to George Lucas, direction wise he does a fine job in directing the action scenes which are once again visually very impressive and the CGI effects are largely great, especially the scenes involving the clone army construction on Kamino and also seeing them in action on Geonosis. Lucas however again misdirects his actors and he is guilty of providing a rather uninspiring and vapid love story between the two lead perfomers in Hayden and Portman. Music wise however, John Williams once again provides a fine score for the film, keeping in tradition with the familiar Star Wars themes he composed for Episodes IV-VI and adding in some newer tracks aswell, although I wouldn't say it was one of his most memorable soundtracks though.
FLAWS
So
getting on Clones flaws, does it have any????? Yep. To start with the
love story between Anakin and Padme as I've already stated is really
insipid and it leaves you cringing at the awful dialogue the actors are
given to say, and their love story simply isn't that believable,
although with a better script maybe it could have been. Also it could have benefited alot more had George Lucas decided NOT to direct the film and got someone in who knew who to actually work with actors! And Anakin and
Padme's love story also at times drags the pace of the film down as well and
it could have done with being excised a little bit in order to keep the
film a little tighter (or just get rid of it altogether! ;-)).
The story itself overall is also a bit dull with the creation of clone army, which is done secretly on the behalf of the Republic, although I think more realistically what happened there was Palpatine gave the go ahead to create the army and he of course would later plan to use it for his own selfish ends in Episode III. Jango Fett is also a bit of boring character too and he really isn't give much more to do then sit around in the facility on Kamino, before escaping and heading to Geonosis, and putting on his familiar bounty hunter gear, which his son, Boba Fett, would later probably inherit (as Jango has his head lobbed off by Mace).
This also introduced the not so good idea of having Morrison's voice dubbed over for Boba Fett in the re-issued special edition DVD of The Empire Strikes Back rather than the original one. And this doesn't make a whole lot of sense as its Boba Fett and not Jango in Episode V so why would he have an identical voice to his father's because there's a fair chance might not have. Also for some reason Lucas decided not to tamper with the other stormtrooper voices funnily enough in the other Star Wars special editions, which is just as well so that way they wouldn't all sound like Morrison either even if Fett was the original template for the clone army but still that doesn't necessarily mean they couldn't alter the clone's voices somehow, but I digress.
I also thought the climactic fight scene between Obi-wan, Anakin with Dooku and eventually Yoda while it was mostly quite entertaining that it ended on a bit of an anti-climax as Dooku easily deals with the two young Jedi before facing off his old master in Yoda. And Yoda's fight scene with Dooku which admittedly is alot of fun its visually also a bit silly and cringeworthy and its funny how Yoda NEEDS a cane to walk most of the time, yet he can jump and somersault around like nothing else when he fights Dooku! But they both abort the fight scene rather quickly which is a bit of a letdown in itself. And after their fight scene Yoda uses his force powers to regain his cane and limps slowly away, and you think.... is this the same guy I saw a moment ago????!! But to the fight scene's credit what works about it pretty well are the close-up shots between Yoda and Dooku even if the far away ones look really daft!
SUM UP
And that's it for my relook at Attack of the Clones which to be fair is still quite an entertaining if pretty flawed movie with its lame leading performance from Hayden Christensen not to mention some truly awful dialogue from the film's characters and its dull so called love story between Anakin and Padme. However the film's action scenes are still pretty good and there is still just about enough to enjoy here and even better Lucas did listen to his audience for once by nearly removing Jar Jar Binks from the entire movie and giving him only one line of dialogue (good job George!).
The story itself overall is also a bit dull with the creation of clone army, which is done secretly on the behalf of the Republic, although I think more realistically what happened there was Palpatine gave the go ahead to create the army and he of course would later plan to use it for his own selfish ends in Episode III. Jango Fett is also a bit of boring character too and he really isn't give much more to do then sit around in the facility on Kamino, before escaping and heading to Geonosis, and putting on his familiar bounty hunter gear, which his son, Boba Fett, would later probably inherit (as Jango has his head lobbed off by Mace).
This also introduced the not so good idea of having Morrison's voice dubbed over for Boba Fett in the re-issued special edition DVD of The Empire Strikes Back rather than the original one. And this doesn't make a whole lot of sense as its Boba Fett and not Jango in Episode V so why would he have an identical voice to his father's because there's a fair chance might not have. Also for some reason Lucas decided not to tamper with the other stormtrooper voices funnily enough in the other Star Wars special editions, which is just as well so that way they wouldn't all sound like Morrison either even if Fett was the original template for the clone army but still that doesn't necessarily mean they couldn't alter the clone's voices somehow, but I digress.
I also thought the climactic fight scene between Obi-wan, Anakin with Dooku and eventually Yoda while it was mostly quite entertaining that it ended on a bit of an anti-climax as Dooku easily deals with the two young Jedi before facing off his old master in Yoda. And Yoda's fight scene with Dooku which admittedly is alot of fun its visually also a bit silly and cringeworthy and its funny how Yoda NEEDS a cane to walk most of the time, yet he can jump and somersault around like nothing else when he fights Dooku! But they both abort the fight scene rather quickly which is a bit of a letdown in itself. And after their fight scene Yoda uses his force powers to regain his cane and limps slowly away, and you think.... is this the same guy I saw a moment ago????!! But to the fight scene's credit what works about it pretty well are the close-up shots between Yoda and Dooku even if the far away ones look really daft!
SUM UP
And that's it for my relook at Attack of the Clones which to be fair is still quite an entertaining if pretty flawed movie with its lame leading performance from Hayden Christensen not to mention some truly awful dialogue from the film's characters and its dull so called love story between Anakin and Padme. However the film's action scenes are still pretty good and there is still just about enough to enjoy here and even better Lucas did listen to his audience for once by nearly removing Jar Jar Binks from the entire movie and giving him only one line of dialogue (good job George!).
Anyway so that's it for now and I will be back again sometime soon with a new post.
Until then bye the now.
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