Let’s face it,
if Episode II had been about Yoda painting his hut and Dagobah and tending his
swamp garden, it would still have been miles better than the train wreck inside
a sinking ship that was Episode I. Here
Anakin has to keep Padme safe from his own raging hormones while Obi-wan heads
off to get an accent in posh accents from Count Dooku as played by Christopher
Lee rather than Daffy Duck.
Boba Fett and
his dad are in this one along with loads of proto-stormtroopers and octopus
druids. Lots of lightsaber, nice battle
at the end and a trademark scene of an arm being cut off from Mr Lucas make for
a wonderful film if you’ve sat through a four hour long History exam and would
have been happy if someone told you the evening’s entertainment consisted of
hanging upside down until you had a vision of pixies dancing around a campfire
or passed out from the blood rushing to your head.
Beyond that
Samuel L. Jackson sports a purple lightsaber but fails to make the grade
required for Snakes on a Star Destroyer to become a film. Still we get to see some baby Star
Destroyers and Ian McDiarmid plays up the machiavellian Palpatine exquisitely
to make this film the best of the prequels.
A nice fare for a Sunday evening when your girlfriend/progeny are
recovering from your ranting about how Episode I was the greatest crime in
cinematic history.
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