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Star Wars - Episode II, Attack of the Clones (Widescreen Edition) |  | Director: George Lucas
Actors: Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Hayden Christensen, Christopher Lee, Samuel L. Jackson
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Category: DVD
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Rating:  2160 reviews
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Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Subtitled), English (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), French (Dubbed)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Discs: 2
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 2
Running Time: 142 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: FOXD2005539D
UPC: 024543055396
EAN: 0024543055396
ASIN: B00006HBUJ
Theatrical Release Date: May 16, 2002
Release Date: March 22, 2005
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ANAKIN HAS GROWN INTO AN ACCOMPLISHED JEDI APPRENTICE, YET HE MUST CHOOSE BETWEEN JEDI DUTY & FORBIDDEN LOVE.
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If The Phantom Menace was the setup, then Attack of the Clones is the plot-progressing payoff, and devoted Star Wars fans are sure to be enthralled. Ten years after Episode I, Padmé Amidala (Natalie Portman), now a senator, resists the creation of a Republic Army to combat an evil separatist movement. The brooding Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen) is resentful of his stern Jedi mentor, Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor), tormented by personal loss, and showing his emerging "dark side" while protecting his new love, Amidala, from would-be assassins. Youthful romance and solemn portent foreshadow the events of the original Star Wars as Count Dooku (a.k.a. Darth Tyranus, played by Christopher Lee) forges an alliance with the Dark Lord of the Sith, while lavish set pieces showcase George Lucas's supreme command of all-digital filmmaking. All of this makes Episode II a technological milestone, savaged by some critics as a bloated, storyless spectacle, but still qualifying as a fan-approved precursor to the pivotal events of Episode III. --Jeff Shannon
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 LOVE THIS MOVIE!!! August 26, 2010
K. Martin
I have been a fan of the Star Wars movies since I was a small child and I adore this movie and all the other Star Wars movies! Star Wars 4 EVER!!!
 Action, romance...overall, pretty darn good August 3, 2010
Joker (Michigan)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Before I saw Episode II - Attack Of The Clones in the movie theater in May 2002, I heard that it was a big improvement over Episode I - The Phantom Menace. It was.
For one thing, this movie's script was way better than The Phantom Menace's. While The Phantom Menace had a loaded, complicated script that the average viewer can't memorize, Attack Of The Clones had a script that was less complicated and easier to memorize and was more typical of episodes IV, V, and VI. C3PO is an important character in the whole Star Wars series because he's funny and over-the-top. C3PO was "back" to being rather funny in Attack Of The Clones, even though he really couldn't be funny in The Phantom Menace since he was being built at the time and had limited exposure to the galaxy outside of Tatooine and didn't really have a chance to hang around his future sidekick, R2D2. I was glad to see him back in character.
I feel this was Obi-Wan Kenobi's shining moment in all the Stars Wars films. Ewan McGregor played the role very well. In my opinion, Kenobi was the most adventurous and at his toughest in this movie, particularly when he visited the ocean planet of Kamino to track down Jango Fett. I liked the performance of Temuera Morrison as Jango Fett. Very good. Speaking of Kamino, it's my favorite planet featured in this movie - that is, the ocean and the thunder and lightning. However, the building where the clones are kept looks way too clean and pristine for a Star Wars movie. George Lucas has always striven for showing, as he calls it, "the used future", where everything looks worn and used and dirty. This place, however, looks like something out of Star Trek. Maybe the reason for the cleanliness has to do with having a sterile environment because they're raising a cloned army. I don't know. Only George knows.
This movie introduces a new apprentice of Darth Sidious. His name is Darth Tyrannus, better known as Count Dooku, played by Christopher Lee. Lee plays this role very well. Dooku is one of my favorite characters in the whole series, not far behind my favorite character of them all, Chancellor Palpatine/Darth Sidious/Emperor Palpatine.
I like the action scenes on Coruscant. Coruscant itself is breathtaking and very well done. I also like the scene when Kenobi is being chased by Jango and Boba Fett through the asteroid belt. Very cool.
My favorite scene in the movie is the light sabre fight between Yoda and Count Dooku. I learned something - don't underestimate a 937-year-old little green thing. Yoda kicks butt in this short but sweet sabre duel.
Thankfully, they toned down the annoying Jar-Jar Binks in this movie and didn't give him nearly as much screen time. In my opinion, Binks completely ruined The Phantom Menace. He has to be one of the least liked characters in the history of motion pictures. He's definitely a first ballot Hall of Famer in the Worst Movie Characters Of All Time Hall Of Fame.
The romance between Anakin and Padme? It's dull, awkward, unconvincing, and wooden. This was to be the focal point of the movie and instead it was botched. Bad lines, unconvincing chemistry between the two of them. All of a sudden Padme falls for Anakin, and it seems to come out of nowhere. She falls for him even though he's acting hateful and slaughtering a bunch of Tusken Raiders, including their children. Prior to that, she spent 95% of the time pushing him away, mostly while dressing in revealing and seductive clothing. I took off one star in my rating of this movie because of this alone. Out of the hundreds of people who worked on this movie, couldn't somebody tell George Lucas that this relationship between Padme and Anakin just wasn't going to be convincing to the audience? It seems that everybody dropped the ball.
The movie has some slow and boring parts, but things pick up with the frequent action scenes.
How is the acting in this movie? On the whole, it's fair, that's all. I think Hayden Christensen's acting is very wooden at times. His acting in Episode III - Revenge Of The Sith is way better. Natalie Portman's acting is pretty good, but could have been better. Samuel L. Jackson does a good job as Jedi Knight Mace Windu. The best actor in the movie was Ewan McGregor.
John Williams comes through with another amazing score, one of my favorites from the whole series.
My personal rankings of the Star Wars movies, from favorite to least favorite, are:
1. The Empire Strikes Back
2. A New Hope
3. Revenge Of The Sith
4. Attack Of The Clones
5. Return Of The Jedi
6. The Phantom Menace
Overall, I highly recommend Episode II - Attack Of The Clones.
the empire begins July 17, 2010
Marianne (KINGWOOD, TX USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a great science fiction movie this has made an improvement over episode 1.
But they alot of better films in 2002 like Iceage Spiderman and Lord of the Rings 2.This one has better battles and a better villan than Darth Maul.
Count Doouku played by Christopher Lee the guy from Lord of the Rings.
and one more thing they have a great lightsaber dual bettween Yoda and Dooku
 worst Star Wars movie of the whole series July 12, 2010
Dream's Raven (USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
While Episode I was a disappointment, this movie was mostly terrible. The acting was horriffic, the script full of cliches, and the plot about Anakin's romance with Padme was dull. I'm giving it 2 stars because there was some good action sequences at a few points, most notably at the end when Yoda gets in a sword fight, but on the whole I'd say this movie was pretty bad and I don't really plan on watching it again.
excellent, but... July 2, 2010
the end (usa)
great film, fun plot. but WHY ALL THE UNECCESSARY Computer Graphics??? the storm troopers (clones) are cg!!!! why??????????? there are scenes that are cg where all the troopers are doing is marching or standing around! star wars nerds would wear those suits for free and be filmed walking around! i would understand a low budget film using cg for those guys in the battle scenes but this film had a high budget! wtf??? the backgrounds were sometimes cg that was even worse than the phantom menace!!! why????? at one point anakin is talking to palpatine in a room that is cg! they couldn't even build a small room? it had to be computerized??? this is the kind of thing you expect from tv or straight to video movies but not this!!!!
still though the story and action are pretty good and i like the characters, except jar jar, he was a nightmare. also padme and anakins' relationship was very sweet and anakin's emotion when dealing with issues was well done, he's got problems...
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