Star Wars: Episode II – Attack Of The Clones Movie Info
| Field | Details |
|---|---|
| Movie Name | Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002) |
| Director | George Lucas |
| Screenplay Writer | George Lucas, Jonathan Hales |
| Based on Novel by | Based on Star Wars created by George Lucas |
| Lead Actors | Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Hayden Christensen |
| Cast | Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Hayden Christensen, Ian McDiarmid, Samuel L. Jackson, Christopher Lee, Temuera Morrison, Frank Oz (voice) |
| Genre | Science Fiction, Adventure, Action |
| Release Date | May 16, 2002 (United States) |
| Duration | 2h 22m (142 minutes) |
| Budget | ~$115 million |
| Language | English |
| Country | United States |
| Box Office (Worldwide) | ~$653.8 million |
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Summary
The second chapter of the prequel trilogy gets more things right, but god the acting reeks.
Review
The first (and some say best) of the Star Wars movies. Luke Skywalker discovers his destiny and the major players of the original trilogy are introduced.
It’s not an exaggeration to say that in 1977, moviemaking was changed forever with the first film (and later decided, fourth chapter) of George Lucas’s space fantasy epic series, Star Wars: A New Hope. For the sake of brevity, we’re just going to call it Star Wars here and let the others go by their “extended” titles in their reviews. One of the first movies to truly define the term “blockbuster,” Star Wars is notable for more than its gee-whiz special effects and its larger than life legend in the movie business it’s also a whole lot of fun.
Sure, the acting’s not that great (with the exception of Alec Guinness and a young Harrison Ford), a huge chunk of the dialogue is fairly hokey (less so than, say, Episode I), and the plot is fairly contrived (farm boy becomes savior to the galaxy by blowing up stuff and learning about the ways of the Jedi), but there’s so much sincerity and self-effacing humor in this mishmash of samurai movie and the old movie serials that you’re willing to forgive it. Unlike the other science fiction series that came before, the Star Wars universe looks real it’s occupied by people who aren’t heroes, who have jobs. Even the technology has a beaten look to it that adds authenticity for the viewer in a way that, say, Star Trek never managed until the movies.
The entire thing hangs together perfectly and this serves as an entertaining and captivating self-contained movie that managed to spawn a mythology and marketing juggernaut that’s so huge that it’s hard to imagine that this was considered a gamble on the part of 20th Century Fox when it came out.
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