If You Really Loved Me You'd Let Me Eat Your Brain

The Reverend has seen Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, and he was not disappointed.

I have complaints but they're a magnitude or two less than with Episodes I and II in both number and intensity.

There were times when Stephen Hawking’s Speak & Spell would have sounded like Kenneth Branagh compared to Hayden Christensen’s delivery. I guffawed loudly twice that I can remember in reaction to some monstrously bland dialog. Lucas bashes us over the head with some exposition that has all the grace of Helen Keller and Tommy (the Pinball Wizard) juggling water balloons on the surface of a neutron star. A few of Palpatine’s scenes were so bad that I thought I was watching outtakes from Scream IV, or Ernest Goes to the Dark Side. Why did the Wookies give the Tarzan jungle yell when they were swinging into action? Gen. Grievous and some of the other mechs seemed really clunky when they moved...

But then...Ewan McGregor turned in a pretty good performance. Ian McDiarmid’s cunning was delightfully wicked at times. The fight between Grievous and Obi-Wan was interesting. The extended sequence for the execution of Order 66 was very well done. The final fight between Obi-Wan and Anakin was excellent, and the results very, very gruesome. The birthing scene was very touching and the ending was excellent.

Still, the Luc-ass can never be forgiven for screwing up I and II so much. If I had him in a locked room I’m probably go postal and Gimp him for the rest of his life. He’d only be allowed out to sweep the theater and work on fixing I and II. Prior to seeing this movie I would have Gimped him and tossed him in a river.

I’d give it a 7 out of 10, and I think I’ll be seeing it again on the big screen.