It's like a firetruck racing through town with a loudspeaker, everone's going to hear something about it, they may just not care so much. Here's my review of Star Wars, episode 3: Revenge of the Sith: Cynical and pandering. The whole prequel series has been building up towards this cgi induced specta-debacle and it's boring. It looks like Lucas intentionally sacrificed the plot, dialog, and other actual movie bits to let big name actors and his successful theme carry the whole thing, so he could work on other projects (like Indiana Jones 4 which, thankfully, he won't be directing).

There were some decent fight scenes in the first two, but this third one was all flashing and meanie fases, and very little actual anything to hold attention. I was so dulled by the time the climactic battle between Obi Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker meandered around that I almost forgot that this was the dovetail/shank into the original series. Certain segments of that fight were actually visibile and weren't so bad. Then, as with everything else in the movie, the characters opened their mouths. "I have the high ground," Obi Wan exhorts, more of a pleading than a warning. "NUO!! I CAN JUMP REEL HIGH!" Anakin retorts. Say no more. Ruined, my childhood memories have been.

Reports are that Hasbro may not make a gagillion dollars and will only make a quadrobillion. The way Star Wars is seen has officially changed forever and there's no room for nurdly dithering about what's "canon" - these 6 films are meant to be taken together in context and that context is cheesy dialog and plot without imagination.