Released: 2002
Directed By: George Lucas
Written By: George Lucas
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Hayden Christensen.
Rent or Buy?: RENT (But if "Star Wars" fan BUY it).
"A Jedi Shall Not Know Anger. Nor Hatred. Nor Love."
Story:
Ten years have now passed since the events that happened on the planet of Naboo. Padme has now been made a Senator and after another assassination attempt was made on her, the Jedi council apoints two bodyguards to her aid, Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi and his young apprentice Anakin Skywalker. Anakin vows that he will find out who is trying to kill Padme even though his teacher tells him not to. Another assassination attempt is made on Padme by Za Wesell a changeling. Anakin and Obi-Wan follow her by clinging to her probes and speeder eventually causing it to crash to the ground where Zen runs into a bar to hide. Anakin and Obi-Wan then probe the bar and Zen comes up behind Obi-Wan with blaster drawn but before she can fire he slices her arm off and the two jedi drag her outside to get information but before they can she is assassinated by her employer from a toxic dart. Obi-Wan takes the dart to be analyzed and finds out the dart is from the planet of Camino. Obi-Wan then consults the jedi council and they appoint him with tracking down this bounty hunter and Anakin is appointed to continue protecting Padme and is ordered to take her to her home planet of Naboo so she will be safe and to fill in for her will be Jar Jar Binks. Obi-Wan travels to the water planet of Camino and talks with the head of their order and finds out that they are cloners and think that he has been sent by a jedi by the name of Sipher Dias who placed the clone army order to inspect production. While there Obi-Wan finds out that the first clone made there is a bounty hunter by the name of Jango Fett, Obi-Wan meets him and is suspicious of him and consults Mace Windu once again and is ordered to hold Jango prisoner and bring him before the jedi council for further questioning but when Obi-Wan gets to Jango's ship he is attacked by both Jango and Jango's son Boba who fires their ship's blasters at Obi-Wan. During the fight Obi-Wan's lightsaber is lost along with one of Jango's blasters and Obi-Wan ends up having his hands tangled by Jango's rope and dragged and eventually he knocks Jango down the side of the structure of the platform they are on but Jango drags Obi-Wan with him but is able to slow down but detaches the rope that Obi-Wan is still attached to, Jango thinks he has just killed him and heads into his ship, by the time Obi-Wan gets back to the platform Jango's ship is already taking off but Obi-Wan is able to place a tracking device on the hull. Meanwhile, on the planet of Naboo Padme and Anakin relax and exchange stories of childhood and we begin to see them fall for each other but Anakin's nightmares about his mother get worse and they decide to go to his home planet of Tattooine to check on her. Anakin finds his old master Watto and finds out that he sold his mother to a man by the name Krieg Lars and remembers that he freed her and married her they check Watto's records and Anakin goes to Krieg Lars' home with Padme where he is reunited with C-3PO and meets his stepbrother Owen and his stepfather Krieg. Krieg explains then how Anakin's mother was taken by Tusken Raiders(sandpeople) and hasn't been seen for a month and is suspected to be dead. Anakin then goes and tracks down the Raiders and finds his mother where she dies in his arms and then we see some of the dark side come out in Anakin as he kills every Tusken Raider there and brings his mother's body back to have her buried. Meanwhile, Obi-Wan follows Jango Fett to a planet called Geonosis where the get into a huge spacefight in the astroid field and while a seeking missle is chasing him Obi-Wan deploys spareparts and the missle explodes and once again Jango thinks he his killed Obi-Wan. Obi-Wan lands on the planet where he spies on Jango, the leader of the separist party Count Dooku, the still Viceroy of the Trade Federation Nute Gunray and other members of the separist party where the speak of making a huge droid army. Obi-Wan then tries to send a message to the jedi council but cant reach them, so, he sends it to Anakin's ship and orders him to relay it to the jedi council. Obi-Wan is then captured by the separist party. Anakin transmits the message to the jedi council and they tell him to stay with Padme and they will get the clone army that Obi-Wan talked of and save him. Padme then decides to go to Geonosis and Anakin must go with her. They are then captured in the droid refinery plant and are sentence to death along with Obi-Wan. They escape from their excutioners and then Mace Windu and the other jedis come in and start fighting battle droids. Many droids are being destroyed many jedi are being killed, while in the battle Mace Windu kills Jango Fett by cutting off his head with his lightsaber. There is then about 20 jedi left and they are all surrounded by battle droids and it appears that they will die when out of nowhere Yoda and the clone army come in and save the remaining jedi. Count Dooku retreats and retrieves the separist's plans for the ultimate weapon(Death Star). Count Dooku retreats on his speeder and Anakin, Obi-Wan and Padme follow him in their transport but on the way there, Padme falls out and Anakin wants to stop but Obi-Wan reminds him that he must do his duty and if he doesn't he will be expelled from the jedi order. Obi-Wan and Anakin then find Count Dooku and plan to fight him but before they do anything Anakin charges at Dooku but gets electricuted by Dooku's force lightning power and subdues Anakin for most the fight. Obi-Wan and Dooku then fight in a lightsaber dual but Dooku is too powerful and injures Obi-Wan by hitting him in the arm and leg with his lightsaber and just before Dooku is about to kill Obi-Wan with his saber Anakin deflects it and they fight and he obtains Obi-Wan's lightsaber and Anakin starts fighting with two lightsabers but one gets cut in half and Dooku slices off half of Anakin's arm. It then looks like then end for the two jedi when Yoda then enters and him and Dooku exchange force powers and then eventually get into a lightsaber battle where Yoda shows his true stength, Dooku then makes a pillar start falling down on the two wounded jedi and Yoda must stop fighting and use the force to stop the pillar from falling and while this happens Dooku escapes in his ship. Anakin then secretly marries Padme on her home planet.
Justin Whittaker's Review:
This was a very enjoyable movie, a very good continuation of the Star Wars saga. There were alot of memorable quotes from both the good guys and bad guys. Of course the symphony music was the same as expected. I very much enjoyed how they show where Boba Fett is from and how they show Anakin starting to fall to the darkside by his voice, actions, etc. Although one problem, the love scenes between Anakin and Padme are corny but the action makes up for that.
3 out of 4 stars
Hilarious/Memorable Quotes:
Obi-Wan Kenobi: Why do I get the feeling you're going to be the death of me?
Jango Fett: Zam, there will be no mistake this time.
Anakin Skywalker: I think HE is a SHE, and I think she is a changeling.
Obi-Wan Kenobi: In that case we better be extra careful.
Yoda: Track down this bounty hunter, you must, Obi-Wan.
Mace Windu: Most importantly, find out who he is working for.
C-3PO: Die Jedi scum! Oh my, what did I say?
Obi-Wan Kenobi: Are you still having dreams about your mother...Dreams pass in time.
Anakin Skywalker: Why did she have to die ? Why couldn't I have saved her ? I know I could have.
Padme: Sometimes there are things no one can fix. Your not all powerful Ani.
Anakin Skywalker: Well I should be. Someday I will be. I will be the most powerful jedi ever. I promise you. I will even learn to stop people from dying.
Padme: (concerned) Anakin ?
Anakin: Its all Obi-Wans fault, he's jealous! He's holding me back!
Padme: Whats wrong Ani ?
Anakin: I killed them. I killed them all. They're dead. Every single one of them. And not just the men, but the WOMEN and CHILDREN! They're like animals and I killed them like animals. I hate them!
Obi-Wan Kenobi: I was beginning to wonder if you had got my message.
Anakin Skywalker: I re-transmitted it just as you requested master. Then we decided to come and rescue you.
Obi-Wan Kenobi: Good job.
Count Dooku: Master Windu, how pleasant of you to join us.
Mace Windu: This party is over.
Count Dooku: Master Windu, you have fought galantly, worthy of recognition in the jedi archives. Now, it is finished, surrender and your lives will be spared.
Mace Windu: We will not be hostages to be bartered, Dooku!
Count Dooku: Then, I'm sorry old friend.
Anakin Skywalker: You're gonna pay for all the jedi that you killed today Dooku.
Obi-Wan Kenobi: We'll take him together, you go in slowly on the left...
Anakin Skywalker: No I want him now!
Obi-Wan Kenobi: No! Anakin! NO!
Count Dooku: Master Yoda.
Yoda: Count Dooku.
Count Dooku: You have interfered with our plans for long enough
Yoda: Powerful you have become Dooku. The dark side I sense in you.
Count Dooku: I've become more powerful than any jedi. Even you.
Yoda: Much to learn you still have.
Count Dooku: It is obvious that this contest cannot be decided by our true knowledge of the force. But by our skills with a lightsaber.
Count Dooku: The force is with us Master Sidious.
Darth Sidious: Welcome home, Darth Tyrannus. You have done well.
Count Dooku: I have good news for you my lord, the war has begun.
Darth Sidious: Excellent. Everything is going as planned.