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Star Wars Episode III

Revenge of the Sith on DVD

 

 

 

 

Product Details

  • Starring: Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman
  • Director: George Lucas
  • Encoding: Region 1
  • Format: Color, Closed-captioned, THX, Dolby
  • Rated: PG-13 \
  • Studio: Twentieth Century Fox Home Video
  • DVD Release Date: November 1, 2005
  • Run Time: 140
  • DVD Features:
    • Available subtitles: Spanish
    • Available Audio Tracks: English (Dolby Digital 5.1 EX), Spanish (Dolby Digital 5.1 EX), French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround)
    • Commentary by writer-director George Lucas, producer Rick McCallum, animation director Rob Coleman, and ILM visual effects supervisors John Knoll and Roger Guyett
    • Exclusive deleted scenes with introductions by George Lucas and Rick McCallum
    • "Within a Minute" documentary film about the making of the Mustafar battle
    • "The Chosen One" featurette: George Lucas traces the myth of Darth Vader through episodes 1-6
    • "It's All for Real: The Stunts of Episode III"
    • A 15-part collection of Lucasfilm's Web documentaries
    • Star Wars Battlefront II trailer and Xbox game demo
    • Star Wars Empire at War PC game trailer
    • "A Hero Falls" music video
    • Poster and print campaign
    • Trailers and TV spots
    • Never-before-seen production photo gallery
    • DVD-ROM content includes a free trial of Hyperspace, the ultimate online Star Wars experience
    • Number of discs: 2
  • ASIN: B00005JLXH

This is the 3rd item in The Star Wars Series.



Editorial Reviews
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Ending the most popular film epic in history, Star Wars: Episode III, Revenge of the Sith is an exciting, uneven, but ultimately satisfying journey. Picking up the action from Episode II, Attack of the Clones as well as the animated Clone Wars series, Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor) and his apprentice, Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen), pursue General Grievous into space after the droid kidnapped Supreme Chancellor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid).


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It's just the latest maneuver in the ongoing Clone Wars between the Republic and the Separatist forces led by former Jedi turned Sith Lord Count Dooku (Christopher Lee). On another front, Master Yoda (voiced by Frank Oz) leads the Republic's clone troops against a droid attack on the Wookiee homeworld of Kashyyyk. All this is in the first half of Episode III, which feels a lot like Episodes I and II. That means spectacular scenery, dazzling dogfights in space, a new fearsome villain (the CGI-created Grievous can't match up to either Darth Maul or the original Darth Vader, though), lightsaber duels, groan-worthy romantic dialogue, goofy humor (but at least it's left to the droids instead of Jar-Jar Binks), and hordes of faceless clone troopers fighting hordes of faceless battle droids.

But then it all changes.

After setting up characters and situations for the first two and a half movies, Episode III finally comes to life. The Sith Lord in hiding unleashes his long-simmering plot to take over the Republic, and an integral part of that plan is to turn Anakin away from the Jedi and toward the Dark Side of the Force. Unless you've been living under a rock the last 10 years, you know that Anakin will transform into the dreaded Darth Vader and face an ultimate showdown with his mentor, but that doesn't matter. In fact, a great part of the fun is knowing where things will wind up but finding out how they'll get there. The end of this prequel trilogy also should inspire fans to want to see the original movies again, but this time not out of frustration at the new ones. Rather, because Episode III is a beginning as well as an end, it will trigger fond memories as it ties up threads to the originals in tidy little ways. But best of all, it seems like for the first time we actually care about what happens and who it happens to.

Episode III is easily the best of the new trilogy--OK, so that's not saying much, but it might even jockey for third place among the six Star Wars films. It's also the first one to be rated PG-13 for the intense battles and darker plot. It was probably impossible to live up to the decades' worth of pent-up hype George Lucas faced for the Star Wars prequel trilogy (and he tried to lower it with the first two movies), but Episode III makes us once again glad to be "a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away."

 


The Phantom Menace | Attack of the Clones | Revenge of the Sith
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