'Attack of the Clones' found the once-invincible 'Star Wars' franchise coping with mixed reaction to 'The Phantom Menace' and competition from 'The Matrix,' 'Harry Potter' and 'Lord of the Rings.'
seemed absolutely engineered, especially its showstopping, spectacle-heavy third act, to defend itself from the notion thatwas passe or had been superseded in the pop culture zeitgeist. Nor do I know what the story line was going to be before the 9/11 attacks in September of 2001, butconcerning a virtuous senator forced to resign due to baseless allegations of scandal resonated during the Clinton/Lewinsky scandal.
Natalie Portman has “evolved” from Elizabethan monarch to a conventionally “hot” romantic interest who spends the finale in a form-friendly outfit meant to remind you of Carrie Fisher’s Princess Leia, while the film climaxes with forty-five minutes of almost unapparelled cinematic showmanship including mass battles on the ground and in the air between Jedi, clone soldiers and robot troops before Yoda becomes a lightsaber-wielding bad-ass.
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