Attack of the Clones – Plinkett Review

It’s finally here! Plinkett’s review of Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones.

In it’s lengthy 90 minutes, it doesn’t quite cover all the bases I was hoping it would, and is delving further into Plinkett’s life than we really need to, but it’s still just as funny, and brutally incisive, as his past reviews.

Follow through to YouTube, for the other 8 parts of this epic review.

This one actually depresses me a bit. As bad as Episode I turned out. As he says in this review, the story could have started here. In fact, we were expecting the story to start here. So no excuses now, no ‘Gungas’ to blame, no chance of saving the trilogy. The sequence in Part 9 with Yoda’s seminal ‘Force’ monologue from Empire, inter-cut with various contradicting scenes from the Prequels sums it all up really.

Despite this, I do disagree more with this review. In particular, the notion that George Lucas brought Samuel Jackson on-board to improve the demographics of black people coming to see the film. Samuel Jackson appeared on the show TFI Friday in the late 90′s, and was asked what film he would most like to be in, and he said ‘the Star Wars prequels’. He went on to add he didn’t care who he played in the film, Luke Skywalker’s slave, Lando’s dad, or a Stormtrooper, he just wanted to be in it. Needless to say he was hyped about Star Wars, like everyone was back then. After seeing him on this show, Lucasfilm gave him a call, but I guess people outside the UK may not have know this.

Aslo, I love the ‘Younglings’ scene in Episode II. It’s one of the few where Yoda, is that Yoda from Empire again. Maybe it does destroy the uniqueness of being a student of Yoda, but that was an assumption we all made. It doesn’t contradict what we know of Obi-Wan teaching Yoda from the Original Trilogy, certainly not like Episode I did.

Anyhow, it’s still mostly full of brilliant deconstruction, and I look forward to the Episode III review when it turns up, as it indeed will at some point.