[Mr. Mopery]

Saw it yesterday and I thought it was ok. I'd agree with those above that I enjoyed it mostly because it wasn't as bad as the previous 2.

The film felt really...detached...to me. I mean, there's this galactic war going on and we see just the tiniest fraction and get no sense of the scale. Even the opening scene basically just followed the two Jedi. You got no sense of the relevance of ANYTHING else.

In the first trilogy, on the other hand, you got to see some of the supporting cast. When they got snuffed it meant something. When a droid or clone was destroyed, I mainly felt a twinge of curiosity as to what value, exactly, a clone's life might have. And why Jedi didn't seem concerned at all about it.

As for the political statements, I have a feeling that in 10-20 years the stuff we see now as contemporary, anti-Bush sentiments will be seen in a more general light. That is, the themes of Authoritarianism (Fascism) vs Democracy are a lot older than we are. So yeah, they may be part of the film because of current events, but they reflect a much more universal theme.

Hobbes and Locke are classics now, but when they wrote it was about contemporary concerns. And it seems that everybody is just hypersensitive about partisanship these days. If the film had opened in 1991, probably everybody would have noticed and ranted about the racial themes.

Zeitgeist, Baby. Zeitgeist.