The AP Wire is carrying this story on reaction to the film which has been very positive generally speaking:

Fans who found fault with the film still applauded Yoda.

The movie ""was OK. The dialogue was pretty bad, but Yoda was awesome,'' said Andy Ellis, 24, a musician from Los Angeles.

Hard-core fans turned up in ""Star Wars'' outfits and staged mock light-saber battles as they waited in line for screenings that began a minute past midnight Thursday. Outside Grauman's Chinese Theatre along Hollywood Boulevard, people wore white stormtrooper armor and the bounty-hunter costume of Jango Fett and son Boba.

At a theater in Sawgrass Mills mall in Sunrise, Fla., 16-year-old Jessica Meunier dressed as Princess Leia, her hair pulled into large rolls over her ears.

""George Lucas opened up an entire genre,'' she said, crediting the filmmaker with raising the bar on sound and special effects. ""What I also love is it just brings out people from all age groups, the old and the young.''

With the midnight fervor of diehard fans behind them, theaters braced for the real onslaught as general audiences massed for ""Attack of the Clones.'' Show times began at 10 a.m. at many cinemas, and some theaters had ""Star Wars'' screenings starting every half hour.

Many people took the day off from work or school to see ""Episode II.'' Retail salesman Robert Benjamin, 32, and his friend Sami Zodo, 32, a bank manager, scheduled the day off to see ""Attack of the Clones'' at the first morning screening at the Grove Stadium theater in Los Angeles.

They deliberately avoided reading reviews.

""I didn't want to know any details about the story line,'' Benjamin said. ""I wanted the whole thing to be a surprise when I saw it.''