The Hollywood Reporter posted their review of AOTC:

The good news about George Lucas' new "Star Wars" movie is that the universally loathed Jar Jar Binks is little more than a dress extra, action scenes are pumped with lightning-quick effects and choreography, R2-D2 and C-3PO are together again for the first time, and the whole thing feels more adult than "The Phantom Menace," which launched his second space-opera trilogy. The not-so-good news is that Lucas still struggles to replicate the spirit of fun and adventure of the original "Star Wars" and "The Empire Strikes Back." Those films were pure adrenaline rush. That feeling returns only near the end of "Star Wars: Episode II -- Attack of the Clones," during a rescue operation and climatic battle that occupies the last quarter of the film.

The Lucas Legions will be out in force opening day, of course, and will return for further study of the political turmoil, nefarious plots and character misalliances that cloud that galaxy far, far away. Predicting a long, hot summer for "Clones" is the easiest possible forecast to make.

Other than a CG-enhanced chase through the airwaves of an urban metropolis near the beginning, the film gets off to a slow start with much exposition and characters getting reacquainted 10 years after the events of "The Phantom Menace." Surprisingly flat-footed dialogue scenes that feature wooden acting, dreary art direction and old-fashioned optical wipes are either intended as an homage to the sci-fi of the '50s or reflect the director's impatience with exposition.

Thanks to Raphael Tehan for the alert.Rob Bowell sends this:

This URL has a descripiong of Howard Stern's review of Attack of the Clones: http://www.marksfriggin.com/news.htm#wed

Most of it is Howard complaining about the other people in the theater, but here's the relevent aspect:

Howard said the movie started out horrible. Robin disagreed though. Howard thought the first 15 minutes were really slow. He said ''Star Wars'' has seen it's better days. The writing seemed to be the problem according to Robin and Howard. Fred didn't like the movie but he said it was cinematically beautiful so people will want to go see it.

Howard said everything is a build up and you never find out anything. Both Howard and Robin said the last half hour of the movie was great when they were battling. Artie said he loved it because he loves the whole story there and now he can't wait to go see the next one.

There were some scenes in the movie that got laughs which shouldn't have. Howard pointed out one scene where Natalie Portman does a couple of things that got laughs but shouldn't have. Howard also said the Jedi powers are very inconsistent too.

Howard said he will recommend the movie because it was visually beautiful and you just have to go to see the continuing story. Howard said it wasn't better than ''Spider-Man'' but it will do well as far as box office.

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