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Mad_Aragorn sends this:
I am a French journalist and I saw Attack of the Clones yesterday. The movie is brilliant, there is no doubt about this. It is dark, thrilling, entertaining and I almost cried like a girl during all the scenes in Tatooine. The work done on Anakin's character is absolutely wonderful, and the movie would not work as well as it does without the Phantom Menace. In Episode I, Anakin was a perfectly innocent boy who dreamt to fly away from his planet and become a Jedi. Ten years later, Anakin feels that his training prevents him from being complete as a man. He cannot help thinking about Padme and his mother, and eventually wants to go back to his home planet. More than a very spectacular summer movie, Attack of the Clones is a deeply moving tragedy.
This being said, I must admit that something has bothered me during the awesome finale of the film. It has been announced that John Williams and the London Orchestra had recorded about 125 minutes of music. During the Jedi Battle in the arena, the copy that I saw (which is supposed to be the one which will reach the screen in a week) presented a rough cut of music from The Phantom Menace (including the return to Naboo and the Gungan Battle). I do know every note of Episode I by heart, and I can swear that these were not pieces written for Episode II. Now I do have another motivation to see the movie again as soon as it is released. If anyone noticed this, please don't leave me alone!