Stink Bomb

I rented "Star Wars: Attack of the Clones" the other night. J. has some Yoda band-aids and now he's really taken with Yoda. We went to the video store and he had to have Yoda. I pushed "Bedknobs and Broomsticks" but he had to have Yoda. I thought Darth Vader would be too scary, so I decided against "Empire Strikes Back". I saw "Attack of the Clones" when it came out and thought it stank. But I remembered it had a lot of Yoda and was not too scary, so we took it home. What a pile of crap. Even worse on a TV. The digital effects are obvious. Digital Yoda doesn't compare to puppet Yoda. The acting is atrocious. And the story is a dog. The best (worst) scene is at the very end. Young pre-Darth Vader has lost a forearm to evil Count Dooku's light stick and gets a replacement claw. Then pre-Darth Vader and Natalie Portman get married. There are touching scenes of them facing each other, dewy eyed, and there's a close-up of her hand reaching out for his claw. It's so funny but so obviously meant in earnest that it's jaw-droppingly bad. You have to see it.