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Special Features
- Eight exclusive deleted scenes with introductions: Padme Addresses the Senate, Jedi Temple Analysis Room, Obi-Wan and Mace on Jedi Landing Platform, Extended Arrival on Naboo, Padme's Parents' House, Padme's Bedroom, Dooku Interrogates Padme, Anakin and Padme on Trial
- "From Puppets to Pixels: Digital Characters in Episode II": all-new full-length documentary about the creation of digital characters in Episode II
- "State of the Art: The Previsualization of Episode II": witness the vital role of the animatics team
- "Films Are Not Released: They Escape" sound documentary
- Three featurettes examining the story line, action scenes, and love story through behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with the cast and filmmakers
- 12-part Web documentary
- "Across the Stars" music video: an original composition by John Williams crafted exclusively for this DVD
- Exclusive production photos
- One-sheet posters
- International outdoor campaign
- Trailers and TV spots
- "R2-D2: Beneath the Dome" mockumentary trailer
- ILM visual effects breakdown montage
- Exclusive DVD-ROM content
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
If The Phantom Menace was the setup, then Attack of the Clones is the plot-progressing payoff, and devoted Star Wars fans are sure to be enthralled. Ten years after Episode I, Padmé Amidala (Natalie Portman), now a senator, resists the creation of a Republic Army to combat an evil separatist movement. The brooding Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen) is resentful of his stern Jedi mentor, Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor), tormented by personal loss, and showing his emerging "dark side" while protecting his new love, Amidala, from would-be assassins. Youthful romance and solemn portent foreshadow the events of the original Star Wars as Count Dooku (a.k.a. Darth Tyranus, played by Christopher Lee) forges an alliance with the Dark Lord of the Sith, while lavish set pieces showcase George Lucas's supreme command of all-digital filmmaking. All of this makes Episode II a technological milestone, savaged by some critics as a bloated, storyless spectacle, but still qualifying as a fan-approved precursor to the pivotal events of Episode III. --Jeff Shannon
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The STAR WARS saga continues on DVD with Episode II Attack of the Clones. Anakin Skywalker has grown into an accomplished Jedi apprentice, and he faces his most difficult challenge yet as he must choose between his Jedi duty and forbidden love. Relive the adventure the way it was meant to be seen in spectacular digital clarity, including the climactic Clone War battle and Jedi Master Yoda in the ultimate lightsaber duel. Experience this 2-disc set that features over six hours of bonus materials, and see how Episode II unlocks the secrets of the entire STAR WARS saga.
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22 of 26 people found the following review helpful
By G. Kroener
Format:DVD
[...]
They FIGHT. Well, not really. They throw some stuff at each other using the force, and it is filmed in an incredibly boring way.
Count: "This fight can't be decided by our knowledge of the force, but surely by our ability to shout out dull lines!"
They draw their lightsabres and Yoda bounces back and forth like a green rubber ball. The audience is overwhelmed by this mind- boggling sillieness.
Count Dooku seems to dominate the fight, and even cuts off future Darth Vader's hand, but eventually FLEES!
Annie gets a new hand and marries Padme, although half an hour ago they decided that it would destroy them. Anyone else slightly irritated by Padme's love for Anakin? They haven't seen each other for ten years (which is itself a joke, considering that the Jedi temple and the senate are only miles apart), and yet she loves him, although she's busy refusing him for a good part of Episode II?
Did she fall in love with young Ani in Episode I??
Exactly like in Episode I, our characters stumble from scene to scene, without any coherent reason. Exactly like in Episode I, there's no real threat. Count Dooku summons a group of cartoons we never knew and makes them join his evil plan, whatever it might be.
Every Star Wars hero we know is turned into a fool.
Obi- Wan, in true Jedi style, runs into every trap imaginable and needs a kid to discover a whole planet.
Yoda takes the army of clones with him, although they were designed after a bounty hunter and ordered by Count Dooku himself.
Padme falls for Annie's infantile grin, and leaves Jar Jar Binks her job as a SENATOR! It`s because of HIM Palpatine/ future emperor becomes chancellor! No kidding! The Republic falls because of Jar- Jar Binks, THE worst character ever written ...
Future Darth Vader turns out to be a whiny teenager, who uses every cheap seduction method that even the screenwriters of American Pie would have turned down. Oh, and he rolls around in the grass in front of a beauuuuutiful waterfall landscape ...
In other words, Star Wars get further ruined.
The most hilarious thing about this DVD is the bonus stuff. The feature about Hayden Christensen is so incredibly pretentious; you can't help but laugh out loud when you hear people saying "there's so much in his eyes" or "he's such a talented young actor". And when Natalie Portman says that she adores his acting, you can only think of the blind who envys the one- eyed.
But the undisputed king of this hideous crap is George Lucas and his loss of reality, when he says about Episode II that all that counts is the storytelling, how skilfully you craft the story and how the effects are merely by- products of that.
Well, George, if this is your goal, you've failed miserably, more so than any other director in the history of cinema. And you've certainly come a looooong way.
And this, in a nutshell, is the problem: George Lucas is in complete control! He does everything, even though he has not the faintest clue of how to do it.
He's written this "film", and consequently, the story is quasi non- existential. There's an extreme gap between fluff and complex background stories. On one hand, the plot that drives this flick forward is incredibly superficial, on the other hand there are extremely subtle background informations that only die- hard fans can fully understand. Ironically, this background story sounds far more interesting than the actual, pretty despicable, story of Attack Of The Clones.
There are numerous oddities, illogical things and contradictions, which proof that George Lucas didn't care much about the story.
Number one: Padme is supposed to be 10 years older than Anakin.
Number two: Count Dooku is Palpatine's apprentice?? Isn't he about 20 years older than his master then? Maybe Palpatine said to himself "a young, dynamic man failed, maybe I should get an 80- year old ..."
Number three: why exactly can Anakin and Padme not be together? Aren't the jedi council and the senate supposed to work together? Wouldn't a marriage between a jedi and a senator enhance their relationship?
The best thing about the DVD features is that it tells you exactly why the prequels fail. Whether people want to accept it or not, the technical aspects of the filmmaking were in the spotlight for far too long. Rick McCallum tells us that Episode II is a completely digital film, that the actors literally stumbled from blue- screen to blue- screen. No wonder not a single person delivers in these films, when they are lost in a nothingness of blue and green wallpaper! It DOES affect the performance and therefor the quality of a film!
Then, some guy tells us that George Lucas doesn't really thinks about the question "Is that possible to do?" Well, he definitely SHOULD! That's why you are a director!
Alright, in order to move the industry forward, you've got to have visions and ambitious goals, but you also have to ask yourself "does that work?"
George Lucas only cares about bringing these things onto the big screen, no matter if it works or not!
In a movie, the settings have to be convincing, that's essential. If they don't, the audience gets distracted and the story won't work. The audience is literally thrown into a complete fantasy world, and this world just has to look real in order to make the movie work.
But this isn't the case here! It's like a video game with real actors.
No matter how hard you try, you can't spot a good thing in this flick. It can neither stand completely alone, nor does it have any real ties to either Episode I or III, except for the death of Anakin's mother.
I could give Episode II two stars for the sheer badness, which is almost entertaining, but the ridiculously high average rating forbids that.
By the way, the score also participated in this deterioration process, but for deeper thoughts on that, you can read my separate review.
Please, do yourself a favour, watch the Original trilogy and pretend the prequels don't exist!
They FIGHT. Well, not really. They throw some stuff at each other using the force, and it is filmed in an incredibly boring way.
Count: "This fight can't be decided by our knowledge of the force, but surely by our ability to shout out dull lines!"
They draw their lightsabres and Yoda bounces back and forth like a green rubber ball. The audience is overwhelmed by this mind- boggling sillieness.
Count Dooku seems to dominate the fight, and even cuts off future Darth Vader's hand, but eventually FLEES!
Annie gets a new hand and marries Padme, although half an hour ago they decided that it would destroy them. Anyone else slightly irritated by Padme's love for Anakin? They haven't seen each other for ten years (which is itself a joke, considering that the Jedi temple and the senate are only miles apart), and yet she loves him, although she's busy refusing him for a good part of Episode II?
Did she fall in love with young Ani in Episode I??
Exactly like in Episode I, our characters stumble from scene to scene, without any coherent reason. Exactly like in Episode I, there's no real threat. Count Dooku summons a group of cartoons we never knew and makes them join his evil plan, whatever it might be.
Every Star Wars hero we know is turned into a fool.
Obi- Wan, in true Jedi style, runs into every trap imaginable and needs a kid to discover a whole planet.
Yoda takes the army of clones with him, although they were designed after a bounty hunter and ordered by Count Dooku himself.
Padme falls for Annie's infantile grin, and leaves Jar Jar Binks her job as a SENATOR! It`s because of HIM Palpatine/ future emperor becomes chancellor! No kidding! The Republic falls because of Jar- Jar Binks, THE worst character ever written ...
Future Darth Vader turns out to be a whiny teenager, who uses every cheap seduction method that even the screenwriters of American Pie would have turned down. Oh, and he rolls around in the grass in front of a beauuuuutiful waterfall landscape ...
In other words, Star Wars get further ruined.
The most hilarious thing about this DVD is the bonus stuff. The feature about Hayden Christensen is so incredibly pretentious; you can't help but laugh out loud when you hear people saying "there's so much in his eyes" or "he's such a talented young actor". And when Natalie Portman says that she adores his acting, you can only think of the blind who envys the one- eyed.
But the undisputed king of this hideous crap is George Lucas and his loss of reality, when he says about Episode II that all that counts is the storytelling, how skilfully you craft the story and how the effects are merely by- products of that.
Well, George, if this is your goal, you've failed miserably, more so than any other director in the history of cinema. And you've certainly come a looooong way.
And this, in a nutshell, is the problem: George Lucas is in complete control! He does everything, even though he has not the faintest clue of how to do it.
He's written this "film", and consequently, the story is quasi non- existential. There's an extreme gap between fluff and complex background stories. On one hand, the plot that drives this flick forward is incredibly superficial, on the other hand there are extremely subtle background informations that only die- hard fans can fully understand. Ironically, this background story sounds far more interesting than the actual, pretty despicable, story of Attack Of The Clones.
There are numerous oddities, illogical things and contradictions, which proof that George Lucas didn't care much about the story.
Number one: Padme is supposed to be 10 years older than Anakin.
Number two: Count Dooku is Palpatine's apprentice?? Isn't he about 20 years older than his master then? Maybe Palpatine said to himself "a young, dynamic man failed, maybe I should get an 80- year old ..."
Number three: why exactly can Anakin and Padme not be together? Aren't the jedi council and the senate supposed to work together? Wouldn't a marriage between a jedi and a senator enhance their relationship?
The best thing about the DVD features is that it tells you exactly why the prequels fail. Whether people want to accept it or not, the technical aspects of the filmmaking were in the spotlight for far too long. Rick McCallum tells us that Episode II is a completely digital film, that the actors literally stumbled from blue- screen to blue- screen. No wonder not a single person delivers in these films, when they are lost in a nothingness of blue and green wallpaper! It DOES affect the performance and therefor the quality of a film!
Then, some guy tells us that George Lucas doesn't really thinks about the question "Is that possible to do?" Well, he definitely SHOULD! That's why you are a director!
Alright, in order to move the industry forward, you've got to have visions and ambitious goals, but you also have to ask yourself "does that work?"
George Lucas only cares about bringing these things onto the big screen, no matter if it works or not!
In a movie, the settings have to be convincing, that's essential. If they don't, the audience gets distracted and the story won't work. The audience is literally thrown into a complete fantasy world, and this world just has to look real in order to make the movie work.
But this isn't the case here! It's like a video game with real actors.
No matter how hard you try, you can't spot a good thing in this flick. It can neither stand completely alone, nor does it have any real ties to either Episode I or III, except for the death of Anakin's mother.
I could give Episode II two stars for the sheer badness, which is almost entertaining, but the ridiculously high average rating forbids that.
By the way, the score also participated in this deterioration process, but for deeper thoughts on that, you can read my separate review.
Please, do yourself a favour, watch the Original trilogy and pretend the prequels don't exist!
43 of 54 people found the following review helpful
By A Customer
Format:DVD
This film is so awful, I could write a full-length thesis paper about it. What's amazing to me is how many Amazon reviewers acknowledge faults in the movie, and still praise it with five stars.
Attack of the Clones is Star Wars for the Attention Deficit Disorder generation. Lucas has overstuffed sequences with frenetic visuals, hoping to distract viewers into thinking they're entertained, desperately trying to compensate for the lagging, flabby plot and woefully inadeqate characterization. It's really more of a glorified video game than an actual film. Wonder which demographic likes Attack of the Clones the most? It's mostly 12- to 21-year-old boys who grew up on Nintendo, PlayStation, and X-Box. Unfortunately, busy special effects alone do not a great movie make. Frankly, the visuals aren't even that great. There was no show of Force at the Oscars when Attack of the Clones lost the Special Effects trophy to Lord of the Rings.
The biggest flaws in this film center around the scenes between Padme and Anikan. First of all, the dialogue is atrocious, with wooden actors delivering hackneyed lines and cliches at every turn. Honestly, this stuff wouldn't even fly in soap operas. Why should we excuse it in a multi-million dollar movie? Secondly their "love" story has no believability, and doesn't develop naturally. Annakin is portrayed as a snotty, arrogant, obsessive boy with a violent temper and psychotic tendencies. So, what exactly draws Padme toward him? Plot contrivances are often awkward or totally head-scratching. Jango sends Zam who sends a droid who sends worms, to kill Padme? And what's with the title? Attack of the Clones? What attack? The clones don't show up until the end of the movie, when they are dispatched to *defend* the Jedi. I will grant the film one star for interesting cinematography and costumes. Also, the fight between Jango and Kenobi is well-choreographed. But give more praise, I can not.
Most disappointing of all, this film is totally devoid of the magic infused into the original trilogy films. Maybe Lucas should have enlisted Lawrence Kasdan, scripter for *two* of the original trilogy movies, including the most critically-lauded, Empire Strikes Back. Lucas is now trying to do everything himself. He wants total control of the universe, but somewhere during his 10-year-plus hiatus from movie-making he lost his edge. Someday twenty years from now, another director will remake the Episodes 1-III. But it will be awhile. Good Star Wars prequels are still "far, far, away..."
51 of 66 people found the following review helpful
By A Customer
If you're 10 or under, I can cautiously recommend this film, but if you're over 14, forget it. This is the most juvenile attempt at action/science-fiction I've ever seen. Simply put, it is a pathetic excuse for a movie. It is clear that their special effects consumed the entire budget for the film, and they had no money left over to pay for actors or a script.
The acting is so bad that it is frankly embarrassing. I felt like I was watching a junior high drama club. "My heart is breaking for you... Yes, but this is a love that cannot be". (barf). They are so stiff and the lines so trite that I think I could find two random teens at the mall who could give a better reading. The script sounds like it was written by a 15-year-old girl who spent the last 5 years overdosing on romance novels.
Unlike the original episode, Attack of the Clones has no fun or humor. It plods along with the bad guys plotting a rebellion while the good guys try to figure out what's going on. There was not one single laugh in the entire movie - not counting my chuckles at the pathetic acting and script.
I thought the visual effects were poor given the budget for this movie. There were a number of scenes which appeared to have the actors standing in front of poorly painted landscape scenes. Even the indoor shots seemed to have a haze about them.
On a 1 to 10 scale, Attack of the Clones barely rates 1.
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Received this DVD in a timely fashion and in good condition. I had to buy come of my star wars episodes as some of them wer not playing well. This was one of them. Read more
Published 7 days ago by Sandra F. Montalvo
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What's not to love?
I bought this for my grandsons who are just entering the world of Star Wars. It's timeless and still entertaining generation after generation. :)
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Then in the theater, I saw it. It could have been better. Read more
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Published 16 days ago by Kat
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Very good movie, despite the cheesy romance scenes.
All in all, I think that Episode 2: Attack of the Clones is a very good movie. I love learning about the Clone Troopers, since it gives the origin of the Stormtroopers, and Jango... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Alyssa
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This is my favorite of all the Star Wars movies. I can't beleive all the crybabies that are giving this movie one star. Read more
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great movie
this was a birthday gift to my son that is 5. My son and his Dad love to watch it together.
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I am still watching the SW series once a year. Star Wars was a ground breaking movies that has continued to entertain and and stir the imagination.
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I was so glad this dvd came with the paperwork inside because I am watching all the Star Wars movies with my 9 year old nephew & he is smart & can keep up with how the sections of... Read more
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We bought this for my 7 yr old nephew who asked for this specifically. We talked to him after he had received it for his birthday, and he was 'over the moon'. Read more
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