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...plot? It's boy (Anakin Skywalker, played by Hayden Christensen) remeets girl (Natalie Portman's Padme Amidala), and a noble Jedi knight (Ewan McGregor as Obi-Wan Kenobi) meets a naughty one (Count Dooku, incarnated by Christopher Lee). Joseph Campbell might have got a kick out of the mythic reverberations, but for the rest of us the story is a thin clothesline on which to hang some terrific computerized beasties (the iguana hashslinger Dexter Jettster, the tall, graceful llama-lamas of planet Kamino) and fab set pieces (a treadmill struggle in the clone factory). Lucas guides these scenes with ingenious...
...films with the strongest acting and densest mood are The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi--the two that Lucas didn't direct. That may be the bargain a director makes when he goes over to the digital side. He can animate a pixel but not a Portman. An often enchanting presence, the young star is stiff and humorless here. Christensen has to carry the emotional load. And he does a fine job: his Anakin is both a petulant, impetuous boy and a young man with an appraising stare. He suggests a mind eager for action, restless...
...Binks makes his return as the most annoying character ever captured on celluloid, but nothing could deter die-hard fans from this latest installment in George Lucas’ Star Wars saga. Luke is still but a glint in his father’s eye as Natalie Portman and Hayden Christensen pursue their ill-fated love affair between battles with Jedi Rebel Dooku and his band of cloned droids. Will the “force” of photogenic actors overcome the dark side of a potentially plotless prequel? As Yoda might say, “Wait you must...
...Attack of the Clones, he has been a hot topic on the Internet and a magazine cover boy. The Canadian, 21, had only a few film and TV credits when he screen-tested for the role that will make him world famous. "He gave a great reading," recalls Portman. "He could simultaneously be scary and really young." After shooting Clones, Christensen shrewdly took a supporting role in the drama Life as a House, which was released last year. His performance as a troubled teen earned him nominations for Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild awards. More recently, he starred...
...Christensen and Portman must decide what to do before summer 2003, when they go into production on the next Star Wars film. Portman has completed her credits for a B.A. in psychology but may go back for another year of college. Christensen, besides choosing his next movie role, is facing the prospect of life in a glass house. "I think I'm a pretty grounded individual and will handle it as well as anyone my age would," he says. "Or maybe I'll become a big mess. Who knows...