I was going to write a review of "Attack of the Clones", but it seems that someone else has beaten me to it: "Evil Gerald"

Triumph for Lucas as new Star Wars film hailed as "not shit"

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Peter Walker of the Evening Standard has been even more effusive. "Lucas has really come up trumps with this passable, mildly diverting movie", he wrote. "It's not appalling, and that's good news for Star Wars fans everywhere".