Okay . . . we went yesterday . . . went with three kids and five adults . . . I so expected to hate it . . . I told Lorraine to wake me if I fell asleep . . . I fell asleep during Episode Two at a digital theatre in Los Angeles . . . sorry, but teenage angst just bores me to tears. I did not fall asleep. On the contrary, I really really enjoyed the movie! Big time.

Possible spoilers below so stop reading if you haven’t yet seen the film.

I am a Star Wars fan . . . big time . . . my heart was broken just a bit when my daughter was bored to tears with Episode Four on DVD . . . but, to be fair, it is rather quite the old movie now . . . maybe she’ll like it better when it comes out in stereoscopic 3D (hopefully, 2007 according to the plan announced by Lucas).

The fight scenes for Episode Three were amazing, the action was wonderful . . . well, except for the battle between When Dooooo and Palpitation . . . for two kick ass fighters, why are they just standing there?

The fight between the Chancellor and Yoda rocks and the battle between Obi-Wan and Darth Vader is one of the best one on one fights in all of Star Wars history . . . wow.

George Lucas can NOT write or direct a love scene. He really should just stop it as those scenes brought the energy of the film wayyyy down. Either bring in someone else to direct and write or stick to the action.

I know her faith is supposed to set us up for his later redemption when facing his goody goody son in Episode Six, but Padme has to be a bit beyond blind to think there is even an ounce of good in Anakin after he slaughtered younglings . . . good way to demonstrate someone is now suddenly completely evil . . . butcher a bunch of frightened kids.

The lava river barbecue scene was a bit much for the kids with us but they found the love scenes to be most objectional. Big time.

Jar Jar has no lines! I actually sang and danced a bit of a jig just for that. 🙂 The only thing that would have been better is for him to have been skinned alive and eaten by Evil Anakin cum Darth Vader. Or, even better, not to appear in the film at all.

I personally missed the whole Bai Ling naked tattoo slavegirl scene thing . . . I really think Lucas should put it back for the DVD edition . . . only because you can never have enough tattooed naked babes in a film. Really, it can only enhance a film.

Fun film. A strong ending to the series . . . or, rather, beginning.

Really looking forward to the 3D versions.