Saw it last night.
Overall I liked it very much; it's easily the best of the prequels, and it's certainly worthy to sit alongside the original trilogy.
Of course, there were copious amounts of utter lameness.
The "Nooooooo!" dialogue had me literally laughing out loud at how terrible it was. By far the worst part of the film.
Only slightly less bad was, "But the Sith are evil!" "From my point of view it's the Jedi who are evil!"
Lucas still can't write romantic dialogue. There was nothing as bad as the "sand' scene from AotC, but I groaned several times at some of the lines between Anakin and Padmé.
And I agree that Anakin's fall to the dark side was awfully quick. First he's all conflicted and says, "What have I done?" and then within 10 seconds he's pledging his allegiance to Palpatine.
One of the best parts of the film though, which was sorely lacking in Episode II, was that we do really get the sense that Anakin was a good man. In AotC he was nothing more than an arrogant, petulant jerk, but here he is much more dignified, humble, and noble.
So thumbs up from me, but there was some wasted potential.
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