Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones's reviews
Media reviews
Variety
The strength is back along with the excitement and fun, as well as the bonus of romance in 'Star Wars : Episode II - Attack of the Clones'. George Lucas has reached deep into his own mythological world to bring a grand entertainment that provides a satisfying balance among the series' epic, narrative, technological and emotional qualities.
Rolling Stone
'Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones' is a film full of action, with a spectacular digital design and a dark side George Lucas hasn't flaunted since 1980's 'Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back'. Death, lost mommies, demon daddies and Freudian subtext are a huge improvement over the child touch that Jar Jar gave to 'Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace'.
Empire
The middle episode that can make a virtue of its bridging role is rare indeed. And where The Empire Strikes Back dazzled with vertiginous cliffhangers, Clones is more typical of the breed, necessary but not vital.
The A.V. Club
'Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones' remains pretty and inert, with no authentic emotion, no cumulative power, and no sense of physicality and danger in the action sequences.
New York Times
'Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones' is many things, a two-hour-and-12-minute commercial, a demo reel heralding the latest advances in digital filmmaking, a chance for gifted actors to be handsomely paid for delivering the worst line readings of their careers, but not really much of a movie at all.
Festival Internacional de Cine de Lanzarote