The Clone Wars as a name sounds reallty cool. The way Luke says, "You fought in the Clone Wars" in the first movie makes it all the more interesting. It turns out that the Clone Wars is an insurrection brought about by the Emperor and the Clones fought on the Republic side. It should have just been called the Insurrection or the Seperatists War.
The dialogue in the original trilogy was actually quite good. You might have a bad line here and there, but it worked for the most part. The dialogue in the sequals is wooden and boring.
As for the cast, Ewan McGregor, Liam Neeson, and Natalie Portman are great actors most directors ould kill for. Portman has been turning out great performances since 1994's Leon, the Professional and Beautiful Girls the next year. However, she sometimes ican be a little wooden. Jake Lloyd was a kid and you basically rolling the dice when casting kids in general. Hayden Christiansen is a good actor in the two other movies I've seen him in. However, he played Anakin the exact same way he played his Life as a House character, who was a sexually confused, drug using, father hating bratty teenager.
Attack of the Clones was poorly written and worst of all, boring. It plodded along with its banal dialogue and wooded acting. There were moments were it looked like it would get better, but it didn't. Then comes the arena scene and I was pumped to see all the Jedi do their thing. Well, a few of the Jedi looked good, but the rest looked like they were taken out of Central Casting for the day, were given lightsabers, and told to wave the lightsaber around. Then comes the duel with Yoda, who looked like a green Sonic Hedgehog bouncing off everything.
Revenge of the Sith was a slight improvement, but the dialogue was still bad and it seemed like every other scene was Anakin returning to Padme and their conversation was: "I don't want you to die."
"I'm not going to die"
"I don't want you to die"
"I'm not going to die"
"I can make it so you don't die"
In my opinion, the hyped up lightsaber duel was a big disappointment.
I don't care about the midichlorines or Anakin having no father because they are really not dwelt on or important beyond giving Qui Gon the motivation to take Anakin with him.
Also, the way that Lucas treats C3P0 is horrible. He thinks it's funny to have Anakin build him, to have Anakin steal him from the Lars, and to have him as humor during the battle in Attack. I don't think he would have done that with a human character.
The two of the main villians(other than Palpatine) of the last two movies were poorly concieved. Dooku, other than his name and the fact that he is played be Christopher Lee, is not interesting and is mainly a place filler for Vader. General Grevous is a total bust. I don't think I should be expected to watch a poorly hyped cartoon series in order to find out about a character.
Finally, the overreliance of CGI. It should be used to enhance the story not as a substitute for it. The actors don't like working with it. In, the original movies, Lucas had to come up with solutions when something he wanted could not be acheived and the films were better for it. In the prequals, it looks as if the first thought was, "That would look cool. Get ILM on that." and the story was secondary.