I agree and that's why I try to blame the actors as little as possible for these mistakes. I know that Liam, Ewan and Natalie are excellent actors given the right situations and guidence. I haven't seen Hayden in anything else and have no idea based on AOTC or ROTS if he has potential to be a good actor- there were too many variables against him. What was probably needed to meet GL's new style of filmmaking were not so much 'actors' as people good at improv- that's why 'The Green Screen Show' (or either version of 'Who's Line Is It Anyhow' for that matter) work so well. A good improv artist usually ONLY has the very vaguest of ideas thrown at them and usually NO props and have to not only create an entire 'world' to themselves but ALSO have to believably project that world to an audience. Of course GL wouldn't have liked people running with his ideas like they do in improv but the performances would have been so much better.

That and some actors are just used to it. Ian McDiarmid is not a better actor than any of the other of the cast and yet to me he comes off just thatmuch more skilled- but then again its old hat to him. He's played the role, he knows GL's style and he seems comfortable just saying and doing whatever.

And as far as the tennis ball, Tom Hanks did pretty well with a volleyball for a co-star.