The prequels ARE full of striking, memorable images and moments, but they have to click just as regular movies, too. When the audience laughs at Anakin and Padme, something's not right. Maybe the regular test screening process would have helped, instead of just showing it to Ron Howard and Spielberg. The IMAX version of Clones was 20 minutes shorter. Whether it was better or worse, just that fact that that was even POSSIBLE should be a clue to something. I actually don't think that Jake Lloyd was a bad actor, he was given a part essentially written as a 13 year old. When you're 9, that is a huge gap, and is just never going to seem natural. On top of that it's Star Wars dialogue, which is hard for even the likes of Alec Guinness. I'm actually amazed he worked at all.