I love the reviews, I think they're hilarious and yet very informative. This guy obviously knows a lot about making movies and successful storytelling methods because he doesn't just repeat what plain bashers have said for years. For example, he doesn't criticize Jar Jar other than calling him a cartoon rabbit and someone who should not have left the ship on Tatooine.
One of my friends in our college's anime club also watched the reviews and we couldn't stop saying "What's wrong with your face?" the whole night at our last screening. (impersonating the voice of course) Best of all, we even did our own Mystery Science Theater for a couple of shows and in the Saint Seiya episode, one of the characters wore a mask. So you can probably guess what the most common riff was.
I do think the Clones review could have been a little better because while there are probably too many things wrong with it to cover in 10 hours, I think he would have been better not to spend one 10 minute segment on just one point. Like how Samuel L Jackson was miscast and overuse of lightsabers could have combined with other parts and he could have focused more on how confusing the whole thing is.
I think ConfusedMatthew hit some points about no explanation given for the Separatists wanting to leave and why it was the job of the Jedi to stop that. Sure, I know "Palpatine's behind it all," but what do the separatists like Nute Gunray think their honest reasons for leaving are? How would they justify their actions?
And I actually thought the part of Anakin saying he wouldn't mind a dictatorship was an interesting part that could have had more potential storyline and intrigue. It sounds bad the way he says it but I think there are a lot of people in real life who wouldn't mind tyranny as long as the dictator was a "caring" guy who only forced people to do things that were "good for everyone." It wouldn't be such a bad thing if a leader forced the "right" morals on everybody else, we just need a good "planner."
So that was one of the points where I thought the prequels had a chance to make stronger themes and less superficial and cliche plot than even the original trilogy.
Still awesome reviews however. I even paraphrased one of his lines for a course evaluation in a class I thought was lousy.
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