I don’t mind the “I don’t like sand” line, although it’s not very good.

The love story is awful though. Anakin starts off like a creepy stalker like everyone says. Padme brings Anakin into a romantic setting, dressed very sexy, but says “No, Anakin, we can’t do this.” Wearing a reavling bustier isn’t the best way to stifle the obvious romantic feelings your bodyguard has for you. RobotChicken spoofs this perfectly.

Geonosis looks too much like Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Barsoom/Mars. Younger audiences wouldn’t catch the reference, but I did, and it took me out of the movie.

The Jedi forbidding romance among their order seems to close to Earth-religions, and all the criticisms that go along with them. You can argue, and I’d probably agree, that it was Lucas’ attempt to show the Jedi weren’t completely perfect either, and to sympathize more with Anakin’s eventual turn. However, it didn’t make me sympathic towards him. It just made me dislike ALL the Jedi.