Episodes 1 and 2 and 3 interpreted as comedy

Brooks said:

Makes sense, the prequels were comedies... wait, what?  They weren't?!?

From the chefelf site:

The Meeting
"Annie? My goodness you've grown." "And you've grown. More beautiful." This sets it in motion. The groans filled the cinema as this scene just refused to die.

"You're going to be the death of me."
A part of me almost enjoyed this. I can't explain why but I kinda thought that this was the only good joke of the movie. All evidence points to it being embarrassing so I'm going to at least pretend to take that stance instead. Yet another "Because of what's going to happen..." joke that need not be included in the movie. I kinda liked it... I can't explain why.

The Kiss
In this scene the audience is left stunned as Anakin begins saying to Padme that, "I don't like sand. It's coarse and irritating and it gets everywhere. Everything here is soft and smooth." You can sense they're going to kiss but you think that you must be wrong because everything up until this point has showed Anakin to be a total numbskull and that she must be creeped out. When they begin kissing you can't help but wonder why it's happening. The music gets loud and grand but then she snaps away and the music cuts quickly leaving a decaying reverb in the theatre and it's just plain comical. You can't help but laugh out loud.

"This party's over." So Mace Windu, everyone's favorite Jedi for some reason, shows up and saves the day. He puts his lightsaber in front of Jango Fett and actually says, "This party's over." It leaves one wondering if Arnold Schwarzenegger is going to be playing a Jedi in the next film.

M'Lady
I can't believe I missed this the first time around. What is it with everyone saying "M'Lady" all the time? They didn't say this in Episodes IV, V or VI. They didn't even talk like this in Episode I. So why do people all of a sudden talk like it's the nineteenth century? Should we expect powdered wigs in Episode III?

I remember hearing something too about the part Anakain goes, If you are suffering as much as I am please tell me.  And some guy in the audience yells, You have no idea!  or something like that.  And everybody burst out laughing.

Episode 3:

Droid I.Q.
The Phantom Menace introduced us to the battle droid, the Trade Federation's primary mode of killing its opponents. Attack of the Clones brought us the super battle droid, basically a battle droid with no neck and blasters built into its wrists. Revenge of the Sith brings us a closer look at the super battle droid, particularly the stupidity thereof. While two super battle droids are examining the crashed Jedi starfighters nearby, R2-D2 tries to hide. One of the droids overhears Artoo's cell phone and the two droids have the following exchange:

SUPER BATTLE DROID 1: What that?
SUPER BATTLE DROID 2: Get to back to work. That nothin'.

Giving droids personalities is something George Lucas is quite fond of. However, it is unusual that he would choose to give droids called "Super Battle Droids" the personalities of complete morons. Aside from the ridiculousness of their voices, they aren't even speaking properly. I am already skeptical of the reasoning behind programming audible language capabilities into battle droids. Purposely programming them so that they don't speak properly seems like an unnecessary frill when you are concerned with winning a war. Maybe adding extra guns would be more beneficial than having them act like thugs from the 1920s.

General Grievous

Nearly any possible potential fear of Grievous is eliminated as soon as he doubles over to begin hacking and wheezing. It is already relatively difficult to be scared of a robot with emphysema, but any remaining potential for fear is removed when he begins talking and it becomes clear that his voice is simply Triumph the Insult Comic Dog doing an impression of Watto from The Phantom Menace.

Count Dooku

Here is a brief snippet of those snappy lines exchanged between the Jedi and Sith:

OBI-WAN: You won't get away this time, Dooku.
COUNT DOOKU: I've been looking forward to this.
ANAKIN: My powers have doubled since the last time we met, Count.
COUNT DOOKU: Good. Twice the pride, double the fall.

Apparently 100% of the cutting remarks used in the lightsaber battle were taken directly from the back cover of The Beginner's Dictionary of Cliché Cutting Remarks For Sword Fighters, First Printing.

"I shouldn't have done that..."
When Anakin kills Count Dooku by slicing his head off with two lightsabers, he stands there for a moment and looks troubled. He then says "I shouldn't have done that." It's interesting because that is the same thing I say when I have one too many slices of chocolate cake and get a tummy ache: "I shouldn't have done that."

Romance
The scene on the balcony degenerates into a lovey-dovey kissy-wissy wittle wuvvy woo sequence rather quickly. In the middle of discussing the different outfits Padme wants to buy at the Coruscant Baby Gap, Anakin interrupts her to say "You... are so... beautiful." Perhaps he's just trying to get her to stop talking about baby things. In that case, men everywhere should consider themselves Padawans to Anakin. Unfortunately, this scene gets much, much worse.

The Jedi Code
Anakin brings up again that the Jedi Council is asking him to do something that is "against the Jedi Code." This is not, I believe, the first time that the Jedi Code is brought up in this movie and it is far from the last time it will be mentioned. Rumblings about the Jedi Code are scattered throughout this movie by Anakin, Obi-Wan and even Palpatine (as I recall). But what is the Jedi Code? Funny you should ask. It is simply this:

There is no emotion, there is peace
There is no ignorance, there is knowledge
There is no passion, there is serenity
There is no death, there is the Force

Funny. That's a pretty simple code. Obviously, it's open to a lot of interpretation. There are points in this movie when I began wondering if I was thinking of the wrong code. Perhaps what I was thinking of was merely the Jedi slogan or the Jedi credo, but no, I was thinking of the right thing.

The way the Jedi Code is handled in this movie would have you believe that it is a 400 page manual. There are constant references to doing things "against the code. " They only stop short of stating specific passages. "Jedi Directive 44387 clearly states that any Jedi engaged in communications with a Jawa after sunset shall forfeit his Jedi membership card and lightsaber for three days and be docked a week's pay."

"From my point of view the Jedi are Evil"
While Anakin and Obi-Wan are surfing along the lava pools, Obi-Wan tells Anakin that he has failed him. Anakin responds by saying that he should have known that the Jedi were going to take over. Obi-Wan shouts to Anakin, "Palpatine is evil!" to which Anakin replies, "From my point of view, the Jedi are evil!"

Do evil people say things like that? Do good people say things like that? In an irrational combat where each is trying to kill the other, do people really talk about their points of view? Suddenly, this has become a well-mediated debate rather than a fight to the death. "Please try to see things my way, Obi-Wan! Walk a mile in my shoes! Please! Or I will have to kill you!"

And there are lots lots more...

"I ate you!"

Only a Sith deals in absolutes.

LOL...read this abridged script:

http://www.the-editing-room.com/revengeofthesith.html

Almost every bit of dialogue between Anakin and Padme is laughably bad.

"It's because I'm so in love!"

"No, it's because I'm so in love with you!"

How about when Jar Jar is guilted into taking Padme's place in the senate?

"If only... Senator Amidala were here..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfBhi6qqFLA#t=07m24s

This is why I consider fan-edit efforts to make the prequels total failures... the prequels are only worth watching in their original, hideous form.  Because at least they can then be enjoyed for their humor factor.  Remove the humor and they're just dull.

3PO during the arena cartoon battle:  Im completely beside myself......this is such a drag. 

concerning the use of "m'lady":  I think "malady" would have been better suited instead,  defining the inclusion of  Natalie Portman in SW movies' in the first place.

Such magical one liners that is the PT.  Seriously though,  the sad thing is that the jokes' on us, the people who initially expected to see 3 quality movies,  to provide an epic foundation to the global phenomenon that is the OT.  And instead we got a maelstrom of shatty acting, writing, dialogue, and silly pun jokes. That combo alone could qualify EP-2 and 3 for a B-movie 2a.m. time slot on Comedy Central.  I heard more laughter from the cheesy, circus-bad lines in the theater than from the intentional pun jokes.  Luca$ took a once epic saga and all its integrity, and starting in 1997, slowly turned the SW universe into a giant goat-fuck.  Im sure the PT was interpreted as comedy to Luca$, as he laughed his way to the bank knowing he suckered so many people into thinking they were getting OT caliber movies, and instead paying to watch god awful, ham-fisted, half-cocked movies and and all the damn merchandise.

TV's Frink said:

Puggo - Jar Jar's Yoda said:

This is why I consider fan-edit efforts to make the prequels total failures... the prequels are only worth watching in their original, hideous form.  Because at least they can then be enjoyed for their humor factor.  Remove the humor and they're just dull.

:-(

Well, adding humor I'm totally fine with.

Hoth-Nudist said:

3PO during the arena cartoon battle:  Im completely beside myself......this is such a drag. 

In fairness, I remember going to see Episode 2 with my mother back in '02 and she's not a Star Wars fan.  She LIKED those lines; she thought they were funny and talked about them after the movie.

She also liked the part where Anakin is whining (He's overly critical, he never listens, he doesn't understand!  that part)]

Basically she liked all of the traditionally least liked parts.

Hoth-Nudist said:

3PO during the arena cartoon battle:  Im completely beside myself......this is such a drag. 

concerning the use of "m'lady":  I think "malady" would have been better suited instead,  defining the inclusion of  Natalie Portman in SW movies' in the first place.

Such magical one liners that is the PT.  Seriously though,  the sad thing is that the jokes' on us, the people who initially expected to see 3 quality movies,  to provide an epic foundation to the global phenomenon that is the OT.  And instead we got a maelstrom of shatty acting, writing, dialogue, and silly pun jokes. That combo alone could qualify EP-2 and 3 for a B-movie 2a.m. time slot on Comedy Central.  I heard more laughter from the cheesy, circus-bad lines in the theater than from the intentional pun jokes.  Luca$ took a once epic saga and all its integrity, and starting in 1997, slowly turned the SW universe into a giant goat-fuck.  Im sure the PT was interpreted as comedy to Luca$, as he laughed his way to the bank knowing he suckered so many people into thinking they were getting OT caliber movies, and instead paying to watch god awful, ham-fisted, half-cocked movies and and all the damn merchandise.

Good, now, tell us how you really feel.

One of my favourite lines from Sith:

I have seen a security hologram of him killing... younglings!

I almost blurted out "WHAT?!" and laughed my ass off when I heard that. I honestly expected the music to go DUN DUN DUNNNNN after he said it. Ewan's worst line in the whole trilogy.

TV's Frink said:

Okay, then just for you I'm making a special edit called "The CPY Chronicles." :-)

A W E S O M E

The reference to sitting ducks makes sense given that we see ducks in Theed. Well, they look like ducks anyway.

And Anakin saying "from my point of view the Jedi are evil", well earlier in the film we see Palpatine going on about "points of view" (and I don't mean the BBC programme where people with better things to do write in to complain about the quality of Auntie Beeb's programmes) so I've always taken that line as being that of an easily manipulated character who still somehow knows he's in the wrong and is desperately trying to justify his actions (in the same way that I'm trying desperately to defend the dialogue in the prequels).

Nice avatar, Bingowings.

"I wonder what happened to poor little Artoo. He's always getting himself into trouble." Always gets a big laugh from me. But then I still laugh at Jar Jar getting his head trapped between the power couplings.

Easterhay said:

But then I still laugh at Jar Jar getting his head trapped between the power couplings.

In a malicious, sadistic way, I hope.