Star Wars II - Attack of the Clones Sci-Fi Adventure Attack of the Clones begins about 10 years after Phantom Menace.  At the end there is Star Wars 1 - 6 gross evaluation. The life of the senator Padme Amidala is in danger. Separatists are not happy with senator's political views, and they try to kill  her. After an unknown terrorist group explodes her space ship, and her double gets killed, chancellor Palpatine suggests, that she would take Jedis to protect her.  After the death of Qui-Con, Obi Wan took Anakin for his padawan. Men are assigned to Padme's bodyguards. Padme and Anakin sets a trap and tries to capture assassins, which are assumed to make another hit soon.. The trap works, but the separatists kill the assassin right after he is caught. People are not very happy about the couple's action. Padme and Anakin are asked to leave the Capital in Coruscant. They travel to Padme's home in Naboo. While spending time in Naboo, the romance between Padme and Anakin gets deeper and more serious. Anakin's puppy love turns into double sided real love affair. Meanwhile Obi Wan chases the separatists. He ends up to a strange, distant planet. From there he finds a bounty hunter Jango Fett, the next link to the separatist group. Besides the bounty hunter, he also finds an enormous clone army. The cloners says, that the army was paid and ordered by Jedis ten years ago, but Jedis know nothing about it. The romancing between Padme and Anakin breaks into nightmares, Anakin gets from his mother. The couple travels to Anakin's home planet Tatoiine, and tries to find out what has happened to Anakin's mother. The bounty hunter escapes from Obi Wan. Obi Wan starts to follow and chase him. The chase ends up quite sadly, separatists  capture Obi Wan. After Padme and Anakin hear about the capture, they fly to save him. But they fail and are also taken to prisoners. The story is told to you by the means of Sci-Fi Action, with romantic features. ? There are 2 story lines in the movie. Another one is romantic story, which tells how the relationship between Padme and Anakin develops. Another one is traditional Star Wars / action story. Stories are integrated together. Excellent Sci-Fi movie, almost 90 million people have already watched the movie in theaters. Suits well for all kinds of audiences. Could recommend the movie also to the people, who prefer romantic comedies from action movies.  Anakin and Padme, getting in love. The picture is from Naboo. The movie was shot in Tunisia, United Kingdom, Spain, Australia and Italy. Shootings took place in late summer 2000.

Franchise Star Wars Sequel Episode 2 Name Attack of the Clones Genre Sci-Fi Adventure Rating PG Year / Country 2002 / U.S. Cast ( Leading Couple) Padme Amidala Natalie Portman Anakin Skywalker Hayden Christensen Cast ( Team Jedi ) Obi Wan Kenobi Ewan Mc Gregor Yoda Frank Oz ( voice ) Mace Windu Samuel. L Jackson Cast ( Supporting ) Chancellor Palpatine Ian McDiarmid Count Dooku Christopher Lee Anakin's Mother Pernilla August Bounty Hunter Temuera Morrison Production Directed George Lucas Writers George Lucas Padme and Anakin on their way to save Obi Wan. Anakin confesses his love to Padme. Touching scene. Good dialogs and well performed.

Star Wars Grosses

Episode Adjusted Grosses Flat Grosses World U.S. Other Budget World U.S. Other Budget 1. The Phantom Menace, 1999 1,217 M 568 M 649 M 151 M 924 M 431 M 493 M 115 M 2. Attack of the Clones, 2002 787 M 377 M 411 M 139 M 649 M 311 M 339 M 115 M 3. Revenge of the Sith,  2005 964 M 432 M 532 M 128 M 849 M 380 M 468 M 113 M 4. Star Wars, 1977 2,761 M 1,385 M 1,376 M 42 M 913 M 460 M 453 M 11 M 5. The Empire Strikes Back, 1980 1,556 M 744 M 812 M 53 M 595 M 290 M 305 M 18 M 6. Return of the Jedi, 1983 1,076 M 647 M 429 M 72 M 519 M 309 M 210 M 32 M The Clone Wars, 2008 70 M  36 M 34 M - 68 M 35 M 33 M -  Totals 8,433 M 4,190 M 4,244 M 586 M 4,519 M 2,218 M 2,301 M 404 M - The overall World wide grosses of the Star Wars movies are 8.4 billions. -  It is the second biggest gross a single movie series has in the world. - A secret agent from United Kingdom, James Bond, has played in over 20 movies - Bond has gathered over 10 billion worldwide grosses. - Harry Potter has 7.0 billions world wide grosses ( 3rd best ). - Star Wars six-o-logy is the best selling movie series ever. With average gross of 1.4 billion dollars. - The averages of next best series ( Lord Of The Rings ) are 1.2 billion dollars - The third, Harry Potter has gathered 950 millions per movie. Star Wars 4 ,5, 6 has been in theater distribution for three times now. The special editions from the year 1997 were very popular, they got almost  $500 million worldwide flat grosses.( $671 M adjusted ) All releases are gathered to a single entry in the table. The Clone Wars is an animated Star Wars movie from the year 2008. 70 million grosses looks quite small in this group.  In some other list 70 million gross would be at least good / notable achievement. Most of the difference in adjusted budgets comes from digital technique. Usage of 3D models and digital backgrounds is much more expensive than the traditional tech. Staff and equipment costs are both very high. Few things about Star Wars movies Star Wars world is a vision from future. It is completely new and fully functional world. Not a result from a big disaster. There aren't many things from the current world. The visualization of the Star Wars world is also carefully done. Everything you see on the screen is new and futuristic. Star Wars movies have fluent and coherent stories. Mr. Lucas is one of the fastest story tellers in the world. All Star Wars movies are loaded with actions and events. One Star Wars movie contains themes for 5 to 10 full length movie. It increases the durability of the movies, and also the range of people, who likes Star Wars movies. Packing everything smoothly into a single movie is not the easiest thing to do. Grosses - Adjusted grosses can be compared with each other.  - Flat grosses are the original Box Office grosses from the time movies were released.  Cannot compare the flat values with each other.  Wages and ticket prices raises all the time. The adjusted grosses are calculated with inflation tables, as a result the changes in the value of money is eliminated from grosses and the values from different years are comparable.