The Great Muppet Caper features a whole slew of Muppets on bicycles, and Follow That Bird has Ernie and Bert flying upside down in a biplane.
The movie suddenly flips from being live-action to a cartoon and it is very jarring to see. Maybe it’s not fair to say the animation is bad, it’s just that it looks like animation! We are at the end of a live-action film and suddenly we get a scene that looks like it came out of the Clone Wars cartoon.
The second case of horrible animation is the introduction of the Grand Army of the Republic. I know George Lucas really wanted to incorporate as much CGI as possible in the Prequels but this scene just didn’t turn out and it was unnecessary, so it should’ve been cut. Thankfully, it doesn’t last too long and Anakin falls off the critter and fakes being hurt so Padme can come to his rescue. The animation is poor and it looks completely fake, and it takes the viewer out of the scene and movie altogether. We go back to the young picnickers and suddenly Anakin is surfing on top of a wild Nubian beast. The scene ends and we cut to something else. Anakin and Padme are having one of their usual awkward conversations. The second is the scene where some of the senators and Palpatine overlook the clones. The first is on Naboo where Anakin rides the weird-looking giant anteater-like beast. There are two scenes that stick out like a sore pulsating thumb. One glaring issue with Attack of the Clones that doesn’t hold up over the years is the poor animation and special effects. Lucasfilm Entertainment Company Ltd., All Rights Reserved Horrible Animation Star Wars: Episode 2 – Attack of the Clones (2002).