Star struck; "Attack of the Clones" and "Hollywood Ending."(two films)

When the first "Star Wars" movie came out, in 1977, many of us admired it as an enormous spoof. Despite some startlingly fresh elements -- enchanted landscapes, a bestiary of snouted, furred, and beaked creatures gurgling in Urdu -- the movie felt like a joking homage to "Buck Rogers" and "Flash Gordon." The white-suited mugs running up and down corridors with their little ray guns; the high-school-cafeteria banter between Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford; the elocutionary stiffness of the serious moments; the stoically fourth-rate actors in minor roles -- how else could one take such scenes except as intentionally banal? But those of us who enjoyed the first picture as ...