All in all, the Episode II DVD is truly astounding. Unfortunately, it falls just short of absolute brilliance because we simply get the feeling we?ve done this before. And while I?m all for consistency in the franchise releases I still aspire for innovation, spurning what we know to be safe.

Nevertheless the team at Lucasfilm has put together an amazing array of extras and extends an utterly flawless copy of the movie to the fans. But the lack of innovation within the DVD genre leaves me wanting more despite being such a dependable release.

The film looks and sounds brilliant, reason enough to buy this disc alone. Get it for that at the very least, and enjoy the remarkable value-added material as well to round out a great and timely effort this 4th quarter from Lucasfilm and 20th Century Fox.