History YMMV / RevengeOfTheSith

* BaseBreakingCharacter: Grievous is either an awesome [[MultiArmedAndDangerous four-lightsaber-wielding]] cyborg or an ineffectual wuss of a villain, with many of his detractors likening him to the DastardlyWhiplash archetype (for an example, see [[http://silentfilmstarwars.ytmnd.com/ this YTMND]]). It doesn't help that he gets severe BadassDecay after the non-canon ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsCloneWars Clone Wars]]'' micro-series, where he was slaughtering Jedi left and right. His status as a FountainOfMemes does help endear him to some however.
** People who have been watched the end of miniseries are also still liked him, then going to make an excuse how he become weak.

* CriticalDissonance: It gets enough flak from the fans that its Website/RottenTomatoes rating of '''80%''' might surprise some people, especially considering this was nearly identical to ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'''s former score of 79%. The score of the latter film has since gone up, but it doesn't make much of a difference. Though for what it's worth, even the film's haters usually concede that it isn't as bad as the other two Prequels--see SurprisinglyImprovedSequel below.

*** There's a reason for this: for reasons known only to George Lucas, much of the fight was filmed with Creator/IanMcDiarmid - a 59-year-old Shakespearean actor with no sword-fighting experience - instead of his stunt double, with only five days of practice. Footage with the stunt double can be found on Youtube and it looks ''much'' better.

** The film starts with a massive space battle in low orbit above Coruscant, [[CityPlanet a world whose entire surface is essentially one ginormous city]] with ''one trillion inhabitants''. In other words, there's millions upon millions of tons of metal being blown up in the sky in short order, and that stuff is very unlikely to stay up there for more than a few minutes after it's separated from whatever was keeping it airborne. Even if not a single stray shot is produced by all the MoreDakka and BeamSpam being traded between the capital ships, the duelling fleets' falling debris ''will'' hit Coruscant like an entire barrage of meteor strikes, flattening huge urban areas and invariably killing countless millions in the process. Not to mention the ''other'' half of the ship that Anakin crash-lands on the surface. Nothing of the sort is ever mentioned on-screen, however, and scenes showing Coruscant after the battle depict the city as flawless as before, which makes this trope cross straight into NoEndorHolocaust - oh, the irony. The novelization, however, follows through to [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome the logical conclusion]], stating that falling debris has caused a great deal of damage and civilian deaths.

** A good chunk of the dialogue between Anakin and Obi-Wan just before their duel at the end of the movie sounds awkward, but it manages to be gutwrenching and powerful nonetheless. It arguably wouldn't be nearly as memorable or impactful if it had been worded any other way.

** Arguably, "Backstroke of the West," of all things, improves on two lines:

** Pretty much every scene with Palpatine. Creator/IanMcDiarmid is devouring scenery left and right in his performance, and the delivery of some lines (such as the infamous "Do it" and "POWAH") is a little weird. But Palpatine is such a deliciously evil villain (and [=McDiarmid=] is so obviously enjoying himself in the role) that they end up as some of the most awesome and likable scenes in the whole prequel trilogy. And ultimately, he is still an utterly evil monster who proves to be quite dangerous.

* OnceOriginalNowCommon: While it had highly polarizing reception, the film was considered a breath of fresh air at the time of its release for having a [[DarkerAndEdgier very dark tone]] and tragic plot that let it stand out from the other two Prequels, not to mention [[JustHereForGodzilla depicting Darth Vader on-screen as a villain for the first time in ages]].[[note]]While Anakin spends roughly half of the film as "Vader", he only appears in his iconic suit of armor for one scene at the end of the films.[[/note]] However, Disney's ''Star Wars'' films have caused the film to go through UniquenessDecay; contemporary ''Star Wars'' films are consistently PG-13 and are less blatantly "toyetic" than the Prequels, and the suited Vader reappeared in both ''Film/RogueOne'' and ''Series/ObiWanKenobi'' (the latter show even having Creator/HaydenChristensen reprising the role) with much more impressive and terrifying scenes than [[{{Narm}} the]] [[MemeticMutation one]] he was given in ''Revenge of the Sith''.

** Boga, she giant, quadrupedal bird-lizard creature (known in-universe as a "varactyl") that Obi-Wan rides on Utapau and makes a distinctive, guttural, high-pitch squeal.

*** There's a reason for this: for reasons known only to George Lucas, much of the fight was filmed with Ian McDiarmid - a 59-year-old Shakespearean actor with no sword-fighting experience - instead of his stunt double, with only five days of practice. Footage with the stunt double can be found on Youtube and it looks ''much'' better.

* MisaimedFandom: People sometimes argue in complete seriousness that TheExtremistWasRight regarding Mace Windu attempting to arrest Palpatine ("You see, Anakin? I told you it would come to this. The Jedi are taking over!"), not helped by Palpatine arguing in the better-received novelization that merely being a Sith isn't a crime. The Jedi ''aren't'' arresting him for being just a member of a rival religious group, they're arresting him for instigating [[Film/ThePhantomMenace a military occupation of a member state]] and [[Film/AttackOfTheClones the current rebellion against the Republic]], and now for ''trying to overthrow the government''.