Special features: feature-length audio commentary with George Lucas, Rick McCallum, Ben Burtt and others; 8 deleted scenes with commentary; "From puppets to pixels" a documentary on the digital characters, including Yoda; "state of the art: the previsualization of Episode II"; "Films are not released, they escape" sound documentary; 3 more featurettes; "Across the stars" music video; posters and print campaign; trailers and TV spots; "R2-D2: beneath the dome" mockumentary trailer; production photo gallery; web documentaries; DVD-ROM features.

Cinematography, David Tattersall ; editor, Ben Burtt ; music, John Williams ; production designer, Gavin Bocquet.

Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Hayden Christensen, Ian McDiarmid, Samuel L. Jackson, Christopher Lee, Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker, Frank Oz.

Ten years after the events of Phantom menace, Senator Padme Amidala survives an assassination attempt as she returns to Coruscant for an important vote. The Jedi Council send Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker to protect her. After tracking the assassin, but failing to get any information from her, Obi-Wan is sent to Kamino to continue their investigations while Anakin is sent with Amidala to Naboo. While Anakin and Amidala are falling in love on Naboo, Obi-Wan is investigating the connection between the assassination attempt and a growing separatist movement, which could bring the Republic to the brink of civil war.

MPAA rating: PG; sustained sequences of sci-fi action/violence.

DVD, Dolby digital; digitally THX mastered.

Closed-captioned.

English (Dolby 5.1 surround EX), Spanish (Dolby 2.0 surround) and French (Dolby 2.0 surround) language soundtracks. Optional subtitles in English.