EVERYBODY SEEMS TO BE PUTTING THEIR SPIN on the new Star Wars movies:

George Lucas, sometimes accused of reinforcing racial stereotypes with his movies, has done it again, according to critics.

Latino critics in particular charge his latest Star Wars epic, Episode II: Attack of the Clones, toys with American paranoia about Mexican immigration with its cloned army of swarthy lookalikes who march in lockstep by the tens of thousands, and ultimately end up serving as Darth Vader’s white-suited warriors. . . .

Lucas was in Cannes and could not be reached for comment.

I just hope, rather weakly, that this new one won’t suck.

Professor Bainbridge, on the other hand, levels a more serious charge against the forthcoming one. “In choosing to put those words in Obi-Wan’s mouth – ‘Only a Sith thinks in absolutes’ – Lucas did more than just play to Hollywood left-liberalism. He betrayed his own creation.”

The specter of “Mr. T.” is also invoked.