# Why is Star Wars 2 receving raves from Europe, but not from U.S. critics?

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**Created:** [May 10, 2002, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-star-wars-2-receving-raves-from-europe-but-not-from-u-s-critics/108381 "2002-05-10T22:27:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2002, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-star-wars-2-receving-raves-from-europe-but-not-from-u-s-critics/108381/21 "2002-05-13T20:20:17Z")

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One factor: Foreign critics see a subtitled or dubbed version, which means they don’t hear the dialog. Since one complaint was that the dialog was crappy, that’s not as obvious when you’re reading subtitles.

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