LUCAS DISHES - 'SPIDEY SILLY' & MORE 'STAR WARS'

At the recent Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Gala -- you know, the one where Cate Blanchett arrived looking like a ghoul -- Hollywood deity George Lucas had a few interesting things to say, namely to Fox News about a small film called "Spider-Man 3."

Lucas told reporter Roger Friedman that he's seen all of the huge tentpole films due to some out this summer since his company, Industrial Light and Magic, does their special effects.

Interestingly, the only one ILM didn't work on was "Spider-Man 3." Hmmm, so what did Lucas think of the webhead's third celluloid appearance?

"It's silly. It's a silly movie," he said. "There just isn't much there. Once you take it all apart, there's not much story, is there?"

DISS!!

Yes, I love it! First screenwriter John August comes out and says it and now the grand-poobah of summer films says it's dopey as well.

He continued. "Well, it's not "Star Wars. People thought 'Star Wars' was silly, too," he added, with a wink. "But it wasn't..."

BTW, there's good news space geeks - Lucas says he's busy prepping "Clone Wars," an animated series for TV that's derived from "Star Wars" universe.

Furthermore, Lucas also told Fox that he will make two more live-action films based in the "Star Wars" era. "But they won't have members of the Skywalker family as characters," he said. "They will be other people of that milieu."

The duo of new films won't be on the big screen, however, and will also go straight to the boob tube somewhere.