Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

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Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

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Liam Neeson, Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Jake Lloyd, Frank Oz

Two Jedi knights, Qui-Gon Jinn and a young Obi-Wan Kenobi, along with a Naboo outcast, named Jar-Jar Binks, must help Queen Padmé save her world from greedy trade executives, and along the way, they d...( read more  read more... )iscover a young boy, named Anakin Skywalker, who has the potential to be a powerful Jedi himself.

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  • magnum32004
    October 11, 2006
    magnum32004
    There are a couple of weaknesses with the first prequel, but, it gets better towards the Podrace sequence and the lightsaber duel in the finale.
  • SirPant
    September 1, 2009
    SirPant
    After all the hype and excitement, I don't think it was ever going to be possible to live up to expectations but they really could have done better than this. The first episode of three that will eventually link the trilogies is really tenuous, not to mention, tedious. Jake Lloyd...( read more), Jar Jar Binks, lame story, lame monsters, Darth 'Pissed off ladybird' Maul... the list goes on as to why this film didn't work. I guess it was just a stepping stone though.
  • phubbs1
    May 7, 2009
    phubbs1
    Looks great, love Mos Eisley, easily recognised as the Star Wars universe and always looks good. There's also an excellent pod race sequence which is the highlight of the film really, apart from that its pretty average but for the exciting Sith lord Darth Maul, he really saves th...( read more)e flick when it could of been a complete throw away, even though it is too childish in many places, Maul's prescense is golden and the fact he dies in such a meaningless way really sums up the disappointment with this film.
    Not as bad as they say, better than most sci-fi flicks even so but with lame characters like Jar Jar and his alien species and other poor designs like the battle droid army and various spacecraft I wonder how this survived, very off and on.
    It still does well simply due to it being Star Wars.
  • garyX
    December 8, 2008
    garyX
    If you think that the Pirates Of The Caribbean franchise is popular, or that The Dark Knight was hotly anticipated you'd be right, but they are NOTHING compared to the impact of the original Star Wars films at the time they were made. Star Wars was not so much a film franchise, b...( read more)ut a virtual way of life to a whole generation. The Phantom Menace was THE most anticipated film ever made, and by that measure, George Lucas had one HELL of a lot of expectation to live up to. And, well, we all know what happened...But now all the hype has died down and this film can be looked at rather more objectively, and there's actually a lot to be admired about it. Lucas obviously surrounded himself with some of the best cinematic talent around. The effects are fantastic, the fight choreography excellent and best of all, the production design is magnificent. It starts fairly well jumping straight into a decent action sequence, and it was hard not to feel a collective tingle up our spines when we heard the sound of a light sabre igniting for the first time in 14 years. And then "oh lordy lordy, where am dat warty melon mazzah?" it's Jar Jar f***ing Binks. We then spend the time in which a planet is being invaded by a droid army watching computer generated fish eating each other while a fish-faced Burt Kwouk impersonator talks about trade embargoes. And there's nothing more magical and awe inspiring than a good trade embargo, eh? There are some decent sequences, particularly the exciting Ben Hur-esque pod race and the space battles but it's obvious that Lucas' technical staff were responsible for those because the rest of the film is just a load of dreary sentiment, dull political manoeuvering and feeble slapstick. We know the likes of Liam Neeson, Ewan McGregor and Natalie Portman can act, so to blame them for their performances is like blaming a jockey for not winning a race when he's handed a three legged donkey. All the faults with this film can be laid squarely at the door of Lucas and his feeble script, and the best analogy I can think of when comparing the original Star Wars to The Phantom Menace is it's like comparing Let It Be to The Frog Chorus.
  • ladyp1964
    November 25, 2008
    ladyp1964
    It's difficult for me to rate a film like this. Do I rate it on how much I like it (which isn't much because I find this scifi film series very difficult to understand most of the time), or by acting (which was very good), by make-up (fantastic) or by special effects (just as go...( read more)od). After watching it 3 times (obviously my son loved it) I even understood the plot. That doesn't mean that the plot isn't good, just that its not the sort of thing I like to watch. I didn't in 1978 when the first (or fourth??) film came out and still don't to this day. C'est la vie!
  • dozent100
    December 22, 2009
    dozent100
    outstanding, lucuas is back
  • Jordan770
    December 22, 2009
    Jordan770
    Needs to see all the Star Wars, hasnt seen one! Maybe a marathon time?
  • eryri
    December 20, 2009
    eryri
    After a 16 year wait, Star Wars was back with a new movie. It doesn't live up to the original trilogy but still enjoyable. Lucas made a mistake in creating that bloody Jar Jar Binks - the most annoying character ever.
  • CharmedRogue
    December 20, 2009
    CharmedRogue
    The only interesting thing was Darth Maul
  • ashervh
    December 19, 2009
    ashervh
    Disappionting. I just want to grab Jar-Jar Binks by the neck and throttle him.
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