Stereotypes and shallow characters...

Rating: 1/10 (11 February 2000)

The visuals in the movie were stunning, but nothing else was really worthy of remaining in my theater seat. It was hard to see any motivation behind any of the characters. They were simply there. Jarjar looked like a revival of Butterfly McQueen's character from Gone with the Wind, very sad in the 1990's. I find the future relationship between Amadala and Anakin especially creepy since she assumed a maternal role in this film. This movie seems like Lucas was trying so hard to keep secrets for the next film that he told us absolutely nothing. I rented all three of the previous films and enjoyed them greatly, so what was the problem here. Also, I'm curious as to Lucas' odd obsession with British actors, given that the other three films were principally played by Americans?!