Extremely overblown effort. Very Disappointing.

Rating: 6/10 (26 July 2001)

POSSIBLE SPOILERS: The good news is that there is at least one interesting character in this movie that actually has personality. The sad news is that he's a gambling slave owner. Yes, you heard me right. Watto is the best character in The Phantom Menace, the first movie in the Star Wars saga. The strange thing is, this is supposed to be thirty years before A New Hope, and the creatures are more life-like, the ships are faster, there's more dramatic battles, and there's whole armies of droids that are much badder than the Stormtroopers. This sounds more like Episode 101, doesn't it? The effects are overblown and there is an extreme over-reliance on CG effects than there is story. The acting is absolutely terrible. It's kinda sad to see all these good actors not even try to make something out of an already crappy script. One more thing: Jar Jar sucks.
6/10