disappointing...

Rating: Null/10 (11 March 2002)

when i saw this film in the theater, i thought it was great, so great in fact, that i saw it two more times. why? because i was starved for fresh star wars material, and when you are starving, chitlins taste as good as a moist, delicious honey baked ham. when i watched it later, parts of it were quite good, but the parts with jake loyd in them were simply horrible. hell, i didn't even mind jar jar that much, he was stupid and annoying, but he was comic relief and not to be taken seriously. the lines that lucas gave to jake loyd were god awful, and the delivery was even worse. when you are writing a movie that is supposed to tell an epic story, it seems like you wouldnt want to have your characters spouting one liners, let alone by the kid from freakin' jungle all the way. lucas wrote the part of anakin way too young, and way too stupid. an older actor, perhaps one that could act, would have been much better, and any future romance between anakin and padme would have been much more believable. it is not hard to imagine with only slight changes in casting and scripting, this could have been a vastly superior film.