From a SW fan!

Rating: 10/10 (6 May 2000)

Well, to the ones who dislike the film:
Its cool to bash films in this day in age. Its cool to make fun of people. This is a very cynical time that we live in. And the ones who bash this film are the most cynical of the bunch. How can you live with yourself. Stop taking your life so serious, if you keep being cynical throughout your entire life, your never going to have any fun. Thats the point of life, to have a good time and this film will give that to you for 2 hrs.
This film is everything that ANH was, the same type of story, the same type of characters, etc. The characters are wonderful, they arent fully developed yet, much like in ANH. They will be developed in the next 2.
You cant really judge this film alone, you have to look at the bigger picture. You cant just look at this one film and come up with an opinion. You have to look at the entire saga as one BIG movie. Its called a Saga people.
TPM is a myth of a myth. The Original Trilogy was a myth for the ages. It took from all kinds of religions, stories, etc. and blended it together in its own way. It expanded our imagination into another place, another time, another part of ourselves that we've never really ventured to before. It takes a very powerful film to do this. And the OT were powerful enough.
TPM brings us back to this galaxy far, far away that we all grew up on. It introduced us to new characters, but also to old ones, with some new faces. Its everything that the OT was and is. Its fun, its deep, its everything you could ever want from a film series.
You have to look at these films with an open mind. They are not cynical, like most films now-a-days, they are not violent, they are simply fun.