Abominable screenplay stands out...

Rating: 6/10 (26 February 2007)

There is one thing about this movie that just sticks out like a sore thumb: the screenplay. I try not to bash movies too much because of their screenplays...but the screenplay in The Phantom Menace is speechlessly abominable. Absolutely ridiculously horrendous.
"I'll try spinning, that is a good trick." I mean...what were you thinking Lucas? Do you honestly think that, among many others, is a good line...? I promise you it gets worse than that...but I can't remember them right now and I don't want to anyway.
Unfortunately the screenplay...if you can call it that...makes the acting pretty bad. I want to think it is not the actors but the lines they are given to say that makes them look laughable. Jack Lloyd...ugh. At least Liam Neeson and Ewan McGregor weren't THAT bad.
I don't really expect blockbusters to have good scripts...but there is no excuse for how bad the script is in this movie.
I don't know what to say...I gave it a 6/10 because it was entertaining, because the effects were great, and because the music, of course, was incredible...but other than that...
As I said before, I don't consider myself very picky when it comes to lines...but...this is an exception. A big exception.