Uncle George let us all down

Rating: Null/10 (21 May 1999)

Anybody that says this is a good movie is in serious denial. It would be like a Star Trek fan walking out of Star Trek V saying "Yeah, I can't wait to see it again!" You take the Star Wars brand name off, and you're left with a bad movie. A movie that plays like a Star Wars knock off, instead of the real thing. Uncle George says that he doesn't care about the adult fans. Star Wars was always about the kids. Wrong. The first Star Wars appealed to adults as well as children. This new movie is aimed at children under 10. By making this movie as stupid and inane as possible, George has narrowed his potential repeat audience. And this also hurts the next two movies as well. People will say there is no way the movie could live up to the hype. They're wrong. There's a couple of scenes, like the senate hearings and the lightsaber dual, that shows us how good the movie could have been. Instead we're forced to sit through lame comedy bits by cartoon characters that are more annoying than Barney the dinosaur.