Phantom Who?

Rating: 6/10 (22 May 1999)

I am going to say it...people were yawning around me! Yes it's true and all you Star Wars fans know it. I wanted to love this movie so much. I have waited for 16 years for this. I feel that this is a movie in search of an audience. Lucas failed to identify his market, is it for kids? (12 year old boys?) as he said. Is it for adults, like myself, why then the insufferable Jar Jar Binks? This character is a pale shade to Chewie! (who never talked this pseudo Jamaican accent.) The best comedy relief came from R2 and C3PO and it was so brief! (pardon the pun) I thought they didn't know each other? How could a mother let her boy go with a strange man so easily? You mothers out there, would you do that? OK that's enough complaining. The visual effects were incredible, the pod racer was stunning. The light saber fight was interesting (but growing tired). Don't send me hate e-mail. I am a bigger Star Wars fan than you think. I guess I just have high expectations.