Jar Jar must die

Rating: Null/10 (19 May 2000)

I loved the movie, amazingly, despite the perpetual annoyance of that helium sucking computer generated aberration, Jar Jar Binks. Exqueeze me?! I would have thought Lucas below ripping off the Wayne's World movies. And I'm sure part of my disgust at a Star Wars character saying that line comes from my dislike of the Wayne's World movie. Star Wars is the single greatest achievement in the world of Science Fiction. It brought that genre to the mainstream, and George Lucas deserves a great amount of kudos for doing so. He did it without diminishing from the genre, which makes it all the more exceptional a feat. But despite all his achievements, he doesn't deserve the apotheosis his fans have allowed him. Soft, weak, inhumorous, garishly disappointing characters like the despicably abhorrent eye and ear sore Jar Jar are creations that keep Lucas from being anything but a mere, fallible mortal.