Why????

Rating: 1/10 (6 April 2006)

Before this movie even came out, I already knew that it was going to have fancy computer-generated effects, and the technology in this movie will look more advanced than the original 3 episodes, even though this movie takes place way before. In other words, it makes it look like the technology has gotten more primitive. I thought I'd still give it a shot. When it came out on DVD, I rented it to see what it was like.
The bad points:

Anakin is an annoying little kid, and Jake Lloyd is a horrible actor in this movie

The special effects are way too fancy. Way too much computer animation. What ever happened to good old puppets?

The pod race scene is boring, even though it is supposed to be exciting

They call Anakin "Annie"

The aliens aren't interesting at all

Jar Jar needs to be strangled

Darth Maul is only in the movie for a few minutes, and he hardly has any lines

The plot hardly makes any sense

I could continue this list for hours, but I think that about covers it.

The good points:
Wait, there aren't any!
I seriously give myself lots of credit for being able to sit through this garbage even once, after which I said "Never again". I brought it back to Blockbuster and got a refund. I can't believe that this movie got 3 Oscar nominations, and another 11 wins and 48 nominations. This just shows how phony Hollywood really is. If you haven't seen it yet, do yourself a favor, and pop in one of the original 3 movies instead.