Absolutely stunning, action packed, beautiful and awe-inspiring.

Rating: 10/10 (20 May 1999)

Forget all the people poo-pooing this movie, I thought it was great! What I can't understand is how everyone is saying that the characters are not fully realized or that they're cartoonish and stiff. Did anyone SEE the original Star Wars? Everything being said about Phantom Menace could be said about Star Wars.
It was inevitable that this movie is going to be put under a microscope and picked apart mercilessly. It seems that everyone has the "been-there-done-that" cynical attitude that wasn't so pervasive in the seventies when the original came out. Just go and see the movie for what it is.for what the original was.great entertainment!
It's a great ride.