I agree with Silent Bob - this was weak

Rating: 3/10 (10 October 2001)

Everyone else seems to have already said my opinion, so I'll just run it down real quick: 1-Acting is cold and sterile 2-Too many direct parellels to other Star Wars (e.g., Jedi dying in front of student, escaping large animal in ship) 3-special effects look cartoonish, like "A Bug's Life". Lucas and his crew spent hundreds of Million to prove that computer graphics still aren't as lifelike as shooting real-life miniature models on film (like the other films). 4-Jar Jar 5-I STILL don't have a real good grasp of what the hell is going on 6-75% of the film seemed to be a Pod race 7-Anakin making C3PO is hokey 8-The force being something of a microbe, a physical entity in the body, blows it for me. I liked to think of it as a sort of Zen-like concept, an Eastern-religion feel. Let go of your normal consciousness and let "the force" take over. It was mystical, supernatural. Now it is a bacteria. Not quite as romantic.
I sincerely hope that Episode 2 and 3 are more thought out.