It's like Star Wars "light". Think Star Wars with Muppets.

Rating: 9/10 (22 May 1999)

Don't get me wrong, it's a good movie. It borders on great at times. But it's no Star Wars (ep. 4). It's a LucasProduct, and holds up to those lofty standards...and yeah, the special effects were spectacular, the lightsaber duels with Maul were most impressive, as were the pod race and space battle sequences. But the first 20 minutes left me wondering if I'd wandered into some strange Star Wars/Muppet Show bastard hybrid. The aliens in particular were extremely hard to understand in some scenes that you couldn't read their lips as well. Is it kid friendly? You bet your ass it is. Definite PG, not PG-13... which is fine, but it seemed a bit light on substance and, uh, pathos? It's hard to feel sympathetic for countless scores of robots getting shredded. *BUT* for all that...it's a solidly *good* movie. (but NOT great...only parts of it are.)