The Phantom Piece of Crap

Rating: 1/10 (4 April 2003)

This is all special effects and no real story. Top notch actors like Liam Neeson, Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman and Samuel L. Jackson are forced spew out horrible dialogue and, even worse, they aren't even allowed to spew out the horrible dialogue with passion. Jar Jar Binks is an insult to human intellect as we know it; he doesn't even look like a real creature. In fact, none of the digital characters here do. The backgrounds look real enough, but the digital characters just don't look real. George Lucas has become so blown over by how much easier computers make it that he forgot you still have to make it look real. Not to mention that the story just plain sucks, undermining everything we knew about Star Wars from the first trilogy. It should have been all about the young Obi-Wan Kenobi and him meeting Anakin and them going places and doing stuff. Shame on you, George Lucas.