Pressure

Rating: 5/10 (20 May 2007)

Not only to write a comment about movies like this one (because many love them, at least as many as that loathes them), but especially and more importantly for George Lucas to make this movie. It's one of the damned if you do, damned if you don't situations, you wouldn't like to be a part of!
So even if I don't think this is a great movie (CG is very good here too, although you might be distracted from CG characters if you've seen them as Muppets, in previous films, such as Yoda), the Saga had to start somehow. And because the pressure was so high and many people didn't think it delivered, they looked for a culprit! And they found themselves one in the (CG) face of one Jar Jar Binks. He's an easy target indeed, but was invented for family value only. Still Lucas took the (Jar Jar) criticism seriously in his next installments ... Chewbacca he wasn't!