Could easily be made better

Rating: 5/10 (12 January 2000)

Just remove Jar-Jar Binks, and already you're up running against the original trilogy. But there is more to it than that. Isn't it weird how the technology seems to have developed about a hundred or so years, when in fact the story takes place some 30 years BEFORE episode 4? And how clean and shiny everything is compared to the great ruggedness of the original series? And how terrifyingly bad Pernilla August's acting is? Well...it's just a film. Nothing really special. But I can understand if the kids love it - it is really not a film for Star Wars lovers. It's a film for the new generation of Star Wars lovers, who never got to see and hear the legend growing...