A special effects-driven bore.

Rating: 5/10 (30 May 1999)

In brief, "The Phantom Menace" is a Muppet movie, without the charm. The "human" performances are, for the most part, worse than a bad read through of a script, with the kid being the best of the lot.

The movie does succeed on one front though. After all, it is a motion picture, and to that end, it is filled with useless, tiresome, but colorful, motion.