Incredibly bad!!!

Rating: Null/10 (27 January 2000)

I love the Star Wars Trilogy. I was really anxious for this movie. It has so many problems I could list them from now until eternity.
Terrible special affects. The pod races just plain stunk. The flight patterns and effects seemed like a cartoon. The underwater city and council were just repeating computer generated graphics. Totally worthless.
The end battle did not seem as a battle at all. You would think computerized warriors would be able to do more than walk slowly and shoot? Of course, in the Trilogy, you would say there should be computerized warriors and human fighters would not be needed or useful, but the use of human fighters did bring the battles to be realistic looking and not absurdly held back to equal the parties.
Inconsistent with the other stories. Clearly Lucas wrote in the C3PO and R2D2 characters due to audience demand. C'mon Anakin created C3PO? Give me a break! Plus Obiwan did not own R2D2 before! That was a interesting development in Star Wars that is now twisted in meaning so Lucas could include the droids!
*** Spoiler Alert - I don't know if this is considered a spoiler or not, but in case it is, here's a warning ****
Weak storyline. Nothing of dramatic substance happened in this movie. Anakin podracing to win his freedom from slavery really does not build the drama of the Darth Vader characters early years at all!
Cameos galore! All kinds of things were put in this movie as a hidden cameo! This is a classic sign of movies attempting to offset lack of substance.
A Kiddy Movie! The humor in this movie was definitely for kids. Despite what Episode I's defenders say, the Star Wars Trilogy movies were never aimed at kids. They were not children's movies. They were family movies. There is a huge difference.
Jar Jar Binks. I think everyone elses complaining on this character is sufficient!
This movie seemed to be more to satisfy consumer demand for it than by George Lucas's inspiration to make it. The incredible inclusion of cheap filler in all points show the vision and passion and content of the Trilogy are not what caused this movie to come into being.
An absolutely horrible and disappointing film. If you took the words "Star Wars" off of this film, it would have been in and out of theatres very quickly.
I wanted to walk out almost at every point. I wish I had.
0 Stars out of 10.