I didn't understand the plot until I heard "Weird" Al Yankovic's song.

Rating: 5/10 (14 March 2006)

OK, so "Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace" was a big letdown for us all. Apparently, most people even understood the plot when it came out. It wasn't until I listened to "Weird" Al Yankovic's song "The Saga Begins" - the "American Pie" spoof - on his album "Running with Scissors" that I understood the plot.
But overall, it seems that if this happens before the original trilogy, then the technology should be less sophisticated, not more. Oh well. C'est la vie. It was interesting seeing people like Liam Neeson, Samuel L. Jackson, and Christopher Lee co-starring in a movie after all these years. This may sound weird to everyone, but my favorite character was Jar Jar Binks; why did everyone think that he sounded Jamaican? I thought that he sounded Cajun.
So that's my take on everything here.