The Marketing Menace

Rating: 1/10 (27 May 1999)

"Hey, let's make a movie to sell some toys!". That's the commitment. How dare George Lucas to say this movie is a relief of this cynical age... Some people said that the movie was made to amuse kids, not critics. I say those kids are not stupid anymore. I don't care about the "timeless saga": this movie is a yawning lapse of time. I know George Lucas -and all the industry behind him- doesn't care about what I'm writing here. He just wants more money to buy more machines to do CG animation for Steven Spielberg and the rest of clan. The script is redundant and pretentious -uuh! Anakin is like Jesus Christ-; the performances are stiff as an old table -just the Queen shows some acting wood-; the CGFX are nice due to a well-inspired art direction... Well, George Lucas destroyed in minutes whatever he had created all these years. Please, open your eyes and be sincere... Don't let the marketing brainwashes you.