Not quite the Class of Episode IV-VI, to much animated passages. I missed the charme of the Storm Troops (real men) or the Ewoks.

Rating: 7/10 (8 September 1999)

I went to "The Phantom Menace" to see how the story began and therefore I must say, George Lucas did not forget anything important for the following Episodes. But i was disapointed to see that the underwater world on Naboo was an animation which remembered at any point at a computer game called "Schleichfahrt"(sorry, I don't no the english name)and I preferred that one. And the invasion troops where pure animation too. A film composed in the virtual reality and in this point a very good piece of work. But for a Star Wars Movie "Episode I" missed relationships as Chewbacca and Han Solo had, emotions as the Ewoks showed and something like the "humanity" of the storm troops, which means I always could imagine that the stories of Star Wars could become reality in a far away future, but "Episode I" seems to be virtual reality of our days.