Not horrible, but not good either.

Rating: Null/10 (21 August 2000)

Ok, well, let me just start by saying that I am a bigger Star Wars fan than most people. I am not, however, going to brainwash myself into thinking that Episode One matched up in any way to the other Star Wars films. When the Special Edition Star Wars films were released with their computer enhancements, some were good (usually backgrounds), but some were bad (Jabba and Han's conversation). When is Lucas going to realize that computers can only do so much. A lot of the charm of the first 3 movies was the amazing puppetry. At least they were something real and tangible rather than a computer generated mirage. I mean, look at Chewy, for crying out loud! He's a big, furry costume. If he were a character nowadays they wouldn't bother with the costume and make some ridiculous looking computer genrated...thing. And the fact is, computers make things look too busy. That may sound kind of dumb, but just stay with me. I don't care how close to real motion a lot of this computer stuff looks, it's STILL NOT THERE. All of the computer characters movements are too exagerated and deliberate. And no wonder the acting was a problem...they had computer generated main characters. The entire movie they were talking to nothing in a computer generated nowhere. I won't even get into Jar Jar and the idiotic accents of the Viceroys. Basically, I can watch this movie, but there's many parts that make me cringe. On it's own it's an OK movie. Compared to the other Star Wars movies, it hasn't the heart.