me speck Jar-Jar taste like chicken

Rating: 5/10 (17 June 1999)

Hype. Too much hype. Not enough time behind the pen. We don't care about special effects. When will they get it? It's fluff, do it when it makes sense, stop writing scenes around it. And a 10 minute pod race? What the? A great trumpet player could hold a high E for 60 seconds, that doesn't make it art. Lose the weird alien versions stereotypes of earth, e.g. Jamaican Jar-Jar, Asian Traders, and Italian Junk man. That's just stupid-creepy. A tip for Lucas, who wouldn't listen, although he has more money than the Pope and could afford to take a chance at losing marketing: Write dialogue, develop the characters, give your main bad guy a speaking part. Give your main good guys a chance to act with out S-FX help.
Lucas sold my childhood, but the Wachowski Bros. bought it from him. See the Matrix. THE MATRIX, I promise you, The matrix is the new Star Wars. But good luck finding an action figure for it. The Matrix doesn't have Ewoks. If you like the mythology Star Wars is based on, you'll love the Matrix. The Matrix. See it. Right now. Or, better yet. Do like I did and go see it right after you see Phantom Menace... it'll cheer ya up!