disappointed... mostly

Rating: 2/10 (25 April 2000)

I am a big fan of science fiction and the original star wars trilogy but this just didnt really cut it. It seemed to much geared towards children which is apparently what Lucas wanted.
I didnt find the acting too bad, sure Anakin may have been annoying but Luc was also annoying and whiny, especially in A New Hope.... "but i wanted to go to the toshi station and pick up some power converters" hehehe
Amadala and the Jedis were good, especially Liam Neeson's character. I was really disappointed at his death at the end. I would have liked to have seen him in a later episode. JarJar was a pain but mostly because he was too cartoonish, acting silly and always getting into trouble. Although the animation of him was groundbreaking you could still obviously see that he wasnt real, reminding us again and again that the movie is not real.
The bad guys just werent there enough. Darth Maul was a really awesome evil dude but he was barely even in the movie.
The biggest probelm i have with this movie is the plot. I know that more will be explained in upcoming movies but there is things that i just dont understand. Some things that come to mind like why would all the battle droids be linked in such a way that they were all powerless when the control ship was destroyed? What happened to all the ships in the blockade anyway? At the begining there was many many of those federation ships around the planet but at the final battle there seemed to be only one. I would wonder why Qui Gonn didn't dispear when he died, but i suppose that will be explained later. (i hope)
It was also kind of funny to see higher technology then in the original starwars trilogy despite the amount of time passed between the two. In the original trilogy, instead of droids, the federation has to use puny human stormtroopers who can be killed in one shot, armour and all.
The final light saber duel was incredibly awesome and redeems the entire movie in my opinion.
It was funny to see ET at the senate gathering.