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Summary: I have a bad feeling about this . . .
Review: A mediocre begining to the Star Wars saga. It seems like it is aimed at children too much for adults to care about it. Also missing is the sharp irreverance that the first films had. Lucas' dialogue reads like it is to be acted with the same importance of Shakespears. Even more offensive is the Steppin'-Fetchit Jar-Jar Binks. A character that is so annoying you hope that he gets killed off. Soon. Please. What the film really lacks is a strong, menacing evil figure (similar to Darth Vader) to contrast the good. The evil in the film is almost amibigously dull. Overall, nice special effects but a cardboard story.
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Summary: Why not on DVD?
Review: A movie with the amazing visual and audio quality of Episode 1 deserves a DVD version. Face it, only using the VHS format is like releasing a new music recording only on cassette tape. Just for this fact, I give the VHS version of Episode 1 a single star.
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Summary: May the crud be with you!
Review: A multi million dollar answer to The Blair Witch rip-off! God help us all if this is the way of the future for the cinema. I'd talk about its faults, but there are just too many. You'll not get one more cent out of me George!
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Summary: George Lucas does it again!
Review: A must have in your dvd collection! This movie does exactly what it was intended to. And that was to set up the story for the entire Star Wars legacy. The sound and picture on this dvd are superb. It is loaded with many special features that make it worth the price alone. If only Lucas had the technology back then to make the special effects for 4-6...
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Summary: Star Wars Upgraded
Review: A Prequel must move us from a trilogy that I watched from start to finish over 30 times and fit into the sequence as smoothly as possible. The Phantom Menace did that for me. Yes, there was some lack of a specific villian but it had to tie back into the trilogy and get us back to Darth Vader. We're there and ready for the next action packed movie. I intend to buy this on DVD and suggest that you consider the same action.
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Summary: Why not DVD!
Review: A pretty good attempt however I think that Lucas draws too much appeal from the inevitably high level of nostalgia that Star Wars fans have from growing up with the original trilogy. Much more could have been done with the movie. The special effects are cool and all but w/o a solid script and core cast of characters that draw you into the story in a manner that is independent of the previous movies...ahem...works of art, long time fans are left with a bit of a sinking feeling. In short, those who saw the previous films will enjoy Phantom menace on a totally different level than the moviegoer who has not. (provided they realize that the new installments will never measure up to the institution that is STAR WARS.) But, in the words of Dennis Miller, "Thats just my opinion, I could be wrong!"
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Summary: Make Jar-Jar more serious & it'll be better
Review: A promising movie but somewhat dismal. Great SFX however. The "opening story" of the "Star Wars" saga. John Williams' score saves the movie. The Pod race steals the show.
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Summary: Well, I think I don't know what I think, y'know?
Review: A random mishmash of good and bad. Varies from scene to scene, often within the scene. In honor of the movie's plot, I'll list the good and bad in short blurbs, paying little attention to style.THE GOOD: Special effects, settings, Ewan, Liam, Darth Maul, it is Star wars, Portman's cute, plenty of dvd extras, musical score, opening scroll, mercury ships, and Yoda. THE BAD: Jar Jar, Jake, ethnic allusions, teenagers flirting with pre-adolescents, plot, misplaced odes to droids, dialogue, kid's mother, queen's clothing, bumbling robots, pod race fiasco, miticlorions?, Jake, and Jar Jar. All this having been said, I've watched the DVD a dozen times and have disliked it fractionally less with each viewing. What does that mean to you? I have no idea, flip a coin, buy it or don't.
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Summary: Enough already
Review: A short time ago, a group of reviewers picked Phantom Menace as the worst sequel of all times. Wrong. It is the worst prequel of all times. Thin plot (essentially no plot reversals). The information theory people would say that the predictability of the action makes it an "information-free" medium. Come on, Mr. Lucas, we've had enough of this insipid fare. Give up and admit that the first three exhausted your studio's creativity. Hang up the light sabre.
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Summary: oh dear
Review: a tip for the film industry when following up on a successful film or films try to remember what happened in previous films. george lucas ignores all that facts from empire eg ben was trained by yod,the force is a living energy field.
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