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Star Wars - Episode I, The Phantom Menace (Full Screen Edition)

Star Wars - Episode I, The Phantom Menace (Full Screen Edition)

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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Fun for everyone
Review: What ever you feel about Jar Jar Binks, seeing it a second time I enjoyed it. Not high brow.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: MAN!!! This is NOT what I expected...
Review: C'mon George!! What happened?? The first three were of course, great. But Episode I was just Ok. I had waited a really long time for this one to come out, and I was somewhat disapointed. Better luck in the next movies.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: I don't care who hates it--I LOVE IT!!
Review: I had never been a fan of Star Wars before this movie-I was a kid then, sure that the Science Fiction of Star Wars was a bunch of confusing mumbo jumbo, weird, dumb, boring. We had watched one in 3rd grade, I didn't even watch it at all.
But you know, I'd had never cared enough to see them. Never even given it a chance.
I was in 6th grade-I believe. It was in a Time for Kids magazine. An article about this movie-me first thinking "oh, stupid old Star Wars" absent mindedly. But, that afternoon, I was stuck in the car with my older sister, (an 8th grader at the time) wiht only this magazine to entertain us.
As we looked through the two pages dedicated to this movie, we became a little interested-"This doesn't look so bad" we were thinking. I remember Queen Amidala's headdress catching my eye. "Who is this?" I wondered. It seemed very interesting.
As we informed my dad how this movie didn't look so horribly unbearable, He told us "Yeah, Star Wars. The originals are very good. I've tried to tell you before.Sure, we can go and see it."
I remember the night we had planned-my dad was getting home late from a job he had to do-and I was actually nervous. What if he didn't get home in time for us to see this movie? I had a feeling inside-a feeling that somehow, this was going to be a movie I would really enjoy.
He turned up a little late, and we arrived in the theater as the "STAR WARS, EPISODE I THE PHANTOM MENACE" Writing screen was scrolling. I sat down, a little more excited than I thought I would EVER be about 'stupid old Star Wars'.
It really saddens me-honestly, makes me very very sad-how badly this movie is ripped apart. As I left the movie theater, I was enthralled, entranced-and most of all, totally SURPRISED. Star Wars wasn't dumb, old, or stupud. It was AWESOME, AMAZING, IMAGINATIVE-and more than I ever thought it would EVER be.
I watched the other Three later the same week-and loved them, finding my favourite character, Leia, and just loving these movies even more.
Jar Jar Binks is a fresh, halarious, comic relief character-he had me laughing so many times, and made me really love him fro all his thousand faults. Star Wars is made with love and effort, by a man who has a vivid imagination and a love for what he does. Jar Jar was meant ot be a lovebale, funny, great chracacter-and that is exactly what I think of him as.
The actors portrayed roles not easily filled with perfection and an amazing quality that kept me in this movie.
I love it-I will love it forever. Star Wars will always be special to me-it showed me a new world and a new way to look at everything. It has charm, humor, wit, heart and of course, The Force. And I don't mind at all if I am pelted with Unhelpful votes.
Star Wars will always be...Star Wars, to me.
And that's all that there is to it.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Amateur Effort
Review: Having thoroughly enjoyed the first two Star War movies and suffered through the third with the little folks in the koala bear suits, I didn't expect much from the fourth and received even less than I had hoped for.

How could Lucas have gone so badly wrong? No director in his right mind would attempt to interleave multiple unrelated action scenes: meanwhile back at the ranch, back to the other ranch, back to another ranch, back to the first ranch, etc., and hope that any of them would have dramatic impact. The scenes with Anakin's mother were painfully poorly edited; you or anyone else could do better. They were pathetic examples of the film-makers art.

This pathetic excuse for a movie seems to me to be a product of putting the cart before the horse. Instead of special effects supporting a story line about people and their interactions, human actors instead fill in the blanks between special effects. The result was uninteresting, threadbare and worst of all, childish and amateurish. Human actors were an inconvenient component in a super-animation movie. If technology could have allowed Lucas to replace them altogether with computer generated imagery, he would have dispensed with them entirely. The film is a Saturday morning cartoon.

This was the first of more than one sad ending to a fantastic movie trilogy.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Eye candy
Review: While this episode has had it's critic. We should be reminded this was not intended to be "Gone with the Wind". We should, however, take this movie for what it was "eye candy"! It does also begin to build nicely the background information we will need to know as our loveable little Anie becomes the villianous Darth Vader. While the story lines do conflict, occasionally! Recall in episode V, Obewon tells Luke to seek out Yoda "the Jedi master who instructed me". He must have forgot the time he spent with Qwi Gon Jin. However, we can and should look pass those minor Faux Pauxs and recognize the nearly flawless special effects. As well as some new and very loveable characters. Not to mention some interesting social commentary, like a planet that is one very big city. Think about the palpatations that some of our environmantalist fiends must have had at that thought. Finally, this is a movie that I am extremely happy to have in my movie library. I might also add this is a movie that will, I think, stand on it's own as a movie classic in the truest sense of the term. Ok I'll stop drinking my George Lucas Kool-Aid, but if you want a relaxing evening at home with popcorn, your family or a friend, and a very good family friendly action adventure kinda movie it would be tough to do better.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Worst Star Wars movie.
Review: This movie did NOT live up to the huge hype that was started by it. Sure, it's Star Wars, and it sells. But the quality of this movie doesn't deserve to be sold. Overall, the acting was OK, with, in my opinion, the best acting being done by Ewan Mcgregor as Obi-Wan. I'm not even going to start to criticize Jake Lloyd's performance as Anakin "Annie" Skywalker, because everybody has already criticized it enough. I know that all of these actors are very good ones (I just saw Episode II, Natalie Portman was awesome in that movie, and has improved vastly from Episode 1, as was the Anakin Skywalker character played by Hayden Christensen, and Ewan Mcgregor has improved even more from his great performance in Episode 1). The comedy that was attempted NEVER even started to be funny in the minds of adults or teens, as Jar Jar Binks wasn't funny at all. The only good parts were the Darth Maul fight, since I am a fan of Lightsaber combat, and the Yoda parts, since I am a fan of Yoda.

I'm sorry to criticize so much, I've never liked critics who overly criticize things, because frankly, they couldn't do ANY better. Neither could I. But as a Star Wars fan, I was disappointed. I'm glad Episode II passed up my expectations. I was not the least bit disappointed with that one.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Waiting so long...barely worth it..still not enough!
Review: Pretty Good Video, but the audio can sure let you down at times, and the fact that we waited a while for this DVD, can't explain why Lucas couldn't of slapped on a DTS track in the first place. I rented this so I could get a dose of the special features and see some deleted scenes, and compare with the full screen video version with the DVD. It's good, and I like to see a wider shot of things.

But someone, PLEASE KILL JAR JAR BINKS. He's the reason why this movie doesn't pass for me and why Star Wars Episode I was such a big disappointment. He also ruins the sound quality, and he hurts my eyes, so yeah, you can tell he is pretty annoying. But the DVD passes, not the movie. But the DVD is a disappointment as well, if Lucas made us wait so long, where is the better quality?

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: AWESOME EFFECTS ,OVERALL GREAT MOVIE
Review: this movie tells you what happend to Anakin Skywalker and how he started out as a nice young boy . This episod showed the true nature of darth vader as a youg boy.The movie,in my opinion,is,I have to say, the best movie I've seen in years but, STARWARS:EPISODE 2 is far more better though.STARWARS ROCKS!!!!!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Is this a good movie , or not?
Review: These are my rating and reasons......

Color:7/10
The color was good but it some parts the color was too dim or faded.
Music:9/10
The music was absolutely wonderful . The music matched the way the movie was playing.
Structure:7/10
The structure was switching back and forth in the movie.
Acting:9/10
The acting was very well acted . There was , I think there just one part that was a tiny bit weird on how they responded when Anakin lifted off in the spaceship thingy.
Sound:8/10
The sound was noticeable but some sounds were too quiet top hear.
Special Effects:7/10
The special effects were not all that good because if u compare to a computer animated scene with a real scene , you would be able to tell the difference.
Cinematography:8/10
The scenes in the movie were wonderful but a little ... to look at.
Costumes and Makeup:9/10
The makeup was wonderful and the costumes were nicely done.
Emotional:6/10
The movie wasn't really suppose to make u sad , mad , or happy . The movie was only exciting . It has barely and emotional impact .
Overall:(70/90)~~~>77%

My personal of the movie is 6/10!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Good, but...
Review: If you're buying this video box set instead of the DVD, you must be a star wars collector. Don't get me wrong, I like the movie. But the extras that are included with the VHS box set just do not warrant a 30$ price tag.

Do yourself a favor and buy the DVD instead. You'll save 10$, and overall I think you'll be happier. I know I am!


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