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Summary: MANY FLAWS BUT GOOD ANYWAY
Review: Personally I think there has never been a better movie but as it went along I saw many flaws. 1. How could Anikan build C-3PO if Cybot Galactica were the ones that designed him. 2. How can they mesuer the Midichlorins if the FORCE is all around. 3. Why didn't Darth Malue screm when Obi-Wan sliced in half. Even though he was instantly dead he would have felt something. 4. Why didn't Qui-Gon die instanly. 5. Why don't more Jedi members speak. 6. Last I herd R2 didn't have any thing to make him stay on a ship especally when it went to hyperspace. As soon as I can think of more flaws thats all I have to say.
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Summary: Great Movie
Review: Personally I thought that this film had more action than the rest of the trilogy combined. This film features good performances from Liam Neeson and Ewan McGregor and George Lucas did a good job directing. I reccomend this film.
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Summary: Excellent DVD, if anything else...
Review: Personally, I loved the movie, but I know most people didn't, so I'll review why you SHOULD buy this DVD.The best feature is a documentary about how they made the film. It is over an hour long, and is well worth the price of the dvd...just that one feature. There are many other documentaries (4 that run around 8 minutes each), which are very interesting to watch. Those who hate the movie -- watch it one or two times on the DVD. You will begin to realize that Jar Jar Binks really isn't in the movie that much. You will warm u pto it, and end up loving the movie. Buy this DVD.
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Summary: Decent Racing Film
Review: Phantom Menace is a futuristic sci-fi film about stock car racing. The movie starts out with two English fellas dressed in medieval pajamas. They run into a character named Jar-Jar Binks who looks like a walking platypus and talks like a sissy Jamaican. He takes them to an under water city where the people look like frogs and talk like Africans except for the two bad guys who sound like Japanese samuri. Somehow the English fellas and the platypus end up in southern Utah. That's where the big stock car race is held, except these stock cars are powered by twin jet engines and don't have any wheels. Most of the drivers are alien critters who look like something even my mean old tomcat wouldn't drag in. Which is just as well cuz you don't feel bad when they get killed which is pretty often. One of the English fellas wants a little boy to race his car but the boy is busy being a slave to a giant flying bug who talks. The bug ain't too slick and the English fella gets him to agree to letting the little boy drive. Once the race begins the little boy doesn't have to do anything but hold onto the handlebars which is real fortunate because he couldn't act his way out of a wet paper bag. After the race is over they drag the movie out way too long. A bunch of stuff happens that don't make no sense, part of it involving some weird chick with a lipstick impairment and a practical joker for a hair dresser. One of the English fellas gets killed and they never make it back to Utah. Reckon that's in the next film. I give this film three stars. The stock cars crash real good but they should have put the race at the end of the film.
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Summary: This movie scores in as one of the best
Review: Phantom Menace is truly one of the greatest movies ever made and combined with this great package its amazing. You can NOT buy the pan and scan version of The Phantom Menace and have the true experience. By the way I believe Jar Jar is a great character and most have not realized how great a character George Lucas invisioned, he really adds to the quality of the film.
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Summary: Star Wars by way of the Muppet Show
Review: Phantom Menace is yet another example of Hollywood trying to create drama, suspense, and entertainment through the use of special effects without any real essence of well crafted storytelling. The movie is chock full of banal dialogue, along with ridiculously silly characters. Here you have human characters that are so one dimensional that you find yourself actually drawn in to the Muppets that appear in the film (Muppets you would expect in a Barney children's show). However, as is the trend in Hollywood, it seems that this sort of sophomoric movie-making is respected (i.e. "Titanic's" sweep of the Oscars a few years ago.) And I will state that Jar-Jar Binks is so grossly annoying and stupid a character, that his appearance would hugely diminish a great film, of which Phantom Menace is NOT. So here, the damage was unestimable. Stick with the original three, or rent it for your early gradeschoolers. Oh, by the way, the special effects were great.
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Summary: Bland story with beautiful special effects
Review: Phantom Menace may have had unfair expectations to live upto being the most anticipated sequel in film history, but expectations aside, this movie was mediocre. So many of the strengths of the Star Wars series, the interpersonal relationships, humor, mystique and cavalier adventure is not in this film. Every character in the film speaks in monotone except for the annoying Jar Jar Binks who has more lines than Liam Neeson's Qui Gon Jinn, the Force, once seen as an all powerful, romantic spiritual power is now reduced to phenomenon that occurs because of intracellular metaclurites. The storyline seems immature and childish. The true potential of many characters including Darth Maul and Qui Gonn are not explored to any acceptable potential. What saves the film from being truly terrible is its breathtaking cinematography, computer generated landscapes and the fabulous lightsabre duel between 2 Light Jedis and a Sith Lord (that unfortunately is chopped with intermissions of Jar Jar trying to be funny). Using George Lucas's own words, "special effects without a good storyline is boring". Maybe George forgot this, or maybe he and his company Lucasfilm have set a ball rolling that has so increased the level and breadth of film making that it even surpassed the old master's abilities. Hopefully Lucas won't let us down with Episode II.
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Summary: Was that what we waited for?
Review: Phantom Menace was a disaster. I waited in line 18 hours to see that piece. I love the original three and if the next two prequels follow Phantom's lead then oh well, the first three starting in the late 70's were brilliant. Special effects? Yeah, very nice, (yawns) but the story was terrible. The characters didn't interact well at all. Two much of a disney style movie, lots of cute characters. And can somebody tell me what was up with idiots like the two headed pod announcers? Poor George Lucas should not of taken that long to make the movies. He doesn't care about the movies, just his special effects and "look I can make this computer character look like the same character I had in the original in a rubber suit but now it's digital." To bad the rubber suit looked more natural then that pathetic Jar Jar Stinks. And fart jokes? Sorry I will pass. And I suggest anybody who has been lucky enough to not see this pile to not see it, it will make you cry. So a DVD? Who cares, it can have 50 hours of extra footage, it was still a crappy movie and one of the biggest dissapointments in film history. Don't take my word for it, but the hundreds who were with me on opening day who after could do nothing but talk about how much it sucked. Have a nice day:)
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Summary: Wonderful andventure, the force is in it
Review: Phantom Menace was a terrific film for young and old Star Wars. There is lots of action, suspense and fun in it. It may run long but it doesn't let up to entertain. The podrace scene is one of the best action scenes ever to be made and Darth Maul is a menacing foe in a huge finale. Yoda was never better as a little grump either.
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Summary: FANTASTIC MOVIE!
Review: Phantom Menace was great. I am so tired of reading bad reviews on this movie and hearing how silly and unbelievable come of the characters were. COME ON! This is a fantasy /Sci-Fi movie... they do not get much better than this. When the Star Wars Saga began.. (A New Hope), the reviews were bad...yet that movie went on to be a classic.This movie is well worth seeing ..the video a MUST !
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