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Summary: 25 Word Or Less Review
Review: This is an excellent movie for people with a very low threshold of amusement. I highly recommend this film to the intellectually unambitious.
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Summary: Excellent! But not Up To Par With Episodes 4-6.
Review: True Star Wars fans must have this DVD. The movie is not as good as episodes 4-6, but it is still very good. Leaves you wanting more!
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Summary: The force is with this movie
Review: This is the best Star Wars ever. It starts when Gui-Gon-Jin and Obei-Wan-Kenobi, go on a mission to stop the evil Lord from destroying all good, first they encounter droids, then they encounter droids with sheilds! With the force, they got away safely in a battle landrover, heading in a spaceship to a planet (Something like that), and meet Jar-Jar, at the a planet. They get a water car, (I don't know what it's called) and they encounter four underwater monsters. They Anakin Skywalker, a boy on a desert planet. After a succesful race on a car of some kind (I don't know the name of that either) and battle the new dark player, Darth Maul. When they encounter Darth Maul, with his double-lightsaber, Gui-Gon dies, and it's up to Obei-Wan to kill Darth Maul. I love this story because the fighting is fast and amazing, and because I think it is a nice story. I still think they need less complicated names.
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Summary: ahhh, can't hate lucas
Review: ...rely on the extensive documentaries/featurettes (disc 2) to help convince yourself that this film has 'some' redeeming value... the excessive quantity of dvd extras (actually more entertaining/intriguing than the movie itself) tries to dazzle/numb you into forgeting/rationalizing your profound disappointment in the movie... so maybe it's a rough start, but bringing star wars up to speed with 'contemporary action/sci-fi movie standards' and 'expectation pressures' (especially from the SW over-intellectualizers) is a pretty formidable task. be wary tho and try to ignore the sickeningly profuse lucas kow-tow-ing by his legion of payroll sycophants/workhorse zombies. tho Quantity over quality is the essence of this dvd, how can i turn my back completely on someone responsible for so much of my childhood joy? all starwars fans are forever indebted to lucas for the cherished memories... it's his story, after all.
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Summary: How can you go wrong with Star Wars
Review: The idea alone of making a trilogy and then making the fourth movie in the set the first is genius. The technology won't seem as amazing as it used to because we have come to expect it, but this movie is a good beginning to the explanation of how we got to where we started in the 70's. I was expecting more out of the fight scenes but the characters made up for where the fights lacked. It's Star Wars! How can you go wrong? I can almost gaurantee that you'll end the movie and find yourself doing Jedi impressions.
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Summary: Pitiful and sad
Review: This movie captures none of the mythical story that was star wars. It does not deserve the name Star Wars. It represents a perversion of one of the greatest stories of our life time. I don't understand what happened. Why did he do this? Oh Lucas!
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Summary: Bad acting, good acting, but it answers some questions!
Review: The special effects in this movie almost make it worth seeing. Especially the city-planet of Courasant and Naboo. I was mostly interested in the story; the introduction of Anakin Skywalker and Queen Amidala. I really did find the story very interesting, it answered many questions I had about the how the whole thing began. I did have several problems with the movie, however. The child actor who played Anakin was TERRIBLE. I don't understand why he was cast, unless his family knows someone special. Every scene that he is in makes me cringe. Ewan McGregor, Liam Neeson and Natalie Portman shine. People have commented that Natalie Portman was a bit stiff as the Queen, but I believe that is her character. She is a terrific actress. Other issues were that the pod race scene was way too long. It was nothing more than a shameless display of Lucasfilm Ltd.'s special effects talent. It was boring. Jar Jar Binks was another source of angst. His bizarre accent and nonsense speak was distracting and annoying. Other than that, I enjoyed the movie. I am more looking forward to Episode II this May. Hopefully George Lucas will improve upon the mistakes he has made with the Phantom Menace.
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Summary: Great Movie
Review: I think that Star Wars: Episode 1 was a great movie and the DVD is even better. I love all the special features and Jar Jar is no more annoying than rap or alot of the music today.
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Summary: I'm not a sci-fi fan, but this one is cool!
Review: I generally find sci-fi very hard to follow, but this one was very easy to understand (with occassional explanations from my husband), and Jar-Jar Binks made it very entertaining, regardless of my ability to follow the plot.
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Summary: Amazing DVD package for this great movie
Review: Star Wars: The Phantom Menace got a DVD package that it deserved. Not only is the film finally transferred perfectly to DVD format (complete with multiple commentary by all the important people involved with the films creation) but also comes with a second disc packed with extras. Theres a great 1 hour documentary, all the teasers and trailers, a hoard of mini documentary's, and picture galleries. Many seemed to have disliked this film, and though their opinions are there own, there is no doubt that this film is now part of the Star Wars mythology, and deservedly so. Lucas creates a beautiful universe and it definately shows on this DVD. Pick this one up and see why not only the film was one of the highest grossing blockbusters of all time, but why it's one of the fastest selling DVD's of all time.
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