Review of Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) by Dean S — 06 Jan 2016

I first watched Star Wars The Phantom Menace when I was 13 years old and I thought it was a good film, now that I am 28 years old and watching it again I feel a lot different about it. Some things about the movie are still good, the visuals and the music but other things I notice a lot more now.

The dialogue for some of the scenes is bad, Jar Jar Binks and the gungans should never of really been in the movie, Darth Maul should never of been killed off and I agree with most people who say "Anakin should of been introduced as much older and already trained".

I don't think we need to see Anakin as a boy, it also makes the love story later on in the series to seem a bit creepy as Padme is much older than Anakin. I agree with people who say it was the most anticipated film of all time and I believe that even if this was a very good film some people still would of been disappointed. I think also being a prequel it makes it harder for the audience to get excited etc etc because with prequels you already know the basic story if you have watched the original trilogy.

We know who Obi-Wan is already, we know who Anakin becomes, we know that Senator Palpatine will become the emporer, things like that. We know at some point Padme will die as well since she ain't in the original trilogy.

All in all, The Phantom Menace isn't terrible, It is just the weakest film in the Star Wars saga. I'd still recommend watching it, unless you are a Star Wars fanboy who will insist you skip this movie and just start with Attack of the clones.