Review of Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) by Kate M — 19 Dec 2017

It is hard to review a movie as boring as this when there are so many superior edits of the movie. The Phantom Edit is easily a four star movie fan-edit, The Fall of the Jedi is four and a half, but the actual Phantom Menace movie itself gets a meagre two stars out of five.

The Phantom Menace is still the most disappointing movie out of the whole Star Wars saga so far, but it's still better than the whole of The 'Transformers' film series and certainly more entertaining than emo-vampires and werewolves who can't act to save their life.

There IS good in The Phantom Menace but throughout its two hour and ten minute runtime, it tries to evade Jar Jar's moronic actions and tries to forget about the struggling Jake Lloyd. A good movie is fighting to get out of this overstuffed clutter fest.

Thank you again, J.J. Abrams, for saving The Star Wars Saga with The Force Awakens. And thank you for not bringing up *shudders* the 'midichlorians'. The Force is a power and philosophy than cannot be explained via bacteria; it never should have been in the first place.