Review of Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) by Dave S — 24 Dec 2015

I hate to say it, but there are many things that I still like about this movie.

Likes:

Music. Duel of the Fates is Amazing.

Costumes. Well done.

Coruscant. What is there not to like.

Lightsaber battles are still dazzling.

Liam Neeson. I actually liked his character.

Shmi Skywalker was pretty cool actually. I liked her.

Dislikes.

The Jarring Character. You know the one.

Wooden acting by the kids.

Stupid cameos that feel forced.

3CPO should never have had that dumb origin.

Yipee!

Asian and primitive stereotyping in aliens was pretty terrible.

If only we could take out some of that wooden acting and stupid self-referencing crap, we'd have a serviceable film here.

Jedi were a bunch of dicks who didn't seem to know what they were doing. Only Liam Neeson knew what was up.