Review of Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) by Brandon C — 23 Dec 2015

Even the positive things about this film (of which there are few) still don't quite work. Darth Maul is a decent new addition to the series but is bizarrely underused and then promptly killed off. The pod race section is quite fun and exciting but Lucas can't help but populate all the other racers with nauseating CGI wacky races characters.

The bad things, you could go on all day, the terrible casting, the green screening of everything so people spend the entire film gazing into middle space, the dire plot about taxation and trade embargoes, the technology being better than in the later films, the shoe-horning in of much loved characters even if it makes no logical or plot sense, Lucas just filling the screen from corner to corner with CGI shite.

..literally just everywhere, like one of his droids threw up over the film and of course Jar Jar...bleedin Binks.