Review of Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) by Stanley C — 22 Jun 2016

Burdened with too many characters, none of which are developed well enough for the audience to thoroughly know much like with the original trio Luke, Leia and Han, as well as lazy storytelling relying on special effects, unique-looking aliens, robots and planets that all also aren't developed well enough due to George Lucas' decision to rush everything rather than taking things slow and steady as back in NEW HOPE and EMPIRE STRIKES BACK, in addition to the very annoying and yap-yapping Jar Jar Binks, the Phantom Menace may be the worst prequel/sequel/remake ever made to any movie series (unfortunately having to be the once superior Star Wars) and one of the worst things any filmmaker has done to his own movie series.