Review of Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) by Jc E — 04 May 2016

On this special day of Ascension, a public holiday in Norway celebrating Jesus Christ´s ascension to heaven, I opened by Star Wars Blu Ray collection and embarked on my 7 part interstellar journey. Optimum in enjoying this legendary space film franchise is a little research before watching the film.

This helps in staying with the plot and not to get lost with the many strange looking characters. Thanks to an excellent synopsis by wikipedia, I shut myself up in my private viewing room. With a 4k TV, high definition blu-ray discs, and a DTH sound system, it was a fantastic experience.

Full marks to Liam Neeson and Ewen McGregor as highly skilled Jedi Knights. To make it realistic, George Lucas gave us Ja Ja Binks and his tribe of green 60s hippies amphibians. Many find them irritating but so it is so in our real world, we face irritating oddballs constantly in our daily lives.

Before watching SW2 Attack of the Clones, I´m reading George Lucas screenplays first, Seeing Jabba the Hutt giant toad and his tentacle face companion brought Deja Vu for me.