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Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
There is a re-emergence of the dormant Sith as they reclaim their old glory. The duo Jedi will have to escape the blockade to make new allies, A balance must be born into the force again.
12 July 1948, Jamesville, New York, USA
25 May 1944, Hereford, England, UK
22 April 1965, Paris, France
26 April 1953, Mumbles Head, South Wales, UK
January 31, 1973 in Wimbledon, England, UK
3 October 1959, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
November 16, 2015
Do kids really want to follow a plot about intergalactic trade embargoes?
February 10, 2012
"Star Wars: Episode 1 -- The Phantom Menace" got dismissive reviews in 1999, and it deserves the same today. But you probably know that.
November 16, 2015
Mr. Lucas is not without a certain technocratic sagacity, but I don't think he's communicating even with the young as astutely as he once did.
December 11, 2015
'The Phantom Menace' is definitely the major reason most fans, even prequel apologists like myself, don't watch the Star Wars saga in chronological order.
December 15, 2015
Everything in Phantom Menace exists in a bright noisy vacuum.
December 17, 2015
The saga begins with this relentlessly erratic installment...
November 16, 2015
What I can't comprehend is why the political details had to be so tedious and abstract. Will the kids of our nation and the world truly be titillated by trade wars and the spectacle of a do-nothing Senate?
December 14, 2015
What if it had been good? What if it had been a movie?
November 16, 2015
Look, I wanted to love The Phantom Menace, too. I was an adolescent boy and would enjoy being one again for a couple of hours. But the movie has a way of deflating all but the most delusional of hopes.
November 16, 2015
Character and personality take a back seat on this ride.
December 14, 2015
The movie is fun, for the most part, and several scenes are as good or better than anything Lucas created in the original films. The human characters, however, are not nearly as interesting as those in the earlier episodes.
June 05, 2016
It is not remotely devoid of value. It's just that none of this value comes from plot, character, or capacity to provide entertainment.