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Ratings:

	6.5/10 Votes: 736,547
	52%
	51/100
	6.5 Votes: 10853 Popularity: 26.274

Reviews:

***Solid return of the franchise after 16 years, highlighted by Liam Neeson***

A Jedi Knight & his apprentice (Liam Neeson and Ewan McGregor) escape a blockade with their new Gungan friend, Jar Jar Binks, and the handmaiden of Queen Amidala (Natalie Portman). Upon damaging their vessel, they find sanctuary on a planet where they meet a slave boy, a gifted pilot and engineer, who may be the prophesied “Chosen One.” Meanwhile, the supposedly extinct Sith resurface, including Darth Maul (Ray Park).

“Star Wars: Episode 1 – The Phantom Menace” (1999) is the fourth Star Wars film and the first of the prequel trilogy, followed by “Attack of the Clones” (2002) and “Return of the Sith” (2005). It marked writer/director George Lucas’ return to the popular franchise after 16 years, the previous film being “Return of the Jedi” (1983).

Star Wars is fantasy packaged as science-fiction or “space fantasy” whereas Star Trek is dramatic science-fiction in a space-travel context. I’ve always preferred the latter because it’s more adult-oriented, but I don’t mind a Star Wars flick now and then and “The Phantom Menace” is entertaining enough.

There’s a new cast of characters along with a young version of Obi-Wan Kenobi and R2D2, C-3PO, Yoda and Jabba. Liam Neeson stands tall as the no-nonsense Qui-Gon Jinn, McGregor is solid and Portman is attractive at the young age of 17. Also notable is Hugh Quarshie as Captain Panaka.

I didn’t mind the loathed Jar Jar Binks and I enjoyed the wondrous underwater sequence and the thrilling podrace in the first half (even though the mother allowing her son to enter the life-and-death contest is unlikely, not to mention the Jedi knights condoning it). Unfortunately the climax comes down to the clichéd “big battle sequence” and it’s predictable who’s gonna die in the corresponding duel. Yawn. Still, “The Phantom Menace” is all-around entertaining if you have a taste for Star Wars.

The film runs 2 hours, 16 minutes.

GRADE: B-/B

Frankly, this film is terrible, and the producers were obviously banking on the original Star Wars coming back all excited, and didn’t bother come up with a good story.

What’s wrong? Well —

(1) The virtuous Obiwan Kenobi talks an admiring young boy to participate in a dangerous race so that he can bet on the boy and win the money he needs for his mission. Sounds like the later movie HUNGER GAMES, except that in HUNGER GAMES we’re expected to despise people who bet on children’s lives.

(2) The young boy befriends a teenage girl who is presumably 6 or 7 years older. Come the next movie, they’re suddenly the same age so that they can have a love affair. Are they of different species that age at different rates, or did the writers simply not plan ahead?

(3) The boy’s mother tells Obiwan that she gave birth to the boy without having sex. Having introduced this bizarre Christological symbolism, the writers promptly forget it.

(4) And there’s a character named JarJar, who apparently has no function in the movie except to irritate a lot of the critics.

Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (Short Movie Review)
Positives:
* Planets design
* Some of the action scenes
* Darth Maul
* Musical score

Negatives:
* Story
* Pacing
* Characters
* Acting
* Writing
* Dull cinematography

Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (Short Movie Review)
Positives:
* Planets design
* Some of the action scenes
* Darth Maul
* Musical score

Negatives:
* Story
* Pacing
* Characters
* Acting
* Writing
* Dull cinematography

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 2 hr 16 min (136 min)
Budget 115000000
Revenue 924317558
Status Released
Rated PG
Genre Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Director George Lucas
Writer George Lucas
Actors Liam Neeson, Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Jake Lloyd
Country USA
Awards Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 26 wins & 66 nominations.
Production Company Lucasfilm Ltd.
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital EX, SDDS (8 channels), DTS-ES, Dolby Atmos
Aspect Ratio 2.39 : 1
Camera Arriflex 435 ES, Hawk C-Series Lenses, Arriflex 535B, Hawk C-Series Lenses, Sony HDC-750
Laboratory DeLuxe, Hollywood (CA), USA (prints), Rank Film Laboratories, Denham, UK, Monaco Film Laboratories, San Francisco (CA), USA (dailies)
Film Length 3,794 m
Negative Format 35 mm (also horizontal) (Eastman EXR 50D 5245, Kodak Vision 320T 5277), HDCAM
Cinematographic Process Dolby Vision, HDCAM (some scenes), Hawk Scope (anamorphic), Powerscope (anamorphic) (underwater scenes), VistaVision (some scenes)
Printed Film Format 35 mm (Kodak Vision 2383, Vision Premier 2393), D-Cinema (Texas Instruments DLP 1280 x 1024, 1.9: 1 anamorphic)