Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
Only one boy can bring a balance in the force again. The Sith been irrelevant for too long.
19 August 1973, New York City, New York, USA
10 July 1964
1968, Bethnal Green, London, England, UK
August 22, 1950 in Heidelberg, Germany
19 January 1964, Brownwood, Texas, USA
12 July 1948, Jamesville, New York, USA
29 November 1979, UK
February 16, 1962 in Taipei, Taiwan
15 October 1969, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, UK
31 March 1971, Perth, Perthshire, Scotland, UK
10 July 1972, Liverpool, England, UK
15 July 1981
13 February 1958, Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
23 August 1974, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
21 February 1946, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK
14 May 1971, New York City, New York, USA
6 December 1970, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
22 February 1965, Troedyrhiw, near Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, UK
27 April 1964, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1 July 1955, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Culver City, California, USA
7 November 1950, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
December 15, 2015
Everything in Phantom Menace exists in a bright noisy vacuum.
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?
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.
December 14, 2015
What if it had been good? What if it had been a movie?
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.
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.
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.
December 17, 2015
The saga begins with this relentlessly erratic installment...
November 16, 2015
Do kids really want to follow a plot about intergalactic trade embargoes?
November 16, 2015
Character and personality take a back seat on this ride.
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.
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.
