Well, I gave it a
5 grins /5
and a
4 jaw drops /4 (had to edit out the smilies as the image limiter thingy wouldn't let me post it)
above. And just 'cause someone was asking, I'll now post my review of TPM (as viewed in theaters, not as viewed in the enhanced DVD - which improved the movie in minor ways).
Technically:
/5
Coolness factor:
/5
TPM was made at a time when CGI wasn't QUITE good enough to pull off organic "people" convincingly, and as such Jar Jar, Boss Nass, Captain Tarpals, and the other Gungans suffered for it (though not much). The battle droids, however, looked fantastic.
Darth Maul was SERIOUSLY overhyped. He had the potential to be an AWESOME character (in fact, he IS an awesome character, read Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter...it's fantastic), but through mis- and under-use, he turned into a device for killing Qui-Gon and saberfodder for Obi-Wan. And a little niggle...after all that lightning-fast saber fighting against two people, he just stands there while Obi-Wan jumps over him, lands on the other side, activates his lightsaber, and slashes him through? I'm sorry - Lucas needed to come up with a better way to have him die. He knew something was up (watch his face), but still he just stood there.
Jar-Jar - VERY EXTREMELY HIGHLY UNBELIEVABLY HORRIBLY UTTERLY (insert some more adverbs here, please, I've run out) annoying. 'Nuff said.
Jake Lloyd - bad actor. I've seen worse, but I've seen WAY better too...they could've done far better.
Movie's Ending: poorly done - who sticks a ship's main reactor in the hanger? Why did it take Anakin (supposedly this hotshot pilot) 3 tries to find the trigger on the Naboo Starfighter? Doesn't everyone know that it's the joystick's trigger that fires weapons, not the button labeled "starter"?
Anyway, there were some high points to that movie (I loved Liam Niesson (sp?) as Qui-Gon). And there were some low points to that movie (see above several paragraphs). It certainly wasn't Lucas' best....but at least it wasn't Teddy Bears beating up the incredibly precise, ruthless, and feared stormtroopers.
--TurboNed
