Phantom is very rewarding for devoted fans, chock full of delightful references and allusions and parallels to the first trilogy that pay off handsomely the multiple viewings of the originals we’ve enjoyed over the years. The grownup, verbal wittiness of the previous films is sorely missed.Īnd yet… this is Star Wars, and I love exploring this universe.
With his grinning, friendly face and blundering antics, Jar Jar is Phantom‘s juvenile comic relief (correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think there was a single fart joke in all of the original trilogy), which is a bit odd when one considers that the most die-hard of Lucas’s fans, the ones who’ve been with him since the beginning, are now well beyond the age to appreciate jokes about bodily functions. Jar Jar is symptomatic of another weakness: the kiddie focus of the film. The computer-generated character Jar Jar Binks (voiced by Ahmed Best), while a technical marvel, is probably the most irritating character ever to appear on film - like a Caribbean Elmo or, as my brother and fellow devotee suggested, a Rastafarian Roger Rabbit, the clumsy, floppy-eared Jar Jar speaks with a nearly incomprehensible accent, as do the rest of his species, the Gungan. As a film, it annoys as much as thrills and leaves much to be desired, especially in comparison with Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back, the best of the originals. I can understand why mainstream movie critics have, on the whole, been less than kind to The Phantom Menace. So with that kind of anticipation, could Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace do anything other than disappoint?
Ben Kenobi’s fond reminiscences of Luke’s father. So I’ve been waiting a little more than half my life for Lucas to go back and fill in all the little details that so tantalized us in the original trilogy: The Clone Wars. It’s been sixteen years since Return of the Jedi this year I will be thirty years old.
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