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Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
The Phantom menace follows the search for balance in the Sith force. The Jedis must take chances to to regain their glory
6 October 1962, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
19 August 1973, New York City, New York, USA
April 7, 1961 in Chicago, Illinois, USA
27 April 1964, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
25 May 1944, Hereford, England, UK
1 July 1955, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Culver City, California, USA
January 31, 1973 in Wimbledon, England, UK
1972, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, UK
24 August 1934, Birmingham, England, UK
12 August 1939, Ealing, London, England, UK
February 16, 1962 in Taipei, Taiwan
9 October 1936, Mexborough, Yorkshire, England, UK
10 July 1964
21 December 1948, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
10 December 1962, San Francisco, California, USA
21 February 1946, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK
3 October 1959, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
1956, England, UK
December 15, 2015
Everything in Phantom Menace exists in a bright noisy vacuum.
November 16, 2015
Do kids really want to follow a plot about intergalactic trade embargoes?
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.
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
What if it had been good? What if it had been a movie?
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 17, 2015
The saga begins with this relentlessly erratic installment...
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
Character and personality take a back seat on this ride.
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
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
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?
