The Phantom Menace (1999)
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				movie info		5: excellent
				liam neeson		4: very good
				ewan mcgregor		3: average
				natalie portman		2: fair
				jake lloyd		1: poor
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				average rating at martytown: 2.00

I've been a big fan of the Star Wars series, especially The Empire Strikes Back. But it seems to me that they've become more showpieces for the special effects and weird creatures that George Lucas can dream up, and less about the human characters that I found so compelling in Empire (especially between Carrie Fisher's Leia and Harrison Ford's Han Solo). Although The Phantom Menace has some entertaining moments, every character without fail is less fully developed than Luke, Leia, Han and Darth. It doesn't quite add up to a film worth seeing unless you love special effects and spage age science fiction.
— marty