The Phantom Menace Review
- Video
- 2009
- 1h 9m
IMDb RATING
9.4/10
2.4K
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A serial killer decides to dissect the critically panned Star Wars prequels to determine their TRUE flaws.A serial killer decides to dissect the critically panned Star Wars prequels to determine their TRUE flaws.A serial killer decides to dissect the critically panned Star Wars prequels to determine their TRUE flaws.
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Pernilla August
- Shmi Skywalker
- (archive footage)
Ahmed Best
- Jar Jar Binks
- (archive footage)
George Lucas
- Self
- (archive footage)
Rick McCallum
- Self
- (archive footage)
Hugh Quarshie
- Captain Panaka
- (archive footage)
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- TriviaUpon its online premiere in December 2009, the review was widely linked to by many people across the internet, including celebrities such as actor/writer Simon Pegg and writer/producer Damon Lindelof; the latter of whom wrote in a Twitter message about the Plinkett review, noting "Your life is about to change. This is astounding film making."
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Plinkett: Star Wars: The Phantom Menace was the most disappointing thing since my son. I mean, how much more could you possibly fuck up the entire backstory to Star Wars? And while my son eventually hanged himself in the bathroom of the gas station, the unfortunate reality of the Star Wars prequels is that they'll be around. Forever. They will never go away. It can never be undone.
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Funniest review I've ever seen and worth the view
How do I describe this piece of brilliant lunacy. I remember seeing Star Wars I with all the hoopla on the evening it opened. Excitement was in the air, hundreds of people dressed up like characters of the movie and afterwards, most of the audience left with.... a WTF look on their faces. This film skewers The Phantom Menace in hilarious fashion. What's scary is how accurate most of the points are and how difficult it must have been to make a movie this illogical, sloppy and lazy.
This is like MSTK3000 but using an analytical approach to the entire movie, including some hilarious sideshow bits from time to time. Clearly a great deal of time was spent preparing this lampooning of a very poor movie. While you might think it would get boring quickly... it doesn't. The jokes mostly hit and there is a remarkable amount of hilariously bad material in this film to easily fit into 100 minutes but this film is only about 70 something in total.
It's no fluke the other reviewers gave this film such a high grade. There is no commercial motive. It's just damn hilarious.
This is like MSTK3000 but using an analytical approach to the entire movie, including some hilarious sideshow bits from time to time. Clearly a great deal of time was spent preparing this lampooning of a very poor movie. While you might think it would get boring quickly... it doesn't. The jokes mostly hit and there is a remarkable amount of hilariously bad material in this film to easily fit into 100 minutes but this film is only about 70 something in total.
It's no fluke the other reviewers gave this film such a high grade. There is no commercial motive. It's just damn hilarious.
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- May 16, 2018
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- 4:3
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