You’ll recall that Alec Guinness played Obi-Wan the first time, and McGregor does a deft job of matching up with him vocally. To her rescue come two Jedi knights: old pro Qui-Gon Jinn (Liam Neeson) and his apprentice, Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor). The Trade Federation sends battleships to her planet, Naboo, to persuade her to sign a dodgy treaty. Not Princess Leia this time it’s Queen Amidala (Natalie Portman). And reasonable facsimiles thereof are on sale at your local Force emporium.Įpisode I is set thirty years earlier than the original saga, Episode IV: A New Hope, but some things never change. There’s a less fancy explanation for why Phantom Menace will inspire fetishistic worship: It’s loaded with cool stuff. ![]() With this epic and the trilogy that preceded it, George Lucas has built a pop-culture monument that packs all of history – war, religion, myth, art, science and those old reliables, good and evil – into a mystical grab bag that plays like a kiddie cartoon. But it’s useless to criticize the visual astonishment that is Star Wars – Episode I: The Phantom Menace. ![]() ![]() The actors are wallpaper, the jokes are juvenile, there’s no romance, and the dialogue lands with the thud of a computer-instruction manual.
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