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Star Wars Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999)

1999 136 min May 19, 1999

Storyline

Anakin Skywalker, a young slave strong with the Force, is discovered on Tatooine. Meanwhile, the evil Sith have returned, enacting their plot for revenge against the Jedi.

Release DateMay 19, 1999
Runtime136 minutes
Ratings
(46 votes, average: 3.35 out of 5)
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Reviews

80
Unnamed
It's up to snuff. It sustains the gee-whiz spirit of the series.
75
USA Today
Susan Wloszczyna
Let the killjoys squawk. Lucas has proved he has the Naboos to pull it off again. And again. And again.
63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Rick Groen
It does the job just fine. That job, as director George Lucas freely admits, is quite simply to thrill the beating hearts and the inquiring minds of 12-year-old boys.
63
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
Good enough, but only just. It's got the hardware, but neither the characters, the imagination, nor the resonance one had hoped for.
60
Maitland McDonagh
It's a kiddie movie rejiggered for childish grown-ups, of whom there are enough to make it a hit. How such childishness has become a virtual secular religion is hard to imagine.

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