Now rereleased in 3D, The Phantom Menace is the first in the well-known Star Wars science fiction fantasy adventure series. The main messages from this movie are about good triumphing over evil, listening to your inner self and trusting in yourself to be the best you can be.
This movie could also give you the chance to talk with your children about issues such as the following:. Skip to content Skip to navigation. Themes Slavery and children as slaves; separation from parents; war Violence Throughout the movie, there are scenes of war, fights between airships and other battle scenarios.
For example: Jedi Knights land on Federation ships and discover human-like droids. The droids attack the Jedi by filling the room with poisonous gas. During a podrace, Anakin is attacked by the Sand People, who take shots at him with a rifle. Two Jedi fight Darth Maul using lasers. One of the Jedi is stabbed through the stomach, and Darth Maul is cut in half and dies.
Content that may disturb children Under 5 In addition to the violent scenes mentioned above, this movie has some scenes that could scare or disturb children under five years. I remember convincing myself the critics' reviews I'd read couldn't possibly be right — it was a Star Wars film, after all. So it seemed that much worse, because it had disappointment heaped on top of the movie's problems. If they're old enough to understand what's going on, yes.
It's a special thing to see a Star Wars film on the big screen, and if you have kids under 12 or so, even if you took them to see Episode III in theaters in they likely won't remember it. Yes, it's worth going just to see it on an actual movie screen, even if the movie is just not very good.
Plus, kids are bound to like the movie a lot more than adults will. Jar Jar in particular seems to be much easier to take if you find elementary school humor funny, which I suppose shouldn't be surprising. And I'm sure it's easier to identify with Anakin if you're closer to his age, despite Jake Lloyd's uneven at best acting. I can say that my son definitely enjoyed seeing it — although he had never actually seen all of the movie before, so your kids' experience might be different. You can tell them that, according to Matthew Wood of Skywalker Sound, the sound the Geonosians make is "the sound of two fruit bats fighting over a banana mixed with a penguin mating call.
I think a sequence like the pod race would be one of my favorites as far as achievements, I guess, because it was just so many different engines and so many different cars, or so many different pods. Goofs Some naturalists have stated that Watto's wings weren't big enough to lift his body in flight. George Lucas explains that Watto's digestive system filled his rotund belly with helium, making Watto a blimp, not a bird.
Crazy credits Jabba The Hutt - Himself. Alternate versions The Blu-ray version replaces the Yoda puppet with a computer generated Yoda. User reviews 3. Top review. Quite good; not perfect, but good. With all the voices and opinions and critical ravings about The Phantom Menace, I am sure that one more voice weighing in ain't gonna make that much of a ripple.
But I am a committed fan in the sense of being devoted, not insane , and I feel the need at least to declare publicly my admiration for Lucas' latest work, and also a few of my concerns. Phantom Menace reminds me of something someone said of Citizen Kane: A hollow masterpiece.
PM is technically brilliant, yet it is so technically brilliant that it lacks a certain "human" warmth. In an interview in Premiere Magazine, Liam Neeson gave a telling anecdote that illustrates my point. First, he noted that Lucas was reticent to give the actors any motivation for lines, expressions, or anything. In other words, Lucas simply expected the actors to say lines devoid of emotional content, as if the post-production could somehow invest emotional motivation.
Neeson revealed that it took him a long time to convince Lucas to allow Qui-Gon to place a hand on Shmi's shoulder after he convinces her to allow him to take Anakin away to Coruscant. That hand on the shoulder was probably the BEST moment in that film, a sign of human connection in a swirling clash of galactic politics gone awry. Traces of post-production fiddling is evidenced most forcefully with Jake Lloyd's Anakin.
Watch carefully his scenes at the dinner table, sitting with Qui-Gon at night, and saying goodbye to his mother. Those scenes were clearly doctored in post-production; I believe Lucas took different takes of Lloyd saying lines and splicing those with Pernilla August's.
Pay special attention to Anakin after Shmi says, "He can help you, he was meant to help you. The first time I noticed it it was the fourth time I've seen the film I was taken aback. It was so blatant I began to wonder what other bits were modified that way. On the plus side: Lucas can weave a wonderfully rich narrative tapestry. I love that all this begins with a trade dispute. A trade dispute! Complete with procedural wranglings in a galactic senate rife with corruption and bureaucracy watch for the cameo appearance of Spielberg's ETs and a sinister Darth Sidious pulling the political strings.
It's the perfect smokescreen to disguise the rise of an evil empire. Every step of the plot has the look of careful craftsmanship; every twist and turn of the plot had relevance.
The costumes are outstanding, especially Queen Amidala's Asian-influenced wardrobe. John Williams has certainly outdone himself with the soundtrack, particularly "Duel of the Fates," which introduces choral voices into the Star Wars musical repertoire, ominous voices that sometimes hiss and sometimes howl the forboding Sanskrit text.
The production design and cinematography both real and CGI create vistas of unparalleled beauty and richness: from the Italianate arches and domes on Naboo, to the art nouveau-inspired underwater air-globes of the Gungans, to the dramatic cityscapes of Coruscant. I can see Academy Awards next year for all these achievements.
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