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- Audio commentary by George Lucas (Writer/Director), Rick McCallum (Producer), Ben Burtt (Co-Editor and Sound Designer), Scott Squires & John Knoll & Dennis Muren (Visual Effects Supervisors), Rob Coleman (Animation Supervisor)
- 7 Never-Before-Seen Deleted Scenes with full visual effects completed solely for this DVD release
- 'The Beginning' - Documentary offering unprecedented access inside Lucasfilm and ILM during the making of the film (1 hour)
- Multi-angle storyboard to animatic to finished film feature
- 5 'Behind-The-Scenes' Featurettes - Storyline, Design, Costumes, Visual Effects, Fight Scenes
- Music Video - 'Duel Of The Fates' (John Williams)
- 'Lynne's Diaries' - the 12 part web documentaries
- 3 Image Galleries - Theatrical Posters, Print Campaign, Never-Before-Seen Production Photos
- Original Theatrical Teaser and Launch Trailers
- 7 TV Spots - including the legendary 'Tone Poems'
Every generation has a legend. Every journey has a first step. Every saga has a beginning.
The opening chapter in the fabled Star Wars saga: two Jedi knights, Qui-Gon Jinn (Liam Neeson) and his apprentice Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor), must rescue the young Queen Amidala (Natalie Portman) and help her save her home planet, Naboo, which is under blockade by the ruthless trade federation. When the federation attacks, the Jedi spirit the queen away to relative safety on the desert planet of Tattooine. It is there that Qui-Gon discovers a boy, enslaved by evil gambler Watto, who has the potential to become the most powerful of the Jedi. His name: Anakin Skywalker...
Average rating (23 reviews)
A lightsabre where it hurts!
chipper81 | 27/09/2009 | See all chipper81's reviews (1) »
Well where do you start with the Star Wars prequels..yes they could never live up to expectations but did they have to be so bad! Episode I especially is basically just a glorified toy comercial, it just looks so different from the original films. Its probably easier to list the few good points of this movie first yeah Darth Maul is a good character and the lightsabre fight is pretty good.. er think thats it for the highlights. The rest of the film is just dire! Jar Jar, Jake Loyd (although his acting is probably better that Hayden Christians in the next two films), Brian Blessed as a talking frog, Midi Clorians(??), need i go on? The original trilogy (along with the Rocky films)where basically my life growing up (yes i was a bit sad) but George Lucas couldn't have got it more wrong when he made these prequels! To the Sarlacc with you George Lucas!
Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace
Kevin1075 | 23/09/2009 | See all Kevin1075's reviews (257) »
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Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999) - ***
People describe this as the biggest let down in cinema history. It's flaws are numerous (Jake Lloyd, Jar-Jar, utter lack of pace and Ewan McGregor's seeming aversion to acting in this movie) but it has it's high points, too. The stodginess of the script created by insistence on explaining every last thing that is happening around the characters means the pace is dragging. But placed in between these droughts of Liam Neeson looking hurt, we have nuggets of Star Wars fan gold. The podrace. The Gungan battle. The three-way lightsabre fight. All of these manage to grant Episode I enough appeal to outweigh the dullness of having every last detail of the Star Wars universe elaborated on. Simply put, it still manages to have a bit of fun.
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Liam Neeson, Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Jake Lloyd, Ian McDiarmid, Pernilla August, Oliver Ford Davies, Samuel L. Jackson, Hugh Quarshie, Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker, Ray Park, Terence Stamp, Brian Blessed, Celia Imrie & Ralph Brown | |
PG | |
1999 | |
2.35:1 Anamorphic Widescreen | |
English - Dolby Digital (5.1) Surround EX ; THX Mastered | |
English ; English for the hearing impaired ; Finnish ; Norwegian ; Swedish | |
2 hours and 7 minutes (approx) | |
Region 2 - Will only play on European Region 2 or multi-region DVD players. |
