Star Wars - Episode I: The Phantom Menace Review

Review by hbenthow — August 18, 2011 @ 10:24 pm

*This rating was given before reviews were required*

Review by Katharsys — April 8, 2012 @ 8:29 am

I watched this series on YouTube, and all I can say is… BRILLIANT! (BTW, the comments made by idiots on the YouTube site attacking RLM for his videos are almost as funny as the videos themselves… they hate it either because they loved the prequels, or they’re too stupid to realize this is a tongue-in-cheek deal.) I don’t know what I liked more about his reviews, that the character doing the review is hysterical, or that every single thing he says is pretty much true!

One major request, though; any way of re-upping TPM? I got the Episode II review on DVD (awesome job, boon23!) but Episode I is offline…

Can’t wait for Episode III, if boon23 is up for that one too! A million thanks to boon and RedLetter for these!!!

Review by mullholland665 — July 8, 2010 @ 1:01 pm

I love Scott Macauly’s byte on this: “It’s like the culmination of every hate-spewed conversation you’ve ever had about the prequels and George himself–but hilarious.”

Redletter’s insight and comedy are very well combined. His drunken, droll voice performance is gold. Okay, the bits with the chicks imprisoned in his basement, etc are f*cked up alright, but they fit the low rent feel of the whole thing which I kinda like. For me his killer blow is the point he makes about the characters, ie. the sequence where he asks a few people to describe earlier Star Wars characters like Han Solo, and they respond with ease, and then he asks them to describe Qui-Gon Jinn and only gets puzzled expressions and furrowed brows. Bingo!

Review by buddythegoon — April 21, 2010 @ 10:42 pm

I loved about 90% of this. Great insight, great demonstration of film-making knowledge and how Lucas lost it. I also have no complaints about the video editing. The Jar Jar Binks of it all really is the extraneous bits – the basement, killing women, pizza rolls.
I know, it’s a character the guy created, big inside joke etc., but it’s just damn lame. Of course it’s offensive, but that’s not my problem. My problem is that it’s just not funny and doesn’t add any real depth to the film, kind of like . . . say . . .
JAR JAR.

I’m sure lots of people will disagree. I realize some may question my docking 4 entire stars just for a few scenes that annoyed me, but the reality is that they annoyed me that much. Had they been funny, 10 stars easy, but they weren’t, though it was painfully evident that the creator really thought they were. I’ll watch more from Red Letter Media because of the insight, but Fan Edit of the Month? Seriously people?

Review by Matt_Jensen — April 12, 2010 @ 4:25 pm

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