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...though, The Phantom Menace is not about the performances or even really about the characters. It's about the whole scene, the blissful dream of the Star Wars experience. Lucas delivers on the visuals--he paints breathtaking vistas and wondrous creatures that prove he's got imagination to spare. It's a little too clean for my taste--part of the charm of the original series was that it made the long, long time ago seem just as grungily medieval as it was techno-cool--but it's still pretty darn impressive. Even while the film's big showpiece...
...that aside--even if it is a lot to put aside--The Phantom Menace is just what it seems: a good time and a chance to spy in on a world that's just as pretty as it is cheesy and dumb. Should you go see it? Well, yeah. That really isn't the question, though; it's whether you'll be satisfied with what you see. The answer is that you will, but only if you don't go in expecting to be magically transported back to your youth. Things have changed since then, and The Force can only...
...loyalty, honor, adherence to right and perseverance against wrong. After The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, the Star Wars phenomenon continued to grow, and it is about to receive a fresh jolt of life with the release of the first chapter of the Prequel Trilogy, The Phantom Menace...
...this sounds unbelievable, it is. Imagine a combination of Back to the Future, The Truman Show and Phantom of the Opera, set in Spain and you'll have some idea of the complex and quick moving Open Your Eyes (Abre Los Ojos). The movie opens with Cesar, a millionaire playboy played by Eduardo Noriega, finding relief from a seductress Nuria by meeting the beautiful girl next door type Sofia (played by Penelope Cruz). Cesar spends the night at Sofia's apartment in what seems to be the match made in heaven, but as he walks to his car the next...
...looks and his face is hideously disfigured. What was a straight-forward storyline before the accident now becomes hopelessly entangled, as Cesar's dreams, nightmares and fantasies are showed as if they were real. Unable to cope with his face, he tries wearing a mask and calls himself the "Phantom of the Opera...