Star Wars: The Phantom Menace

Reviewed by: Cllrdr

May 10, 1999

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Just in from "Star Wars, Episode 1: The Menace of Star Wars Fans" And it was everything I'd been led to expect. And less.

It's a film that sends you out into the streets humming the digital electronics code.

The plot, as you might have read, is a steal from "Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay!" with Ewan McGregor in the Lon McAllister role and Natalie Portman as June Haver.

A long time ago, in a development deal far far away, young Bobo Fete is quickly growing to young Bobohood on his home planet, TatooYou. With the help and encouragement of his mother, Jenerator, he'll soon be a Freeper Knight. One day Queen CalGal from the Bill Gates Federation arrives seeking shelter from the evil Darth Cellar and his trusted aide Darth Jade. They get some help from rather pathetic looking digititally-created creature with floppy ears called Zsa Zsa, who acts like a stoned Franklin Pangborn, yet talks like Willie Best with a speech impediment. Thanks to the help of his Freeper Knight Masters: JJ. Biener, FreeToChoose, and BoomerJeff, young Bobo wins an intergalactic soapbox derby competition. But Darth Cellar and Darth Jade triumph nonetheless, reducing Bobo and his allies to a pile of ashes, and cutting the trilogy down to a single film.

The End.

 

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