Darth Vader Rules Part III

All the news that gives you fits. All right I finally remembered the name of SWI--The Phantom Menace. You would think that a title that held this much promise would deliver--but you'd be wrong. There was no evil theme music to let you know that you should be scared, very scared. Though as discussed already Darth Maul's double light saber was freakin awesome--this darth did not have the Dark Lord Darkness of Vader. True, he did knock off Obi Wan's mentor, Liam Neeson ( I can't quite get the spelling of his screen name right). Liam was dynamic and Ewan MacGregor out Obi Wans Sir Alec Guinness, but the film had no depth of terror. The enemies were too cartoonish--they did not embody the evil of his royal Vaderness.

Princess Amidala was one tough lady. You can see where her daughter gets it, but there was no repartee between battlers. There was no Hans Solo character. Plee=sa let me no mention JAR JAR. He was like the Fearless Fosdick character in the old Dick Tracy comics. Despite the cloud that was always over his head, his mishaps turned out to be cosmically linked up to "the force" so that the outcome was usually positive. This proves the old apothegm, "Ignorance is Bliss."

Young Anikin was very precocious but not obnoxious and whiney He was certainly less petulant than the whiney Anikin in SWII "The Attack of the Clones." We'll get into that in more detail in DVR IV coming soon to a blog near you.