Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace

I actually think that I like Episode Poo better than this one, now that I've seen the two in close proximity to each other. In Phantom Menace we have to put up with what is now apparent as the most condescending tone of voice that I've experienced in film in recent memory. This all comes from Lucas' idea that Star Wars has always been a kind of Saturday morning cartoon. The result is fart jokes, characters with dorky accents, and an ultra-sterilized world. We hear a number of references to the people of Naboo "suffering" and casualties numbering "in the thousands," but we never actually see any suffering. Actually, we never see the people of Naboo. The invasion of the Trade Federation is, apparently, unresisted until the fighting that we see at the end. The leaders of the Trade Federation are soft, their businessmen and politicians, and their army is made of robots that do exactly what they are commanded to do, nothing more or less. Summary executions and fear mongering are not exactly their forte. I don't need to see people being shot in the streets, but it's hard to believe that the Trade Bosses are doing little more than stopping by for a visit when all you see of the place is well-swept streets and freshly watered plants. One of the things that has always confused me about the Trade Federation motives is that Naboo doesn't seem to have any exploitable industry. Yes, it does have plenty of rescources: water, lumber, and no doubt other precious minerals and such, but that doesn't seem to be their industry. Their primary export, from all evidence derived from the two movies, is politicains. The trade federation never says why they're there.
Beyond that are everything that everyone else has said before: I can't beleive ultimate evil just said "yipee."
Actually, there is one other thing: Anakin and his mom are the least opressed slaves ever.

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