{"id":129173,"date":"2015-12-18T12:12:29","date_gmt":"2015-12-18T19:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/18\/movie-review-the-phantom-menance-1999.html"},"modified":"2015-12-25T16:32:44","modified_gmt":"2015-12-25T23:32:44","slug":"movie-review-the-phantom-menance-1999","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/18\/movie-review-the-phantom-menance-1999.html","title":{"rendered":"Movie Review: &quot;The Phantom Menance&quot; (1999)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, we&#39;re trying to watch the Prequels, now, too &#8212; simply because <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a class=\"proflink\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/103453067516847485667\" oid=\"103453067516847485667\">Kay Hill<\/a><\/span> never saw them except the first (and parts of the second via the Lego game adaptation).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/star-wars-episode-i-the-phantom-menace\/\">http:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/star-wars-episode-i-the-phantom-menace\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Summary: Some beautiful set pieces, but a story crippled by clashing tones of seriousness and slapstick, as well as some dumb plotting. 2.5\/5 stars (and they don&#39;t get any better from here).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style='text-align:center'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101083456815352083930\/albums\/6229703810055004401\/6229703806734142066'><img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-W6bQ3nQmmPk\/VnRamxhJinI\/AAAAAAADe8M\/cHr8vd8EiII\/EPI_TPM_poster%255B1%255D.png?imgmax=660' style='max-width:650px;' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style='text-align:center'>\n<a href='' style='width:50px;height:50px;display:inline-block;background-size:cover;background-image:url();'><\/a>\u00a0\n<\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/7scFcYRBaZy'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, we&#39;re trying to watch the Prequels, now, too &#8212; simply because +Kay Hill never saw them except the first (and parts of the second via the Lego game adaptation). http:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/star-wars-episode-i-the-phantom-menace\/ Summary: Some beautiful set pieces, but a story crippled by clashing tones of seriousness and slapstick, as well as some dumb plotting. 2.5\/5 stars &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/18\/movie-review-the-phantom-menance-1999.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Movie Review: &quot;The Phantom Menance&quot; (1999)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":129174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,372],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-star-wars-media-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/EPI_TPM_poster5B15D.pngimgmax=660.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":598,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/09\/13\/the_phantom_ans.html","url_meta":{"origin":129173,"position":0},"title":"The Phantom Answers","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 13-Sep-01 1:41pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The Phantom Answers Everything you wanted to know (and probably quite a bit you did not) about the upcoming Star Wars DVD. 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