Then again, the score is probably the best thing about the The Phantom Menace. The sound design from Ben Burtt is second to none, and is one of the finest technical achievements in recent cinema history – making the race essentially score free was probably Lucas’s best decision in the film. The pod race still ranks as something truly special, and the 3D brings it to life in an even more vivid way. And its two set pieces are bang on the money. I’ve only seen it better rendered in Avatar. The 3D upgrading of it is quite brilliantly done, as you would expect, and only adds to the action. For all my carping about the cartoon-like nature of it, for a film more than a decade old it looks bloody amazing. However, there is no denying that when Episode I gets it right, it gets it spectacularly right. McGregor still seems a bit off as Obi Wan, mainly due to the writing, one suspects, while Jar Jar is still at times offensively bad. The only change for the better is that the weird stoned Yoda puppet has been changed to the CGI one of Episodes II and III (the same change as in the Blu-ray saga) but even that’s not as good as the original puppet from 30 years ago.
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