Everyone talks about how the deleted scenes are so wonderful, the problem, they remain deleted. Usually there's a cut and paste option, as with the new Die Hard releases. You won't find that here. Perhaps in the next release it will be. As for the story line.... Lucas is brilliant. Sure it was a little kiddish, but they will age with the film just like the rest of us did with the origional trilogy, think about it. A new hope looked like a one time shot, so he couldn't take the kid route. It's a trilogy, this was only Part I. My guess is that Part III will be pretty rockin, Part II will have to be better or Part III will never be made. The next films greatness will remain to be seen, but I can see where Lucas is headed.

Congratulations Mr Lucas you have succeded in making the greatest toy commercial in history.The Annikan Skywalker doll would have given a more life-like performance,and jar-jar binks is just plain annoying.The first 2 movies were good adveture stories,the next 2 are just to sell toys.All in all(given all the hype)the biggest disappiontment in the history of film.

this is just another ploy by george lucas to make money off of a failed movie, don't get me wrong i love star wars, but i'm not the biggest fan of the new ones, ESPICALLY episode 1, the hype was so big for this movie and i believe that lucas defiantly failed to deliever. Now he's trying re-release this movie, what's new about it, widescreen format and a few new documentaries with the same footage used in other documentaries about the movie that you could probably see on cable tv.In my opinion just another attempt to make money, is this really worth another $20 dollars to you?

One of the worst movies I have ever seen is "Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace." Forget the story of politics, nobody cares about that. Nobody even cares about it in real life. Jedi Knights train a little boy named Anakin Skywalker (played by an annoying child). He build pod racers and even races himself. How wonderful. Darth Maul (not scary) wants to eliminate the child for he is the chosen one. What a bunch of bull. Jar Jar Binks is the absolute worst thing ever created. Natalie Portman needs to stick to making movies like "The Professional" which is a way better movie than this. This movie is meaningless and has no heart as in the other three. Shame on anybody who likes this.

I understand that folktales reach out to us because they are familar to us, yet I can't help but wish that Lucas would do something new and different. I have no idea why the Jar Jar character is here, no idea why they felt the need to explain the "force" in bad psuedo-science terms, and little respect for something that seems more geered toward making money off of toys than entertaining an audience. I was very very disappionted.

Why aren't ANY of the Star Wars Movies available on DVD (the most popular technology today! ) ? The answer is: George Lucas is GREEDY! He knows that many 'suckers' will buy the VHS versions of his movies, then he will add special features for DVD versions, which will also be picked up by the same suckers! He gets twice the amount of money for one film, which didn't knock my socks off anyway! Leave the video alone, and wait for the DVD! If you need to see thi 'movie', rent it 1st!