of the 6 in the saga. I’m including all 6 though I’m sure that the votes are all going to be concentrated on the “prequels.”
Attack of the Clones had Amidala in a tight white jumpsuit. Revenge of the Sith had Kermit the Jedi. There is nothing redeeming about The Phantom Menace. I keep my DVD copy of it in the same locked box with Godfather III.
Yeah, if TPM doesn’t win this poll in a landslide there is something fishy going on.
On the other hand, having it situated nicely near the middle like that provides a handy place to go out for a leisurely late luncheon on the annual marathon day. 
Near the middle? They don’t show it first?
And Police Academies 2-7, Jaws 3 and 4, and Leonard Part 6. 
I didn’t go into #1 expecting a classic or a masterpiece. But I think TPM has to win by the mere fact that it so lowered my expectations for II and III, that anything above “not complete shit” was acceptable to me.
Exactly what Ender24 said.
Not so. “The Phantom Menace” didn’t have Hayden Christensen (aka “The Original Sparkling Vampire”).
Yeah, yeah, Jake Lloyd blah blah “yippeeeeeee” Jar Jar etc. I stand by my point.
What he said.
I actually didn’t dislike Phantom Menace. Sure, Jar Jar was annoying and entirely unnecessary, but I didn’t really mind the kid. I liked that they were back on Tatooine and the pod racing sequence was good. Darth Maul is the most interesting character in the entire prequel trilogy. And no Hayden Christensen.
I live in fear of the day they make the “ultra-mega-hyper-extra-special” edition of A New Hope where the Death Star actually gets its shot off before it is destroyed, only for it to hit (and destroy) a ship Jar Jar was piloting (remember, in ROTJ, the Death Star’s shots could be “stopped” by ships), and in the end, they treat him as a hero (or worse, it turns out that “a long time later”, beings from “far, far away” who trace themselves back to Han and Leia end up populating Earth…)
I fell asleep during Attack of the Clones, plus it has the most idiotic title so, I vote AoTC.
I’ll let my prior comments re: Hayden Christensen stand and say that I do not consider the lack of a damning element to be the same as the presence of a redeeming one.
It is positively obscene how proud I am of that offhand comment from 2003.
Last one.
I don’t even know the name… with what’s her name…
Wait – weren’t Yoda’s aerial somersaults against Dooku in Clones, not Sith?
Yoda somersaulted in both. In both cases, it was a net negative for the movie.
Nor did it have the 50’s sock-hop rollerskate diner, or the R2D2 Super Mario Brothers platforming level, or the “roll roll roll in zee hay” romance montage.
I vote “Clones” as the worst of the lot.
I do not consider an opportunity to laugh out loud an net negative. YMMV. 
There was waaaay more Jar Jar Binks per square inch in The Phantom Menace than in any of the other movies and, on that basis alone, it becomes the worst movie in the history of the universe. TPM is actually more watchable than not IMO if you just fast forward past any scene with Jar Jar in it. Plus both Qui-Gon Jinn and Darth Maul were pretty cool characters.
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