My Favorites from Rifftrax - Star Wars Episode I - The Phantom Menace

[JustPhilNY]

After seeing the "Kids Featurette Trailer", this has cleansed my mind!

[faithie70]

I wouldnt be surprised if they made prequels to this

[OmarAlQaseer]

Watching this movie was painful, and I loved Star Wars before this came out. I'd rather watch the shittiest episodes of Star Trek: Voyager than this movie without Mike Nelson and Kevin Murphy riffing on it.

[Kefka44]

@OmarAlQaseer Enterprise has more shit per episode than Voyager. (though Voyager is still fucking stupid).

[OmarAlQaseer]

@Kefka44 : I didn't even bother with Enterprise.

[Kefka44]

@OmarAlQaseer Good move.

[MrBuch169169]

And now, I'm on my way to see this movie in 3D.

What the hell is wrong with me...

[Guerillaradio13]

lmao this films soooooooo shit

[ForceMaximus84]

Well, I'll still take this over Batman & Robin anytime, at least.

[DashCat9]

Flatly. Lifelessly. Killing scene after dull, stupefying scene.

[MichaelmyersTX]

Look, Go to Hell! XD

[kinzeUK]

BAHAHAHAHAHA quality

[LiberalIntervention]

8:01  LOL!

[YettiYogiBear]

The double light saber sucked. It sucked as equally as the concept of Christopher Lee fighting two jedi while holding 2 lightsabers in each of his hands. Ooooh!

[altdoom615]

George Lucas went batshit insane after Return of the Jedi

[CallsignGooser]

LOL "It's as if Roger Rabbit was re-designed by Satan."

[WarlordRising]

Phantom Menace is the worst. Jake Lloyd's acting. Jar Jar. Pointless exposition. Completely boring for the first hour and a half. Who the fuck cares who won a pod race? I mean, what was the point? Oh, Anakin has driving skills. That's important exposition for ruling an ENTIRE EMPIRE.

[RidiculousFX]

We get you some hot and a sowa soup while you wait for noodle!

[EverYours614]

LOL these are hilarious, but i still love the star wars series ;) always will :)

[TheInnerSanctuary]

"Shut up."

[Madcap1690]

No way is Phantom Manass worse than Attack of the Clones.

[slowmonkey156]

"Furthermore, I -- oh I'm being wiped."

[JPerainoNET]

These guys are very funny but id rather they make fun of really bad movies, not movies that actually have fans and star wars is a fun and original series of films if you dont like it dont watch it

[Doorhenge]

@JPerainoNET

"id rather they make fun of really bad movies"

They are REALLY, REALLY BAD!!

[dime138]

"Manos": The Hands of Fate at least gives you a nostalgic feeling of the first time you had a camera or tried to edit something and it turned out like crap. The Star Wars prequels takes the nostalgia from the original trilogy...and rapes it while you sit there and watch it happen. I may be crossing the line here but I have to say it...*sigh*...

"Manos": The Hands of Fate >the Star Wars prequels.

[GusF]

I remember seeing on the news when the film first came out that one guy queued for 42 days to see the film. I hope that he enjoyed it!

[nervmeister]

@GusF

If not, he probably enjoyed typing and posting online a seriously angry rant against this film and the director he once called God......Then he probably hung himself, afterwards.

[sec0ndevolution]

"Wh-who's everyone?

Resistance to what?

Leaders of what?

What's the Federation?

What the HELL is going on!?"

[kurvos]

Oh for fucking fuck's sake - this is so fucking tiresome. I get it - Star Wars Episode 1 is not perfect. That doesn't make it a bad movie! The acting is bad? It's not worse than the acting of Episode 4 - wake up! The story has holes? For crying out loud.... you are complaining about things in the new trilogy the original trilogy had as well - shut the fuck up!

[textthing]

@kurvos

Yeah, actually, it is a bad movie. A very, very bad movie. And the "original trilogy" argument does not work, as they were pretty bad movies too, but least they had stories and characters.

[kurvos]

@textthing Pffh.... HA HA HAAA!!! Stories and characters? You can not be fucking serious. I am a big fan of Star Wars - and even I am more aware of the flaws than you. "Characters"... like the bland boy scout goodie-two-shoe Luke? Like the "too-good-for-school" edgy cocky aloner Han Solo? Like the boring annoying "what's-best-for-the-people" Leia? Like the snooty gay whining robot C-3PO? PM me if you dare - I can tear your defense apart with the right amount of words.

[textthing]

@kurvos

I am confused as to what your point is. I am not defending the Star Wars movies. I am not fans of them. I think they are rather poor movies. Is that clear enough?

[kurvos]

@textthing That wasn't a PM - so I did not read it. I won't read any other messages here by you either. PM me or forget it.

[textthing]

@kurvos

I'm not going to engage with you, Mr YouTube Tough Guy.

[JPerainoNET]

@kurvos I agree with you they were good movies

[ProteusQ71]

"Story? There is none!  But please enjoy these halfway decent computer graphics."

[scirius14]

at around 0:58, did anyone else get the really unsettling feeling that JarJar was about to eat Qui Gon's head?

[hisdell]

5:25 LOL

[JamesOhGoodie]

You know who I feel sorry for? The actress who played Anakin's mother. She's actually a respected Shakespearean actress in her native Sweden. She already has the disadvantage of acting in a foreign language, but speaking Lucas' flat lifeless dialogue on top of it? The woman did the best she could.

[BrennerBay]

Few people know this...but Mike Nelson is famous singer,

Willy Nelsons, unclaimed love child.

[Vrud2601]

@Wes964 "

My favorite riffs for the worst movie ever made (eat your heart out, Manos: Hands of Fate!). Full disclosure of bias: It is my opinion that the Star Wars prequels are the worst thing since AIDS, so I was strongly biased towards riffs which reinforce the idea that everyone involved with making this movie should be executed." You...........................­..............................­.... if only i had more than these characters to express myself, but i only had 16 left!

[devospud]

Annakin... shut up.

[lukegreen37]

When you make elcor Hamlet look like... Hamlet, you need to PUSH THE LIMIT OF HAMMINESS instead. 

[crazyguy43]

Dude, I hate the prequels as much as the next guy but... the worst thing since AIDS? That's a bit strong, dont'you think?

[BlueDemonofFire]

You think this movie was bad? Are you sure you watched the second one? It made this movie look brilliant.

[ChaosTheory0]

Hey Wes, have you seen RedLetterMedia's reviews of the Star Wars prequels? If you haven't, you should check them out. The dude rips them the fuck APART. They're hilarious, too.

[snipergirl21]

@ChaosTheory0 Hi, I want to publicly thank you for mentioning the RedLetterMedia reviews. I had never heard of them until I noticed your comment, and I'm watching them now. They're hilarious!!

[psychicllamakiller]

5:43

Hmmmm....her delivery reminds me of something.....

youtube "elcor hamlet", the link posting isn't working -_-

[valeforj]

Love the Patton reference.

[CaBr0n76]

I just like the lightsaber battles and the pod racing was good too

[RobidyBobidy1]

"And I pray that I never have to emote any more than I just did. I am exhausted."

Can't believe I liked this movie as a kid. I guess the special effects distracted me.

[GriffithAMPS]

@RobidyBobidy1 ah yes, then the special effects did their job brillantly

[TPrower]

"Yeah, I'll show you 'how wude' when I pull whatever genatalia you have right out of your mouth!"

[drakonloki]

dude you have no taste and not a true fan of the original if you think the piss-poor prequels are dissent movies they (especially the 1st one) dumb down Star Wars have crappy character development/interaction,crappy dialogue, the characters are transparent and most are one dimensional and or forgettable, and they are filled with plot holes and continuity errors.The prequels are only liked by people like you who are easily distracted by special effects.

[hornymaneee]

Geez dude, there's people who dislike the prequels, and then there's you (judging by the description) I am an open minded super liberal star wars prequel lover (as well as the original series lover)

[thereefshark]

Execute everyone? The concept art team and the technical crews clearly worked their asses off and did a good job. Its Lucas' scripts and direction of his actors that ruins it

[FHCTech]

@thereefshark Its also the fault of the crappy actors for allowing to be put into a film like this.

[psychicllamakiller]

@thereefshark And...well, there's not much you can say to defend Hayden christensen or jake lloyd, but most of the actors are good when they're being directed by...well, anyone other than lucas. it's not like they deserve to die. And palpatine is a lot of fun, at least XD

[psychicllamakiller]

@thereefshark Oh, and the music is at least good. :)

[anastu]

@thereefshark Specifically, Jake Lloyd and that abomination Jar Jar.

[blackhole73]

@thereefshark Lol right on, Redlettermedia and ConfusedMatthew do halorious reviews on these stupid movies

[AhKiLLeeZe]

Who, who's 'everyone?'... Resistance to what?... Leaders of what?!...What's the 'Federation?'...What the hell is going on?!?!

Hahahaha, perfection

[foxyfaefife]

"That was a great role for Paul Giamatti."

[jek21]

"Is it just me or was Gerald Ford president when this thing started?"

[shandelear]

"Look, go to hell!", was so fuckin funny.

[BionicTurtleWizard]

@gentlerat  I don't hate jar jar because of what everybody else says, he's just really, really annoying, and so I hate him because of that.

[dignankumar]

@AFAKEACCOUNT2010 And even though hating on Hitler is so cliche it doesn't make him any less loathsome and evil. And although I'm not proud of it I actually hate Jar Jar more than Hitler!

[Ekit357]

@dignankumar Atleast Hitler had some level of competence...

[dignankumar]

@Ekit357 Yeah, if Jar Jar ran the Third Reich there's no way the Luftwaffe would have gotten off the ground.....damn, now you've made me appreciate that crack-addled rabbit lizard!

[kissfan7]

I think people would not have hated this movie so much if it hadn't been a "Star Wars" film. I fully concede that the acting is lame, the dialogue is stupid, the racial insensitivity is off the charts, and that Jar Jar is one of the most hated characters in film history. Still, the music was amazing, the action scenes were pretty good, and the SFX were passable at worst.

But I'm not complaining. If this film had not inspired so much nerd rage, this RiffTrax would not have been half as funny.

[gentlerat]

Honestly, my opinion is that it's something of a cliche to hate on Jar Jar by this point.

[kaldemvor]

@gentlerat You're probably right, but I think that's one cliche that's very well-justified.

[AAPIVOTMASTERS]

rob schnider is the droid

[Crazy56U]

You missed the part where Kevin was reading from IMDB. It served as a Take That against Gramercy Pictures.

[MikeRoePhonicsMusic]

I genuinely sat through this in the theater asking myself What? The? Fuck? is going on here?

[1SaG]

@MikeRoePhonicsMusic: Yup, sounds *very* familar. Their comments during the opening credits were pretty much exactly what I went through in the theatre. And from the looks and sound of things, I'd say 90% of the audience that day as well, including the dorky teens who brought their lightsaber-toys. What were you thinking, George?

[ebrach121]

I loved these Star Wars Movies when I was little. :) this one was my favorite I think... but Rifftrax made me laugh like always :)

[phendformyself]

"That was a great role for Paul Giamatti." (*Watto appears*)

[ddd1953]

Having been in the special effects game in LaLaLand for a decade I was lucky to see a few of the gag reels done by the animators. My favorite was in the hanger bay when our duo cuts down the robots.

One robots kneels over a fallen comrade and yells ¨They got Kawoski! damn them! They got Kawoski! Another robot holds him back. ¨Save it soldier, there´ll be another time!¨But Sarge, Kawoski!

Should have put it in the film...love them animators...

[Sutidude]

Furthermore and, Hey wait I'm being wiped.

[baronvg]

I wish they would re-record this riff but with Bill Corbett.

[MoviesFromG]

Episodes:

1 was terrible

2 was under-average

3 was actually pretty good

4 really good

5 incredible

6 really good

Stop exaggerating how bad the prequels are. I understand if your making jokes about them but bitching about them is stupid.

[sailtheplains]

@MoviesFromG

No, 1-3 just really were that terrible. Lazy film making, terrible, nonsensical script writing, poorly written story, butchering of characters, cheapening important elements in the original films by exploiting them, trying to please too many audiences and never figuring out what the themes were, no main character (like Luke Skywalker) to guide us through the plot, terrible acting and blocking and filming.

There are tons of problems with the prequels. Their hatred is warranted.

[MoviesFromG]

@sailtheplains well, i'm assuming the main characters are anikan and obi-wan, so if they left episode one out it would make more sense. yes the story was written poorly and jumped from place to place for little reason, ecept to fill in a gap. for example, when obiwan goes to fight general grevious it was to make sure he wasnt at home when the jedi were killed. i dont see how they exploited the originals. yes anikan and obiwan shouldve been more badass. the big reason 2 like ep 3 was 4 the action

[gentlerat]

@sailtheplains Let's face it though, the original films mostly stole elements from older films and the dialogue in star wars was never that great to begin with.

[TheHexeract]

@gentlerat yeah but it had charm. there was no charm to these newer movies.

[MoviesFromG]

Wow. I remember I loved this when I was about four. Looking back at it this whole movie is a steaming pile of shit. Why the he'll couldn't they just skip right to the second movie (which wasnt that bad but wasn't that good) the first movie is completely useless in the story.

[TrueToonNinja]

"Everyone involved with this movie?" What about Liam Neeson?

[jseeker1867]

Hell, I was watching the movie with the Riff and even then I was close to falling asleep. Though I was laying in bed at 9PM. But still!

[Dangit2019]

I liked this when I was six, but I grew to hate it.

[SpiderFan23]

"Le moo ma de noo ha du trade" "Look GO TO HELL!" lmfao

[LewisofEngland]

Throughout all the 198 or so terrible movies this team riffed during MST3K, I have NEVER heard them be this unhappy about watching a film, its a shame mystery science theater ended, this may of been the movie that finally broke them

[Adamgontierfan19]

@LewisofEngland Actually I think Invasion of the Neptune Men was the movie that beat them it reduced Tom Servo to screaming like a maniac at the screen and he sat through Manos the Hands of Fate

[Badfish178]

@Adamgontierfan19 You're right. In fact, all of them almost broke. They were saved at the last second by the Phantom of Krankor in a hilarious and surprisingly heartwarming scene.

[TheHexeract]

@Adamgontierfan19 Indeed, however both bots broke down at the end of hobgoblins, screaming about how terrible the 80's were

[kissfan7]

@TheHexeract

Excuse my "MST3K" pedantry, but just a quick correction.

That was "Space Mutiny" where the 'bots went crazy and beat up Mike because he grew up in the '80s. "Hobgoblins" was the one where Tom made a cutout of that douchebag directer Rick Sloane and mocked it.

[goherd3112]

Please, its not the worst movie ever. Attack of the Clones was MUCH worse. I think the fact that Anakin is a creepy stalker who watches girls sleep and still somehow manages to get a smoking hot and probably not desparate Senator who looks like Natlalie Portman is worse than an excrutiatingly annoying alien lizard.

[JamesOhGoodie]

Something depressing to think about? Almost all of the major characters in this film are dead by the end of the "Star Wars" saga. Y'know, for kids!

[Gigrantula58]

Is it just me or was Yoda "a dick" in the prequels, compared to when he was living in the Dagoba system?

[skynet091287]

To be fair, Lucas even admitted that the movie was "just to thrill the hearts and the inquiring minds of 12-year-old boys". it was simply his attempt to make the series appeal to a younger audience too...

[sm2142]

so the force explanation went from and energy field generated by all living things to basically being SICK with a disease? BULLSH*T, Lucas! if that was true you'd think the sith would just invent a vaccine for the force!

[ImagineWizard]

@sm2142 You evidently don't understand the meaning of imagination or science, do you? Or indeed, the word 'symbiote'

[Banminator]

episode 2 and 3 were bad, but they were bad in a typical way, the way most blockbusters are bad.  episode 1, however, is just an oddity, its like nobody was in charge of quality control, a complete abortion.

[PunchSydeiron]

The explanation of how the Force works via Midi-Chlorians and the fact that the Immortals from the Highlander series are from the planet Zeist are easily the most audience-insulting, source material disrespecting things ever to happen in film. Plus, this proves a theory that I have about 4th films in a franchise are invariably disappointing to fans and critics alike.

[idno58]

Well, it's official. Weird Al's Parody of this movie is better than the movie itself.

[Spencerbane]

While i will admit that this movie was nowhere near as good as the original 3. the new ones are nowhere near as bad as people say. When you compair them to 3 movies that were way ahead of their time and were freaking awesome most movies would look bad.

[DrThunder88]

Kevin's coughing is so appropriate at 6:12 and thereabout.

[efan2011]

It is ironic because that this was made for kids because when i was a kid I hated this movie

[TheBatman1939]

This is not even close to the worst movie ever made. Get the fuck over yourself.

[textthing]

@TheBatman1939

Still rubbish though. It's actually worse than Manos, because of the sheer waste of money, labour and materials it involved.

[woodgatejack]

It was quite a cathardic moment for me when I looked deep within my soul and admited to myself that I really hate this film.

[rbakbrown]

You know I never noticed that the leader of the Trade Federation does sound like the guy at the Chinese take-out place down the street... his hot & sour soup rules!

[drlee2]

With all due respect to the poster, Clones and Sith are actually WORSE than this movie, so the worst movie ever made title fight should take place between those 2 abysmal CGI-sappy romance snorefests!

[auritone]

Finally Episode 1 is worth seeing.

Thank you, Rifftrax!

I actually fell asleep in the theater when I first saw it.

What a terrible mess these films were.

[UnusualSuspect2011]

There is a possibilty with this diversion. Many gungans will be killed

"Hooray!"

[JustPhilNY]

OOM-9: Rommel, you magnificent son of a bitch, I read your book.

[sonichockeyaug]

We get you some hot andah sour soup while you wait for NOODLE!!!

[Marshmally823]

3:48 ITS BUG!

(anybody understand that Starship joke? Anybody? Just me? Okay..)

[gentlerat]

fyi: hating jar jar is getting very old at this point. It's not original anymore.

[JakenJragin]

3:23 only just noticed the hot purple haired chick next to Jabba. Creepy though as i can't get the idea that she has to 'pleasure' him every now and again *ugh*

[kingj2038]

but there's no more words in the script so let's just end that scene

[SAOrules]

"penishead what do you think?" Laughing my ass off!

[TheDoctorNumber13]

0:35 Hahaha!

[purpleshamrock17]

"Anthony Hopkins can play anything"

3:10 "that's what Cher's gonna look like when her face lift collaspes"

"and i pray that i never have to emote anymore than i just did. I'm exhausted"

7:10-:17

8:01-:04

[TheSlevinCalevra]

"robot voice* Rommel you magnificent son of a bitch, I read your book"

[LivinWorstNightmare]

03:29 uh oh Nascar fans

Great video, but sadly it's true. The newer Star Wars movies were made for kids. Lucas proved that he would rather be lazy after we made him rich buying toys growing up, spending all our money to go see these movies as a kid, that he would half ass it with nothing but special effects. There is no more puppets or creativity outside the computer anymore :(

[sexyglexy]

haha that paul giamati and anthony hopkins riffs kill me. lol

[JakenJragin]

We will we will, Fletupilate you!

[DMCdawg]

Haha, kids love a good penis joke!

[RetroVGamer]

This movie is so beyond boring. That even the guys from Rifftrax are finding it hard to make funny.

[MagicalTrumpy]

i'm glad i'm not the only to notice these movies are racist as shit.

[Koopiac]

Natalie Portman, how far you have come!

[hanz101]

"Look! Go to HELL!" man they are truly sick of jarjar XD. hilarious

[MKat96]

The only things that episodes 1-3 are good for are plot filler, giant battle sequences, great music, and kick-ass lightsaber fights (even if they are cgi)

[Wes964]

@MKat96 I agree, except that I think the light saber duels tend to go on WAY too long.  I agree with the Red Letter Media guys that the light saber duels from the original trilogy, even though they were poorly choreographed compared to the prequels, are better because they are more character driven and contribute more to the story.

[NuGhost]

@Wes964 - I wouldn't even call the original trilogy's fights poorly choreographed. Even the most action packed fight sequences of that time were considered conservative by today's standards. Besides, at least in "Empire" and "Jedi" it looked like they were trying to hit each other w/ the sabers and not just putting on an elaborate dance routine. In the prequels no one was actually trying to kill the other. They were attacking the lightsaber not the person wielding it.

[RoninDave]

@NuGhost yeah there's a part in that long dual between Anakin and Obiwan where they were both twirling their lightsabers without hitting each other than later or before that they were swinging on something and just hit their swords together like they were doing some kind of ballet or a Pirate of Penzance rehearsal.

[rqbuchanan]

@Wes964 The editing and set pieces of those duels were also of superior quality to those of the prequels.

[devindenman]

@Wes964 Most fights in the original trilogy lasted about 6 minutes without other scenes in between. The longest in the prequel trilogy was Anakin and Obi-Wan's, which came in around 8. Though there were more fights overall, of course, especially in Episode III, where there were no less than five, two of them occurring at the same time. I feel like III did get back to more character driven fights (Minus Grievous), especially with Windu-Sidious and Anakin-Obi-Wan, though that's just my opinion.

[textthing]

It would be nice to have an actual story with clearly defined motivations.

[AmericanNohbuddy]

@Wes964

Your cynicism is showing

[psychicllamakiller]

@Wes964 I dont think the length is the problem: it's just that we have no reason to give a crap about any of the characters in the prequels, and the lack of emotional involvement means that lightsabre battles that should have been really exciting and cool end up falling totally flat for one simple reason: WE DONT CARE WHO WINS.

well, actually, i still find yoda kinda endearing, and palpatine's a lot of fun once hes in evil-overlord-mode. but that's it. i couldnt care less about the others -_-

[ahdeath2007]

After seeing the movie i really wanted to make an darkhorse star wars infinities comic version of that tangent universe i created was one hundred times better than this movie

[CaliforniaTD]

The Patton reference made me choke on throes of laughter.

[PabloVlogChannel]

god this movie was upsetting, it make me feel warm inside to see the shitfest get nailed.

[Aknight292]

i thought the chicken thing was hilarious haha XD

[Shanapoo7]

@Aknight292 Lol, a little reminiscent of the Krankor character in the "Prince of Space" episode of MST3K

[CubbieBlue902]

Steve Buschemi ll!

[PubliusAfricanus]

So it's just 2 hours of unfunny George Lucas bashing. Welcome to 1999, I guess.

[LoonyLoveOod]

I'm still confused about how Hayden Christensen turned into James Earl Jones.

[pretorious700]

This film is 10 times funnier than Spaceballs

[JaymzLea]

Wait, who does the voice of the toaster?

[Mysteryblocks]

Keven? His name is Tom Servo. And where was Crow? I barely heard him talking.

[Wes964]

@Mysteryblocks Bill (Crow) wasn't involved with this one. He didn't join in on the Star Wars riffs until Episode III.

[Mysteryblocks]

Oh, darn it.

[MagicalTrumpy]

@Wes964 not all three of them are in every rifftrax, except mike(not counting the others done by other people) I assume due to various schedule conflicts, or something.

[VeryAngryCamel]

@Mysteryblocks dude it took me SO long to learn their real names XD

[Mysteryblocks]

@VeryAngryCamel Yeah?

[LukeLovesRose]

10 minutes in and George Lucas's pant leg is already soaked with urine, having whizzed this film down his leg.

[NewGuy2534]

Geez, Spaceballs had more dignity then this!

[SickBritKid]

Liam Neeson telling Jake Lloyd to shut up was AWESOME!

[stiv6240]

"This movie aimed at kids".

Yeah totally, I totally loved senate meetings and trade negotiations when I was a kid.

[FortySeven]

@stiv6240 lol

RedLetterMedia showed those examples in his Star Wars Episode 1, 2 and 3 reviews.

[BlasphemousApples]

@stiv6240 Well, I guess Lucas wanted to at least try to throw in a story... But... the end result speaks for itself...

@stiv6