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William Shakespeare's The Phantom of Menace
May 2020: Comedy
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(Poll Ballot Tally) William Shakespeare's The Phantom of Menace by Ian Doescher - 2.5 stars
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I liked that he made Jar-Jar more bearable by giving him asides that showed his idiocy was a pretense. What surprised me was the hint of immaculate conception of Anakin's mother that I never caught in the movie, and I wonder now if it was there in the original material or if it's an invention of Doescher's. Regardless, it's cringey.
So my rating is 2.5, and I will round up only because I think Doescher's whole idea of Shakespearizing Star Wars is a brilliant concept and he has executed it admirably, and a component of that admiration is he did it pretty concisely!