31st August 2011, 9:07 PM
Rather than pick at nits and try to point out the main glaring flaws with the PT, I'll instead boil them down to a few general points:
1. Trying Too Hard [repeating memorable phrases from the OT, lots of obvious OT references everywhere, and the humor]
2. The Humor [in TPM it was Jar Jar being horribly clumsy all the time, in AotC it was C-3PO suddenly spouting puns for no reason; in general just a lot of slapstick humor that was rarely present in the OT aside from a little bit in Return of the Jedi and the added Mos Eisley scene in A New Hope]
3. No Memorable Action Scenes [the battle with Darth Maul and the pod race are pretty good, as well as some scattered scenes in the other two movies; overall the action scenes are just flat, devoid of impact. They're poorly paced, poorly set up, and lack for imagination and sense]
4. Bloated [there are way too many scenes and lines of dialog that only exist to pad out the movie or to simply state the obvious; scenes range from minute, like the deathsticks dealer in Attack of the Clones, to massive, like the Tatooine segment from The Phantom Menace which took up nearly a third of the run time but served no purpose other than to introduce Anakin]
1. Trying Too Hard [repeating memorable phrases from the OT, lots of obvious OT references everywhere, and the humor]
2. The Humor [in TPM it was Jar Jar being horribly clumsy all the time, in AotC it was C-3PO suddenly spouting puns for no reason; in general just a lot of slapstick humor that was rarely present in the OT aside from a little bit in Return of the Jedi and the added Mos Eisley scene in A New Hope]
3. No Memorable Action Scenes [the battle with Darth Maul and the pod race are pretty good, as well as some scattered scenes in the other two movies; overall the action scenes are just flat, devoid of impact. They're poorly paced, poorly set up, and lack for imagination and sense]
4. Bloated [there are way too many scenes and lines of dialog that only exist to pad out the movie or to simply state the obvious; scenes range from minute, like the deathsticks dealer in Attack of the Clones, to massive, like the Tatooine segment from The Phantom Menace which took up nearly a third of the run time but served no purpose other than to introduce Anakin]
Sometimes you get the scorpion.