Here’s a video review of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace that’s blowing up all across the internet. It’s not some whiny fan bitching about Jar Jar. It’s a masterpiece. Second for second, this video review is as entertaining as anything I’ve watched. It’s both educational and funny. And possibly sexually arousing.

It’s a no-holds-barred assault on the movie, brutally unpacking it scene by scene. He describes how the story doesn’t work, how the characters don’t work, how the plot makes no sense…

…and yet he never becomes annoying or obnoxious or negative for the sake of being negative.

And whenever you start to get comfortable, the craziness starts. He’ll be in the middle dissecting some piece of dialogue, and then suddenly he’ll veer off on to a tangent about murdering prostitutes and locking children in his basement. It’s awful and disgusting. AND HILARIOUS.

The Phantom Menace was the first Star Wars movie I watched, so I guess I wasn’t as offended by it as other Star Wars fans. Comparing it with the first three movies, yeah, it isn’t the same thing. The soul isn’t there. The first three movies were simple and fun. The Phantom Menace was tedious, overbearing, and exhausting to watch. And the guy nailed a point really well, there’s not a single character in that movie you can emotionally connect with. It’s as dry as a documentary.

The video is 70 minutes long, but it’s totally worth your time. I linked the first part above. To see the rest, click on the video to open up a new Youtube window and you’ll see the other parts in the Related Videos box.