We got rebel spies. We got a death star. Holy shit. Are you hyped for this movie or what, J.D.?

I am positively turgid right now. Okay, now let's read the first two parts from The Phantom Menace Crawl.

Turmoyle has engulfed the Galactic Republic. The taxation of trade routes to outlying star systems is in dispute.

JD, are you psyched for this movie?

Boner killed.

Hello and welcome to Is This Bad?

A show where we rewatch movies that we did not love and with some, test our priors to decide once and for all, is this bad?

I'm joined by my bearded Ebert, Jason Doyle.

Hello.

Hi, JD.

Thanks for coming.

And producing the show, she saw Rachel Doyle.

I'm the Jar Jar Banks of this show, right?

Awesome. I mean, I didn't mean it that way. I really did just want to say Shisa. You're not the Jar Jar Jar of the show. No. That's fine. We're going to learn more about Jarja as we go on here. Today's movie, of course, Star Wars Episode 1, The Phantom Menace,

and to discuss this movie properly, we needed an expert. But before I introduced him and status qualifications, and boy, is he of qualifications. If you're watching the show,

you could see his qualifications right now before I've said anything. I need to address

something. So, J.D., I thought that the premise of the show was supposed

to be good movies that most people seem to love that we did not love. But Phantom Menace

was largely reviled when it came out in 1999. It has a 52% critic score on Rotten Tomatoes.

So people are probably listening to this now going, well, if you didn't like it,

you were right.

So why are you questioning yourself and rewatching it?

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