Only worth renting for visual effects, and even those aren't qualitatively more impressive than average syndicated tv sci-fi, just vastly more expensive. The Jedi versus evil Darths stuff is mildly evocative of the past movies' story interest, but is overwhelmed by cutesy crap with the young Anakin Skywalker (who is utterly unsuggestive of the future Darth Vader) and overfamiliar noisy battle scenes. The most interesting character would be new baddie Darth Maul, except that he gets sub-supporting screen time. Liam Neeson , Ewan McGregor and Natalie Portman all make very little impression interacting mildly with their computer-generated costars, the most execrable of which is alien-du-jour Jar Jar Binks, who comes close to shutting the movie down altogether during its first 30 minutes. If only Lucas had diverted a small proportion of the make-up budget toward hiring a solid writer and director to work with his human cast . . .