[AnotherUnixGeek]

Clearly you haven’t seen Star Trek 5 or Battlefield Earth.

I've seen Star Trek 5 and it was indeed really bad. But Phantom Menace was even worse - at least there were no cloyingly adorable little moppets with designer haircuts pretending to be the young Darth Vader in Star Trek V.

[hopespringseternal]

So PM is "too cute".

I'll take "too cute" over "too dark" any day. And "too cute" is not even in the same league of badness as "what where you thinking" that led to STV and BE.

And when a huge chunk of your audience is smallish children, "too cute" is good business. Rent a half dozen "Barbie" movies and watch them. If you survive the sugar coma, it will put PM in perspective.