Unfortunately, with a sixteen-year pause generating outrageously high expectations, the first episode of the prequel trilogy was disappointingly mediocre, made all the more disheartening by also being George Lucas' first directorial effort since 1977's A New Hope. Ravenous for a new adventure to the fantasy world populated by space cowboys and samurai wizards, famished followers flooded cinemas with mile-long lines for purchasing tickets and later camping in front of buildings for several days. Twenty years ago, The Phantom Menace arguably marked a cinematic milestone in a few areas with the first and foremost being a return to a galaxy far, far away since 1983's Return of the Jedi.
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