For instance, a major plot point of The Phantom Menace is the pod racing sequence. Children need a character who looks like them and is in their age group to get behind. When this same character ...

DETROW: After the movie, I piloted my pod racer back to the NPR newsroom and called up Erich Schwartzel to talk more about the legacy of "The Phantom Menace." Schwartzel covers the film industry ...

mainly the pod race and Duel of the Fates. Will you see it again? "Every generation has a legend..." Here's the 2024 trailers for George Lucas' Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace ...

I would be lying if I didn’t feel some nostalgia watching the pod-racing scene and the final fight on Naboo. However, “The Phantom Menace” is not a perfect film. One of the biggest things ...

Well, folks, strap in and prepare your midichlorians for a nostalgia trip to a galaxy far, far away with Star Wars: The Phantom Menace ... transition from cute pod-racing tot to homicidal maniac ...

To mark the movie's 25th anniversary, Star Wars: Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace is returning ... The exciting Pod-Race, the epic three-way lightsaber duel between Darth Maul, Obi-Wan and Qui ...

But the slave boy Anakin Skywalker offers to dispute a race with his pod to raise the necessary money. Qui-Gon feels the Force in the boy and accepts his offer. Will the boy win the race?

Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace set the tone for the Prequel Trilogy with its lavish costumes, impressive sets, and cutting-edge special effects back in 1999, and if you'd like a closer ...

In The Phantom Menace our heroes are waylaid by a faulty ... This is a section so flabby that even the electrifying pod race goes on for one lap too long. But hell, we meet Vader Jnr.