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'Star Wars: The Phantom Menace' sounds like a dead horse, too old for a nearly feature-length review given in a low mumbling voice. But over a million viewers took a chance and were rewarded with a film analysis more trenchant than Roger Ebert and funnier than 'How It Should Have Ended'.

This guy explains why you can't remember anything about the characters, story, or theme of the first Star Wars prequel. (Remember? It was that old schemey guy and the young whiny guy settling a dispute...over the taxation...of trade routes.) He explains everything that went right in the old Star Wars movies, and how Lucas failed to do the same in 'Phantom Menace', a "movie for kids" that included long debates in Space Congress.

The language is so very justifiably NSFW.

There. That was cathartic.