• Wouldn't Jar Jar's masters action make him a Sith?? Hatred, anger, murder??

•  do i need to bring up darth vader and the younglings again?

•  You mean the movie where a guy gets cut in half at the waist is a childrens movie? Because, I dunno about you, I find that getting sliced in half to be pretty fricking child-unfriendly.

•  Because god forbid a kid should go see a kids movie. Should have taken him to see Saw or Caligula or something instead!

• The old trilogy taught us that a kid with a dream on some backwater planet could become the greatest power for good in the universe. The new trilogy taught us that a kid with a dream on some backwater planet could become the greatest whiner in the universe.

• This is what I get for reading FFF as our bedtime story every Friday....

• Same here. It was *just* noticeable enough to be distracting.

• Jedi Guy was far more annoying than Jar Jar. And I'm no fan of Jar Jar.

• I'm neither Lucas nor Jar-Jar, but I still didn't laugh. That being the case, I still  appreciate any effort to murder Jar-Jar or any hapless comedy sidekicks. No if only someone would give Orko this kind of treatment....

• Exactly what I was thinking: I spent most of the video trying to figure out where he was from, or if he's American: Where he's trying to SOUND like he's from. :-/

• Jar-Jar isn't really the worst Star Wars character nor is he the reason Phantom Menace sucks. Unfortunately, he's just an easy scapegoat for a larger pile of shit. Yes he's a stupid "cartoon rabbit" ala Roger Rabbit, but he's actually got more character than any of the wooden cutouts like Padame, Qui-Gon, or Obiwan. He's not as annoying as "Little Orphan Annie", not as boring as Obiwan, not as racist as the Asian Trade Federation aliens, and not as pointless as Qui-Gon. The problem is that he's such a central character and sticks out in a boring mess of a movie that we can easily find annoyance with his antics which would be better suited for Toon Town than Star Wars.

• That's the most depressing (yet apt) synopsis of the Star Wars franchise I've EVER heard :(

• ... You realize that children enjoy movies in a far different way than how Rob "enjoyed" Tron Legacy, right?

• Exactly! Nerd parents: Do not lament your younglings' love for Jar Jar--raise them right, and they'll grow into proper Geeks who'll look back on their childhoods and wonder aloud: "WHAT WAS I THINKING???"

• That's what I came on to say! XD

• There are different kinds of funny. You can laugh at C-3PO because his personality is often at odds with his circumstances.  C-3PO, however flawed, is not irredeemably stupid. Jar-Jar, on the other hand, will find the one action in any situation which is the most braindead.  The "humor" comes from him doing something anyone with the slightest sense would avoid.  Even Jackass or America's Funniest Home Videos is funnier because in those instances the humor comes from them either knowing how stupid it is beforehand or from accidents. Star Wars was about two men who became heroes -- one who sought a way out of his boring existence and rose to the challenge, the other who didn't want to get involved but couldn't live with himself if he didn't.  The average viewer can identify with either one, and it was their actions and choices that saved the day. The Phantom Menace is about two annoyances -- a kid who can't act, and an idiot who can't stop himself from acting out -- who stumble into greatness through sheer dumb luck, coincidence, and completely unintended actions that magically work out somehow.  The message is that it isn't what you do or what choices you make; so long as you are lucky, complete morons will win out over anyone else.

•  Transformers is still awesome. You just can't see it.

• Clever editing for humiliating actively terrible characters will never not be funny, and few characters have ever killed every scene they were in like Jar Jar Binks.

• John Cena is still awesome. You just can't see it.

• Did Lucas put Jar Jar in the prequels so we could hate Jar Jar more and kinda forget about Lucas..? He failed.

• It's always more entertaining to watch someone be awful at drama than awful at comedy, therefor, any performance of Anikin in any <i>Star Wars</i> movie has more value than Jar Jar's business. That said, I do understand why kids like <i>The Phantom Menace</i>, when I was a kid, <i>The Phantom Menace</i> was fucking awesome, but so were the <i>Transformers</i>, <i>Yu Gi Oh</i>, and John Cena. Children are really easy to entertain, children are like Rob watching <i>Tron: Legacy</i>.

•  Well, your first failure was taking him to see it.

• If only there actually was a way to actually kill off awful pet characters behind the backs of their loving creators, but sadly, any such technology would likely be squandered by fanfiction writers and autistics as soon as it became available to the general public. It's a shame too, I'd love to give the same treatment to the likes of Dawn Summers, Wesley Crusher, Shinji Ikari, and especially fucking Sasuke.

• Is the Jedi guy in this German or South African or something? What is that accent? It's kind of off putting

• i have no sense of humor, but that is fine for i laugh all the time :)

• "Weesa goin home!" "SHUT THE FUCK UP" -Exactly what I thought in '99, and what I've been thinking ever since. Star Wars Episodes I-III made me the bitter bastard I am now.

• I don't know.  This probably would have been a lot funnier ten years ago.  I'm a Pistol Shrimps subscriber, though.

• I'd rather spend 10-12 bucks on a model of an X Wing, at least when I'm done with it it will look like the original movie.

• I rather spend the 10-12 bucks to see a full length theatrical version of this than shell out the money to see Star Wars 3D.

• I still dont get why people hate Jar Jar....he is funny. Stupid funny but funny nonetheless. There are worse characters than Jar Jar. 

• you took him to see TPM (you may as well have read a braxy story to him) that was mistake 1. 

• I always felt like Jar Jar was a scapegoat. I mean, sure, he's lame and unfunny and too over the top, but the truth is, if the prequels were any good at all, nothing he did would have mattered. Taking out Jar Jar, or killing him, wouldn't change the fact that the plot was a convoluted mess, the characters had no personalities, the mostly talented actors flatly read their lines because Lucas hates directing human beings, the CGI overwhelmed EVERYTHING, Lucas grossly contradicted a story he himself wrote and has spent the last three decades inhabiting in countless ways, and anything that might have been good (like the lightsaber dueling) was so overdone that it was robbed of all emotional impact. So, you know, a dumb goofball with a funny voice is pretty minor compared to all that.

• I would watch 3 hours of Jar Jar dying in different ways...

• Little observation. This occurs to me because of a recent "Horror Etc" Podcast (check it out), where one of the podcasters showed his daughter, who had never seen any Star Wars before, all six of the movies (in release order) and asked her views. Anyway, she like Jar Jar Binks because she thought he was funny. No surprise there. However, I've worked out what is wrong with Jar Jar hate. Look back at The Phantom Menace. What is actually good in it, particularly for a young child? Ignore how much you hate Jar Jar for a moment, pretend he isn't there. Now what else is there to be happy about? The film begins with talk of taxation and trade routes. Heck, even those of us old enough to know what that was on about didn't care about that bit. So then the Jedi have turned up in the glamorous position of.... negotiating some kind of business settlement? Okay, so after a while they start fighting robots, but asides from the presence of light sabres this isn't really anything special and let's face it, we are missing the main things we need in order to enjoy it (a) a sense of context and (b) endearing characters. These Jedi look determined and are good at fighting, but they don't have any real individuality. So yeah, eventually they meet up with Jar Jar. And, let's face it, Jar Jar is the first good guy in the movie who actually has a personality. What's more sure his style of humour is lowest common denominator slapstick and that's what everyone hates, but if you accept it for what it is then it does the job. If you compare Jar Jar to little Anakin I'm not actually sure that Jar Jar comes off the worst of the two. The point is this. The Phantom Menace is a pile of old rubbish. When you are a young child used to the kind of dire rubbish that is often foisted on children and you are taken to this big budget spectacle by your parents, you are inevitably asked at the end what you thought. You don't get to go to cinema all the time, so you are disinclined to say "well that was stupid" and heck, you've seen worse. So your natural reaction to a film is to think of what bits were most appealing. After all, there's been so much buzz on Saturday morning TV that there must be SOMETHING good in it right? So which bit was moderately entertaining? Well.... I suppose the clumsy cartoon rabbit who speaks in a silly voice was moderately entertaining. Of course, you don't express yourself like that when you are young. So you are more likely to say: "Jar Jar was funny." Yeah, don't look down on their perspective. We are more susceptible to hype as young children than later on because we don't have such good critical thinking skills to work out when we are being fed rubbish. A child saying that Jar Jar Binks was the best thing about "The Phantom Menace", even if that extends to owning Jar Jar Binks merchandise, is about as eloquent and damning a critique of "The Phantom Menace" as you going to find.... That said, I thought Darth Maul was pretty cool. ;)

• There can never be enough Jar Jar death.

• Hasbro showed a Jar Jar in carbonate figure this weekend at Toy Fair.

• I always found this was the best "Jar Jar dies" edit, since it actually works in context of the film: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObcYgDZ9aqo

• +5 points for labeling the video under <b>"Good Causes"</b>

• Took my little one to see TPM this weekend (he's 6) and he LOVED Jar Jar Binks. I now feel like a failure as a geek dad :(

• but if you don't laugh when Anakin yells "IT'S WORKING -- IT'S WORKING!" you're either Jar Jar,  George Lucas or have a sense of humour

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