The Skywalker Saga would never have happened if not for Watto rejecting Qui-Gon Jinn's Republic credits in Star Wars: Episode ...

The teeth-gnashing aspects of “Star Wars: The Phantom Menace” have been chewed upon for a quarter century, from Watto to Anakin Skywalker’s Midi-chlorian count (and miracle birth) to almost ...

Watto was introduced in 1999’s Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace, owning a young Anakin Skywalker and his mother Shmi as slaves working in his junkshop.

In 1999, The Phantom Menace looked state-of-the-art. Even critics who didn’t care for its story praised its CGI. Today, it looks sterile and phony.

Newman, who last year told the" Empire Film Podcast " that, as a Jewish person, he was obsessed with the antisemitic tropes displayed by Watto in “The Phantom Menace,” plays the character as ...

The post Star Wars: The Phantom Menace Works Best When Seen Through a Child’s Eyes: ’99 Rewind appeared first on Consequence. Not to mention the fact that at that point in pop culture history ...

Kids need Watto now more than ever. In 2022, Ewan McGregor, who plays young Obi-Wan Kenobi, discussed the ever-shifting legacy of the prequels. “It was tricky at the time.

In conjunction with Star Wars Day, a.k.a. May the 4th Be With You, The Phantom Menace is being re-released into theaters nationwide this weekend. It’s about time kids got to see Watto the way he ...