Now enhanced, if that is the word, by 3D, this film originally appeared in 1999, two decades after the first (and best) Stars Wars picture and is in reality the first of three laboured prequels. A prequel doesn't introduce things or people, it presumes we already know the things and the people and leans heavily on the audience noting that Jedi knight Ewan McGregor will later become the wise Alec Guinness, and that the sweet-natured 10-year-old genius Anakin Skywalker will grow up to be the villainous Darth Vader. It's cinematic junk food, the pernicious effect of which had already set in long before this film came out.