"Dialogue isn't the point," wrote the late Roger Ebert in the most prominent positive review of Phantom Menace. The movie was about "new things to look at." Hence the stunning vistas of Naboo ...

Few of those designs are more memorable than the B1 series Battle Droids, the largely disposable clankers who love to utter weird catchphrases like, "Roger, Roger!" But what most fans don't ...