Mr. Plinkett’s final installment of reviews of the latest Star Wars films (which I mentioned earlier) is complete and was posted last week. It’s more goodness from my favorite scifi movie reviewer/serial killer and it’s worth a look. Also, Plinkett gets name-checked by another of my favorite film critics, Roger Ebert.

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Red Letter Media‘s film reviewer Plinkett is an obscene and slovenly, garble-mouthed shut-in. He is almost certainly schizophrenic, he is definitely a predator of women and its likely he is a serial killer. Chief among his deprivations are his tendency to kidnap and terrorize women, his nihilist attitude and his reverent obsession with Totino’s Pizza Rolls.

In spite of these enormous failings he delivers some of the most shrewd, compelling analyses of science fiction films in particular and narrative format in general. His earlier critiques focus on the Star Trek: The Next Generation films, but his reviews of the first two Star Wars films is where he transcends the role of typical reviewer and becomes an actual artiste of the form.

What follows is an utterly devastating sequence of take-downs, point-by-point, of The Phantom Menace and The Clone Wars punctuated with Plinkett’s own Silence of the Lambs-like back-story. There are some call-backs to earlier reviews of his Trek films, but they dovetail so nicely that little explanation is required. It’s plainly obvious Plinkett loves Star Wars and Star Trek, and his appreciation for them provides the fuel for his disdain of what has become of both franchises and what could have been.

Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace (7 parts)

Star Wars Episode 2: Attack of the Clones (9 parts)