I guess I walked away with mixed feelings. It felt familiar, yet distant. I wanted more, but I didn’t. If it achieved anything, watching this film really put me in touch with that tug-of-war between becoming an adult and remaining a naïve kid who wants to sleep with his toy Millennium Falcon. It wasn’t that Lucas made a bad film, it was that he didn’t make me feel 10 years old again. But maybe that wasn’t his objective. When Lucas made the original Star Wars movies, he made them for the 10-year-old inside of him. With the prequels, he made them for the 10-year-old standing next to you at Toys “R” Us.

- Erik Davis, Editor of Movies.com writing about The Phantom Menace.

To mark it’s re-release in theaters, Moviefone interviewed 13 writers about their experience watching George Lucas’ much-hyped Star Wars prequel.