Everytime Jar Jar is on screen he successfully destroys the emotional tone of the scene - something which movies need. Boy did Lucas fuck these films up.
+Matt Otter I think Jar-Jar was basically the standard-bearer for everything that was wrong with the prequels. It wasn't that he was the worst of any one thing, but he was just so bad in so many ways that he draws the majority of fire.
Episode II would've been three times more bearable if they'd just killed him off in the first 10 minutes. Think about it... no matter how much the rest of it sucked... at least they killed Jar Jar.
Real Reason Jar Jar was made a General: Captain Tarpos was the real leader, while the Gungans hoped Jar Jar's antacts would get him blown to smithereens Real Reason Jar Jar was made Senator for the Gungans: they wanted him as far away from Naboo as possible for as long as possible
My reasoning was, was that the Gungans were using Jar Jar as a Weapon of Mass Suicide. They wanted to inflict Jar Jar onto the whole universe, the sick bastards!
+csgrambauer Or they just wanted to get rid of him. The other Gungans hated Jar Jar as much as the audience did so they were probably just hoping he'd die.
3:35 is still one of my favorite moments to watch on RUclips again and again, the sheer disdain in his voice is perfect, 'Look, GO TO HELL!' followed by the laughter kills me every time
I still remember kids my age saying "how woode" after seeing phantom menace in theaters. The movie itself made us think he was funny, even though we never actually laughed.
It makes me smile when I think, in an alternate reality, Jar Jar and Neelix met up somewhere, went on some wacky adventures, spreading discord and chaos as they did before but with twice the ineptitude, and were violently torn to shreds (spaghettified) when their ship was thrown into a black hole.
I love how at some points they just give up on trying to say anything witty and just resort to making fake throw up noises and yelling "Shut the hell up!" Jar Jar definitely has that effect on people.
While Jar Jar interacts with a few characters, he only two that show him any degree of humanity are Qui-Gon who gets him out of trouble with the Gungans and Padme who appoints him as her replacement in the senate. Appropriately, both characters die.
So Boss Nass decided Jar Jar was the *perfect* choice to be a GENERAL in the Gungan army and lead them into battle...just because he made friends with a couple Jedi (and wasn't helpful in ANY way)....and then they ended up made him a *representative* too. I mean, why the hell not? His *incredible* leadership skills include saying "Steady, steady"...
You know Jar Jar basically was the one who gave palpatene power so in a way Jar Jar Binks destroyed the republic and caused millions of deaths not to mention the Jedi almost being wiped out lol
Jar Jar: Mesa Jar Jar Binks. Mesa here to askin you to surrender (Hands him a note from Boss Nass that reads: YOUR MOTHERS WERE TRASH COMPACTORS Signed: Jar Jar Binks) Battle Droid: WHAT MY MOTHER WAS A SAINT. TARE HIM APART BOYS
The most well-loved fan-made piece of merchandise connected with the prequels was, and continues to be, severed Jar Jar heads that you could mount on your wall and use as dart boards. Any character in THE LAST JEDI who has Jar Jar's skull mounted on his wall is going to be cheered as a conquering hero.
no hassle Anakin is worse. Amadilla is worse, she has no emotion. The Trade Federation people with their accents are arguable worse. The king gungan is worse. The fact that C3PO was in it is worse. So yeah, quite a few actually
Was anyone surprised that Jar-Jar was the one who gave Palpatine absolute power over the galaxy, thereby ushering in a period of unthinkable tyranny and sealing the doom of millions, if not billions, of innocent lives? Yeah, me neither.
Y'know, one of the most depressing things I found about the prequels was that I knew all of the characters (Qui Gon, Yoda, Anakin, Padme, Obi Wan, etc) would be dead by the end of the saga. Even more depressing? Jar Jar apparently lived. Worst Galactic war in a thousand years AND JAR JAR SURVIVES.
The only problem with relentlessly ridiculing Jar Jar is that some people may get the idea that without him the prequels would be good. While its true that removing him would slightly improve the prequels, they are so fundamentally broken that no amount of changes could ever make them even the slightest bit enjoyable.
Palpatine manipulates Jar Jar into putting forward the motion to give the Chancellor emergency powers, leading to the army Palpatine later uses to gain total power. Jar Jar is instrumental in the rise of the Galactic Empire. The blood of billions is on his hands. Fuckin' Jar Jar.
Is it wrong or illegal if i think Jar Jar is hilarious because when i was first introduced to star wars and i first saw him, i thought he was hilarious.
Its funny how we all want Jar Jar dead, but I don't even think he's worthy of a death scene or even an acknowledgment of his passing. He just shouldn't have come about in any of the movies.
I think Jar Jar would have been much more forgivable if he actually meant to do any of that heroic bad ass stuff during the battle. Using those giant "boomers" and taking over the tank. That would at least give him some character development.
@gaozhi2007 I remember that scene from the making of documentary. I was utterly flabbergasted at first, but then it came to me: THIS EXPLAINS EVERYTHING. Lucas was utterly delusional throughout the entire creative process. He really had absolutely no idea what would appeal to audiences. He was actually in a state of mind where he thought Jar Jar would win over the fans. He was completely out of touch with reality.
Actually, Lucas had very little involvement in the Star Wars Holiday Special. Really all he did was give a variety "entertainment" group the rights to make a Star Wars spin-off. He didn't direct it, write it, or produce it. That still doesn't excuse him or the Holiday Special.
"we seek lame comic relief for our journey!" LOL! I like Jar-Jar, since I kinda grew up with Phantom Menace. I think he and the Gun Gan battle were some of the best parts to this movie
@ConnorsCreations24 It's okay. The biggest highlight for the movie's release was how much CG they incorporated into the franchise; so I was more impressed/distracted by THAT rather than the characters.
@JamesOhGoodie We don't know that. There was a 20-year gap between Episodes 3 and 4, which is plenty of time for Jar Jar to have died an agonizing death off-screen.
6:09 Jar Jar just completely misinterpreted and sabotaged Padme's entire campaign in the Senate. Well, that's what happens when you leave Jar Jar in charge! A vicious intergalactic war breaks out.
@SchweitzerMan it comes from the extras Episode one. You can also hear it on the Red Letter Media review for TPM, which if you haven't seen yet, then your life is empty.
I do like Lucas' choice of role for Jar Jar in Attack of the Clones. Why? Because if you're actually managing to follow what's going on, it turns out that by extension Jar Jar is ENTIRELY responsible for the rise of the Empire.
Rifftrax, even you guys couldn't save this movie. I tried to laugh but only remembered that I actually paid money I will never see again to have watched this disaster at the theater.
"Look, go to hell." 😂😂😂
I don't know why, but of all insults, that made me laugh the hardest.
SAME. It's the timing and delivery and how it just comes out of nowhere that makes it so great!
Everytime Jar Jar is on screen he successfully destroys the emotional tone of the scene - something which movies need. Boy did Lucas fuck these films up.
+Matt Otter I think Jar-Jar was basically the standard-bearer for everything that was wrong with the prequels. It wasn't that he was the worst of any one thing, but he was just so bad in so many ways that he draws the majority of fire.
@@TheRogueWolf - Maybe Jar Jar was brought in to make the audience forget how god awful annoying the 5 year old Anakin is.
Episode II would've been three times more bearable if they'd just killed him off in the first 10 minutes. Think about it... no matter how much the rest of it sucked... at least they killed Jar Jar.
They should have had Torgo rather than Jar Jar Binks to bring both comedy and dignity to that role.
Gungans ah-arten't dyin' wi-without a f-fight. W--we a-re warriors. Th-e MasTeR got a grand army. That's why you no spending the nigh..t, mesa thinks.
5:53 "God, It would be so easy to grab those eye stalks, one in each hand, and just twist them off!"
I died laughing XD
Hahaha that was my favorite line.
Real Reason Jar Jar was made a General: Captain Tarpos was the real leader, while the Gungans hoped Jar Jar's antacts would get him blown to smithereens
Real Reason Jar Jar was made Senator for the Gungans: they wanted him as far away from Naboo as possible for as long as possible
snakes3425 Not that I blame them.
My reasoning was, was that the Gungans were using Jar Jar as a Weapon of Mass Suicide. They wanted to inflict Jar Jar onto the whole universe, the sick bastards!
+csgrambauer Or they just wanted to get rid of him. The other Gungans hated Jar Jar as much as the audience did so they were probably just hoping he'd die.
Xehanort10
Yeah that too. Just pity he didn't die though. :/
csgrambauer They should have shown a quick clip of Anakin killing Jar Jar once he became Darth Vader in Revenge of the Sith.
I love the pure loathing.
JarJar: "Hello!"
Mike: "Oh get bent."
I love how Mike's riffs progressively get angrier towards Jar Jar.
3:35 is still one of my favorite moments to watch on RUclips again and again, the sheer disdain in his voice is perfect, 'Look, GO TO HELL!' followed by the laughter kills me every time
"How Wude" is when the star wars universe disintegrated for me.
oh my god there's so little riffing on this one! just straight up hatred... i love it!
"Meesa going hoooome!" "Oh do so completely shut up!"
Jar Jar looks like Roger Rabbit if he was designed by Satan.
* Redesigned
I'm six years late, but: Good one.
"Oh, do you think he got a brain clot and died?"
"We couldn't possibly be that blessed."
This was the point where we all realized Lucas went completely pants crapping insane.
"He dies now right? Please tell me he dies!" 🤣 The genuine hate from them never gets old lmao.
I still remember kids my age saying "how woode" after seeing phantom menace in theaters. The movie itself made us think he was funny, even though we never actually laughed.
"Jar jar is the key to all of this." --George Lucas
This commentary is the only good thing to come from Jar-Jar.
I lost it when Mike said "LOOK GO TO HELL!"
"Look, GO TO HELL!" was my favorite part.
3:41 "Ah, so I see, he's like Buster Keaton without the agility, the timing, the subtlety, the charm, or the talent."
I DIED
It makes me smile when I think, in an alternate reality, Jar Jar and Neelix met up somewhere, went on some wacky adventures, spreading discord and chaos as they did before but with twice the ineptitude, and were violently torn to shreds (spaghettified) when their ship was thrown into a black hole.
Jar Jar: Whensa yousa thinksa wesa in trouble
Me: When you showed up!!
Jar Jar: "Hello."
Mike: "Aw, get bent!!!"
I love how at some points they just give up on trying to say anything witty and just resort to making fake throw up noises and yelling "Shut the hell up!"
Jar Jar definitely has that effect on people.
or as RLM puts it, the cartoon rabbit that steps in the poopie
"Do you think he got a brain clot and died?"
"We couldn't possibly be that blessed"
No. We're not.
"Hedo!"
"Ah get bent!"
😂
He's the real life Charles Foster Kane. He went from being a young man who fought against the system, to becoming the system when he became older.
While Jar Jar interacts with a few characters, he only two that show him any degree of humanity are Qui-Gon who gets him out of trouble with the Gungans and Padme who appoints him as her replacement in the senate. Appropriately, both characters die.
"Mesa used to work on my fiat back in Kingston you know man"
You know it’s sincere when the jokes are absent and it’s just pure unfiltered hatred
"Hello!" "Oh dear god, no...." LMFAO
So Boss Nass decided Jar Jar was the *perfect* choice to be a GENERAL in the Gungan army and lead them into battle...just because he made friends with a couple Jedi (and wasn't helpful in ANY way)....and then they ended up made him a *representative* too. I mean, why the hell not? His *incredible* leadership skills include saying "Steady, steady"...
You know Jar Jar basically was the one who gave palpatene power so in a way Jar Jar Binks destroyed the republic and caused millions of deaths not to mention the Jedi almost being wiped out lol
This riff is something I've dreamed of since I first saw "The Phantom Menace".
Jar Jar: Mesa Jar Jar Binks. Mesa here to askin you to surrender (Hands him a note from Boss Nass that reads: YOUR MOTHERS WERE TRASH COMPACTORS Signed: Jar Jar Binks)
Battle Droid: WHAT MY MOTHER WAS A SAINT. TARE HIM APART BOYS
The most well-loved fan-made piece of merchandise connected with the prequels was, and continues to be, severed Jar Jar heads that you could mount on your wall and use as dart boards. Any character in THE LAST JEDI who has Jar Jar's skull mounted on his wall is going to be cheered as a conquering hero.
Jar Jar is The Phantom Menace's main character really!
Phantom Menace is Jar Jar the movie
Morgan Stephens
Yeah, and little dork Anakin's.
no hassle Yet he was still better than some of the characters in this movie
Morgan Stephens
Who Jar Jar or Anakin?
no hassle Anakin is worse. Amadilla is worse, she has no emotion. The Trade Federation people with their accents are arguable worse. The king gungan is worse. The fact that C3PO was in it is worse. So yeah, quite a few actually
Jar Jar is adorable. How can you not like him?
Ok, this is almost too much, but "Ok, get out and push, horse-lizard" was pretty funny 😂
At 4:30 he's hopping up and down on a dead body. Even if it's one of the enemy, shouldn't that interfere with his cute comic relief character image?
Sith Lord confirmed. Lmao
Jar Jar Binks makes his dubious debut.
Ewoks: Pariahs No More! Lovable little Nerf-herders!
Jar Jar is what it looks like when Cher's face lift collapses
Was anyone surprised that Jar-Jar was the one who gave Palpatine absolute power over the galaxy, thereby ushering in a period of unthinkable tyranny and sealing the doom of millions, if not billions, of innocent lives?
Yeah, me neither.
KILL IT! Kill it with fire!!!
Thank heaven for the RiffTrax guys, they drown out most of the jar jar stupidity!
"We seek lame comic relief for our journey."
"Look, go to hell!"
The instant Jar Jar opened with the line "Dellow Felegates..." in front of the entire Senate I would've thrown him right the fuck out.
Jar Jar would have been funnier had the enemy had a Jar Jar, and the two got a few Spy vs. Spy moments. Of course the film would suck harder for it
In New Jersey, Municipal Landfills 4, 7 and 8 are filled with nothing but unsold Jar Jar merchandise.
Without Jar Jar Binks, a good riff from the people at Rifftrax would not be possible.
“Dellow Felegates” Jesus Christ
Thank you George Lucas for making my soul cry ! Thank you rifftrax for making my soul smile with your witty comments !
The Star Wars Holiday Special was never supposed to be taken seriously.
4.51 An army of Jar Jars with vuvuzelas. How much more could we ask?
Y'know, one of the most depressing things I found about the prequels was that I knew all of the characters (Qui Gon, Yoda, Anakin, Padme, Obi Wan, etc) would be dead by the end of the saga.
Even more depressing? Jar Jar apparently lived. Worst Galactic war in a thousand years AND JAR JAR SURVIVES.
Jar Jar being Plagus makes sense. Jar Jar was a plague upon us
It's worse when you find out that originally he has going to be a Sith double agent.
20 seconds after Jar-Jar's appearance:
Me: if chopping down this guy, is using the dark side, then i gladly embrace the Sith.
I remember "How wude" being a catchphrase from FULL HOUSE. FULL HOUSE.
"Horse Lizard!?" Why didn't I think of that!?
And they say Alderaan's destruction was the greatest atrocity the galaxy has ever known.....
Or when Kevin just loses it and starts puking. Those are some realistic sound effects there...unless he's actually sick, which I fully believe. XD
Mike: He bugs your soul?
Kevin: Actually, yes.
BEST. SUMMARY. OF JAR JAR, EVER. XD
i think i just figured out my childhood fear of the deep sea, which i still have. its because fuckin jar jar lives under there
The only problem with relentlessly ridiculing Jar Jar is that some people may get the idea that without him the prequels would be good. While its true that removing him would slightly improve the prequels, they are so fundamentally broken that no amount of changes could ever make them even the slightest bit enjoyable.
Wouldn't that make him sound like Elmo as Eeyore? To me, Jar Jar Binks sounds like Elmo at the edge of puberty.
You know politician Jar-Jar isnt so outlandish, nowadays.
Palpatine manipulates Jar Jar into putting forward the motion to give the Chancellor emergency powers, leading to the army Palpatine later uses to gain total power.
Jar Jar is instrumental in the rise of the Galactic Empire.
The blood of billions is on his hands.
Fuckin' Jar Jar.
You think he got a brain clot and died?
We couldn't possibly be that blessed. ROFL
Is it wrong or illegal if i think Jar Jar is hilarious because when i was first introduced to star wars and i first saw him, i thought he was hilarious.
No it just suggests to the rest of us that you were born around 1994.
hegelbot Hey, that's raci...agist...
I was born in 1994 and I hate star wars, including the originals.
If anyone has the Acolyte series, Jar Jar Binks is no longer worst thing to happen to the Star Wars franchise.
@Wes964 the look on the fellow producers faces throughout the whole thing says it all
"Go right to hell!" Do not pass Go, do not collect $200!
Jar jar is like a huge toddler it's adorable I love him one of my favorite characters
Its funny how we all want Jar Jar dead, but I don't even think he's worthy of a death scene or even an acknowledgment of his passing. He just shouldn't have come about in any of the movies.
Ha,ha!!! Amen guys! Jar Jar so needed an heroic death. Letting him live was such an injustice!
I think Jar Jar would have been much more forgivable if he actually meant to do any of that heroic bad ass stuff during the battle. Using those giant "boomers" and taking over the tank. That would at least give him some character development.
Do you think he had a brain stroke and died
We couldn't possibly be that blessed.
@gaozhi2007 I remember that scene from the making of documentary. I was utterly flabbergasted at first, but then it came to me: THIS EXPLAINS EVERYTHING. Lucas was utterly delusional throughout the entire creative process. He really had absolutely no idea what would appeal to audiences. He was actually in a state of mind where he thought Jar Jar would win over the fans. He was completely out of touch with reality.
I'm still waiting for Disney to respond to the Jar-Jar hate with a Gungan TV show like what George did with the Ewoks hate.
What the hell was Lucas on when he created this character? Whatever it was, I want to stay as far away from it as possible.
"It's as if Roger Rabbit was re-designed by Satan."
Actually, Lucas had very little involvement in the Star Wars Holiday Special. Really all he did was give a variety "entertainment" group the rights to make a Star Wars spin-off. He didn't direct it, write it, or produce it. That still doesn't excuse him or the Holiday Special.
"we seek lame comic relief for our journey!" LOL!
I like Jar-Jar, since I kinda grew up with Phantom Menace. I think he and the Gun Gan battle were some of the best parts to this movie
No no, the Ewoks are more endearing and have more character than Jar Jar will EVER have.
The best part of the Episode 1 video game was that you could kill Jar Jar over and over again. It ended the game every time but so worth it.
@ConnorsCreations24 It's okay. The biggest highlight for the movie's release was how much CG they incorporated into the franchise; so I was more impressed/distracted by THAT rather than the characters.
Agreed. Plus, Warwick Davis played Wicket in Return of the Jedi.
@JamesOhGoodie We don't know that. There was a 20-year gap between Episodes 3 and 4, which is plenty of time for Jar Jar to have died an agonizing death off-screen.
6:09 Jar Jar just completely misinterpreted and sabotaged Padme's entire campaign in the Senate. Well, that's what happens when you leave Jar Jar in charge! A vicious intergalactic war breaks out.
"Look, go to hell!"
I will say this: At the very least, Lucas made him the reason the Clone Wars start, giving everyone a little more reason to hate him.
@SchweitzerMan it comes from the extras Episode one. You can also hear it on the Red Letter Media review for TPM, which if you haven't seen yet, then your life is empty.
Yeah. I love Redlettermedia. Though it takes them along time to make a review. But sometimes, it is worth it.
well at least the Ewoks tried to end the movie quicker by eating the lead character. I give them props for that.
"Meesa no get to talk anymore!"
I do like Lucas' choice of role for Jar Jar in Attack of the Clones. Why? Because if you're actually managing to follow what's going on, it turns out that by extension Jar Jar is ENTIRELY responsible for the rise of the Empire.
Rifftrax, even you guys couldn't save this movie. I tried to laugh but only remembered that I actually paid money I will never see again to have watched this disaster at the theater.