Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

Excessively ornate or complex: turgid prose

Into our turgid lives comes a turgid movie. The Phantom Menace is an excessively complex mélange of STUFF.

Remember that scene from the old Dennis the Menace TV show where Dennis wins a contest and is given the chance to spend one minute alone in a store? Whatever he can take out of the store in that minute is his to keep. He races through the store aisles, throwing everything he can into a hammock. Just as the timer goes off, he pushes the hammock - filled to bursting with toys and STUFF - out the door. George Lucas had ....