Phantom Menace is a bad kid’s movie, made much worse because it has the single most ridiculous and obnoxious character in movie history. If you took out one thing–Jar Jar–it would just be a goofy kid’s film, nothing more.
There is not one single thing you could take out of Attack of the Clones though to make it improve to even bad. There is so much wrong with it at a conceptual and storytelling level, right to the acting and editing and everything else. It’s just a big steaming pile of ****. One of the worst movies ever made.