C3PX said:
Like Gaffer, I would have laughed if Jango's head had fallen out. So I definitely don't think it would have helped the film (though it couldn't have made it any worse, the film is already superlatively awful). I also think it would have added more to the identity crisis the prequels seemed to have, fart jokes galore, then a man get chopped in half, frolicking in flowers and riding giant ticks, then killing an entire village of people including the women and children, and one films later the main protagonist slays a bunch of innocent children who look up to him and think he has come to save them.

I don't think we need to add a small child dumping his father's severed head out of a helmet to the mix. The idea of a kid holding his dad's severed head is kind of disturbing enough; the idea of that scene was that he was holding his father's helmet (I always assumed the head fell out during the rolling) and staring into it forshaddowing that he would take up his father's mantel and become a bounty hunter like his father.

It was a stupid moment and I think it would have been greatly improved by a bit of harsh realism. Come on, wouldn't it have been fun? That stupid annoying kid picks up the helmet because he's going to look solemnly at it in a "meaningful" scene, and out pops the head (which we'd have had every good reason to expect was still in the helmet).

When he picked up the helmet and the head didn't fall out I went "Huh? Where's the head? Oh, god this is some more silly Lucas moralistic kiddifying castration." I recognized immediately that not having the head there when we'd good reason to expect it to be there was part of the same sort of shit as making Han shoot second. And it's pretty weird, because he does this stuff alongside having Darth Maul chopped in two and having hands and heads chopped off.

It seemed like such silly unrealistic censorship to not have that head fall out. It was really conspicuous.

Yes we would have laughed if Jango's head had fallen out. And why would that be a bad thing? The least we could get out of that awful film would be a laugh. Though I suppose you could also get a laugh from Anakin and Padme's romance, if you could keep your lunch down.

And I think it's idiotic the way censors want to stop little kids seeing things like this. I was pretty small when I first saw ESB and Luke getting his hand chopped off was pretty intense, but it didn't do me any harm. To this day I still relish the strong genuine emotional response I got. I loved that bit and I still do. Seeing Jango's head fall out would have done no harm to the kiddies and some of them might have loved it.

It would also have been a good kick in the balls to Jango, who was a really annoying character.