Bingowings said:

There is a bit of a problem with having the Gungans the Feds and most of the people on Tatooine speaking 'alien'.

The other Star Wars films only had a few subtitles with good reason, if you are reading subtitles you aren't looking at the picture.

It would make much better sense to dub most ofthe lines (or new ones) into more sober English without the ethnically worrying accents.

The only really problem is removing the existing lines and maintaining all the other parts of the soundscape.

That still is much more difficult than some people would have us believe.

You are of course correct on all counts.

Still......while changing Jar Jar's voice would certainly help.....i'm doubtful there's a voice actor on this earth who could deliver a line like "meesa called Jar Jar Binks!" and make it sound at all passable. It's admitedly a trade off.....but I ultimately will take the subtitles as the lesser of two evils.

Ideally, I'd actually like to remove Jar Jar entirely and be done with it, or maybe replace him with an entirely different character....but that's quite a tall order for a lone and/or small visual effects team.

The neimoidians are definitely better contenders for this though. Mostly it seems the effort to change their voices stems from desires to change plot points in the movie......which is not a bad goal necessarily. Considering the animatronics in the movie, it would be easier to get away with dubbing them over with english while still tweaking their dialouge. This is probably worth exploring by someone with the means to do it.

Also....as far as removing dialogue goes.....I don't mean to suggest it's easy peasy.....but isn't most of the dialogue in the center channel on the soundmix? Granted, there's a lot of new sound effects you'll need to remix in here and there........but it's not impossible............I think/hope.