lightspeed2112 said:

Obi-Wan37, if you're really looking for an in-depth look at what's wrong with the prequel trilogy, check out the reviews at Red Letter Media.

http://redlettermedia.com/plinkett/star-wars/star-wars-episode-1-the-phantom-menace/

These reviews articulated what I always felt about what was wrong with these moves, but couldn't put into words. They're quite lengthy, but well worth it.

Those reviews are far too dark, and besides, whenever reviewers like that criticize the prequels, they never note anything positive about the films, and when they do, it's always along the lines of "sure, this was okay, but this was awful", when in truth the thing that was "okay" was actually awesome and the thing that was awful was actually just a small flaw. For example a prequel-hater might say, "sure the action was okay, but the acting was awful", when in truth the action was fantastic and the acting wasn't bad enough to outweigh the other positive things, like the very well-done tragedy and the great amount of Jedi and a look at how things were before Palpatine took over.