You still haven’t seen the film, right? So I can keep ignoring you? This film was absolutely nothing like TPM. Many, MANY of us were critical walking out of TPM. The people you see gushing in the videos after the premiere were selected because of their reactions. And I’ll bet many of them (the adults at least, such as Kevin Smith) still love the prequels today.
Understand, I am not criticizing the acting, the direction, the cinematography, the special effects, the editing, the audio mix, or the score.
I’m criticizing the story. One does not need to see a movie to know and comprehend its story.
The people were selected because of their reactions? Well, sure. That, however, does not belie that TPM made $1.45 billion worldwide in 2015 dollars, more than “Frozen” did in 2013, which was and is a major phenomenon. Clearly people loved it. At the time.
I suspect you may be looking back and judging TPM with a set of “after-the-fact” eyeglasses.