ZkinandBonez said:
TFA of course knocks all the PT films out of the park, despite being full of CGI (maybe even more than TPM?), because, as you said, the characters are much more compelling and likable.

Hard to know for sure without real stats but I’d wager more or less the same amount, with TPM having more in-your-face unnecessary CGI stuff like Jar Jar (TFA had Maz and Snoke but they were only in a few scenes each where as Jar Jar is all over the place), the Planet Core sequence (TFA had the Rathtars but they were integrated into a practical set [and the scene was much shorter!]), and random CGI porn on Coruscant and the pod racer introductions. It’s funny because Lucas talks in From Star Wars to Jedi about how sci-fi directors always make the mistake of spending film time showing off the amazing sets and locations they’ve created just because they’ve spent a lot of time actually making them, but really they should be getting on with the story and letting the setting speak for itself. This mantra is definitely followed in the OT and TFA but not at all in the PT.