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The album comes with a 60-page full color booklet - containing photos from the film. It's enjoyable and provides a nice 'trailer' overview of the film.

This is basically the music video (as seen last year) without the live-action sound effects (but with the fabricated sound effects). As a bonus, the 'dialogue version' of 'Duel of the Fates' is included. Additionally 'Desert Winds', an unused cue, is also included. There are two source cues also available on this album: 'Street Band of Mos Espa' and 'The Street Singer' (both from Disc 1). The 'End Credits' are the only places in the film where the 'Duel of the Fates' and 'Anakin's Theme' suites are fully heard - so it's a welcome inclusion on this album.

Still, the music is great to listen to, and the climactic space battle interwoven with the exciting lightsaber fight plays out very nicely. I didn't find it very distracting, however I did prefer some moments in the original 'suite-based' album over the versions here. However, this album contains the score as heard in the film - so the progression is more or less following the edits. As such, there are some slight loops and edits that would have been a bit out of place when played normally. Now, however, is where last minute editing required some finessing of the score after it had been recorded. There has been a lot of unreleased music heard until this part - and it seems to play rather smoothly. After things start to go the wrong way, the Queen decides to head back to Naboo - just in time to set up an alliance with the Gungans and fight a CGI-battle against the Trade Federation. Triumphant brass heralds their arrival where they are greeted by Senator Palpatine. Anakin is freed, and after a skirmish with Darth Maul, Qui-Gon has everyone set out for Coruscant. The second disc starts to get a bit darker. Dark percussion and whisper chanting (as well as the evil Emperor's Theme) accompany Darth Maul and Darth Sidious. Lush strings softly accompany Anakin's Theme. Harsh militaristic brass heralds the Trade Federations invasion of Naboo. Thematically, the score hits every genre.

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The first disc follows the adventures of Qui-Gon and Obi Wan as they battle the Trade Federation droids, meet Jar Jar, rescue Queen Amidala, head to Tatooine, meet Anakin Skywalker, and free him in an exciting pod-race. The resulting music is smooth and pleasurable to listen to.

Sound effects tend to be used to cover musical edits, and since we don't have sound effects on this album, additional massaging was probably in order. If this album were edited exactly as it was in the film, it would be choppy. Those people are probably upset that 2 measures of music are missing from a particular cue, and don't really have any idea as to how music gets edited to begin with. Some people out there might be upset that it's not every single note, or that it's edited more or less the same way that the score was edited in the film - but that's not anything to worry about. Containing over 120 minutes of music spanning two CDs, this album is filled with almost every bit of music in the film. So now comes the Star Wars: The Phantom Menace - The Ultimate Edition Soundtrack. Last month, they completed filming the next film in the prequel trilogy, and this month (for some reason) the original trilogy is being re-released on VHS (for the 200th time). A year and a half ago, moviegoers were finally able to see the new Star Wars film.

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