Jar Jar Binks- Why is he so hated?

He's for kids, very young kids. I know that because I loved him when I watched Episode 1 for the first time as a 6 yr old.

in retrospect it was maybe a bit too much, especiallly for Fans who grew up with the OT.


But still Jar Jar is an incredible achievement by ILM.
Not 100% sure but I think it was the first mo-cap performance ever.

 

No sense in beating a dead horse, but...Jar jar is just annoying, plain and simple. Fart jokes, aren't funny to anyone over five years old. If it weren't for Jar Jar Episode I would have been far better. Think about it.
In every SW movie you have a comic relief. OT you had 3PO/R2, Yoda before reveling himself to Luke. They were annoying to the other characters, not the audience. Same with k2SO he was like an autistic droid, that annoyed the cast, but he had some funny lines. Jar Jar might have been appealing to very small children, but certainly not adults. It is a kid's movie after all, so I really don't bash him all that much.

 

If that's your opinion, you'd be surprised how very wrong you are.

 

I'll put it this way, if you like fart jokes Jar Jar is your guy. Its the absolute lowest form of comedy. It doesn't take a lot of talent to write Jar Jars dialogue.

 

If you like his humor that's fine, but a lot of people don't and that's the problem he has. He's not funny. If you don't like his humor he is just annoying, that isn't good for a main character. I'm not sure what the confusion is, it's been expressed intensely for almost 20 years now. The kids who liked him are now adults, so popular opinion might be different. For me he ruined ep.1, just for being high pitched annoying main character.
Going back to 3po, whenever he started getting really annoying, one of the other characters would shut him up or shut him down. That in itself was funny. Jar jar never shuts up, ever, and it gets to be too much.

 

I'm not saying I, or many adults laughed at Jar Jar's fart jokes, but to claim that no adults find fart jokes funny is a most ridiculous statement because it's disproven on a daily basis.

Also, even by awkwardly laughing at his fart jokes in disappointment, Lucas has still emerged victorious.

 

In the long run it didn't work out for Lucas. There was such criticism he stopped making Star Wars movies. Mostly becase of Jar Jar. So he sold out for a measly 4 Bill. Disney probably has made that much already.

 

After rewatching Episode I yesterday I think they are two main reasonswhy Jar-Jar doesn't work. The first one is the fact that he is basically the only source of comedy among the main cast. Everyone else is dead serious throughout the film this results in a character not being treated seriously. The second aspect is the type of humour that Jar-Jar represents. He is basically a space version of Goofy (long ears, clumsy walk, taller than everyone else) and like Goofy, his main source of comedy is through slapstick. The reason why slapstick isn't used that often in SW is because it strips the films away of some kind of gravitas that these films have. They are to be taken seriously because this gives them credibility in our eyes and makes us think that somewhere these stories could have taken place.

 

As an artist myself, my take is Lucas wanted to create a fun character for 12 year olds. He completely alienated the fans that grew up with Star Wars by concentrating on them. Its as foolish as saying only 12 year olds read comic books. Anyway, I like TPM, Jar Jar Binks didn't ruin the film for me, the end battle with his slapstick annoyed me a bit, but I like all the Star Wars films, some more then others, but on a whole I see all the films as one entire story.

 

i hate jar jar, but like the prequels tho. but just look at him, he is a completely disaster in everything he does. even if he does something good, he 9 out of 10 times didn't do it on purpose. for the people who don't really know who is his creater, they are kids. the most hated thing of star wars is a creation of 2 kids.... so if you didn't already hated him because of the things he does, youn can hate him on his design. pretty much everything you can judge someone on......

 

I basically ignored him - or maybe "overlooked" is a better word - when I initially saw the movie in the theater. However, over the years, yeah, i agree with most that he is annoying in TPM.

IMO he was poorly written/utilized in TPM. But I thought he was used pretty-well in The Clone Wars(series).

 

I hate nobody.

I forget about Jar Jar as soon as he isn't on the screen anymore.

 

Is Jar Jar why? No.
But he certainly gave things a large "push" in that direction

--- Double Post Merged, Jun 26, 2017, Original Post Date: Jun 26, 2017 ---

 

I never really got the hatred of Binks, honestly. I mean, I do understand that not everyone is going to like every character. That's a given with almost any book/movie/television series. I feel the same way many people do about Jar Jar about Han Solo in the OT. Not a fan whatsoever. I wouldn't say Jar Jar is a favorite of mine by any means, though I did enjoy them expanding his character through the Clone Wars show. He set the whole chain of events in motion, so maybe that's why people hate him so passionately. There is this character that they can not stand at all, who happens to be one of the most pivotal characters in the entire saga. I wasn't opposed to him as a child seeing the PT, but I didn't really enjoy his character much either until I got older (Given I'm only 22 now, but I digress.) I would've been more of a fan had they gone the Darth Jar Jar route, but I really dig the idea of him being this clumsy, innocent, clown of a character who really is a good person...who just so happens to thrust the galaxy into utter darkness. Him actually ending up as a street clown later in life in the current cannon is just a plus to me.