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The Lord of the Rings
The movie is about an hobbit and his friends who joins forces with a wizard, some humans, a dwarf and an elf on a quest to destroy a powerful ring on Mount Doom and defeat the evil lord Sauron.
1941
1 March 1930, Los Angeles, California, USA
25 February 1931, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
20 May 1917, USA
18 September 1946, Hyannis, Massachusetts, USA
13 July 1930, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
21 January 1948, Houston, Texas, USA
August 03, 2010
Animated adventure too dated and dark for younger kids.
October 23, 2004
Falls far short of the charm and sweep of the original story.
December 03, 2012
It looked terrible then and it still does: cartoon characters move differently from live actors, and the attempt to duplicate natural movement ends in stylistic incoherence.
December 03, 2012
Innovative and beautiful, cheesy and disjointed.
February 09, 2006
Bakshi's version, using animation and live-action tracings, is uniformly excellent, sticking closely to the original text and visually echoing many of Tolkien's own drawings.
December 03, 2012
What most people remember is the mix of the live-action tracing within the traditional animation and just how effectively creepy it managed to be, but for the time this did a pretty good job of adapting the dense novels.
November 24, 2001
A showcase for inspired imagery and sheer strangeness, a near-miss magnum opus from another era, before the cult of Tolkien went Hollywood.
November 25, 2012
It's a reckless film, blitzing through some plot points and stalling out over others; the lack of a particular rhythm does not do it any favors, and it is certainly not a fast 133 minutes.
May 09, 2005
The film is visually compelling even when murk overtakes the narrative.
October 14, 2011
A contemporary viewing of The Lord of the Rings is an exercise in outlandishness as well as nostalgia: dreamlike, peculiar.
December 03, 2012
Tolkien fans, who are familiar with novels, will find it enjoyble, while others may be confused by the action.
July 07, 2010
Quite simply, those who do not know the characters of Middle Earth going in will not know them coming out.
