"The Lord of the Rings" PG 13
Rather than make three pages of reviews for a long standing DVD series from 10 years ago, I thought it would be all right to just group all three together since I really didn't do proper reviews of them in the beginning anyway.
The series was impressive from the start, back in the early 2000s, the trilogy of the decade as it came to be called, and it set a new standard proving the this upstart New Zealand company could make something that surpasses Lucasfilm by leaps and bounds. They seemed the heirs to Henson's world, and ironically they had spoofed Henson in Meet the Feebles decades before. The story is based upon Tolkein's work, a much broader and more interesting story than his contemporary, the CS Lewis and his Narnia, of which then Disney wanted to make movies out of after tyhis took off. Even they could not do Narnia justice. Jackson did Tolkien justice on every level.
The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring -
PG-13
Peter Jackson begins this grand trilogy of Tolkein's world
with this exciting Middle Earth coming-of-age story, where Frodo Baggins must
join forces with a ragged band to save the planet and bring the One Ring to its
end.
Peter Jackson
begins this grand trilogy of Tolkein's world with this exciting Middle Earth
coming-of-age story, where Frodo Baggins must join forces with a ragged band to
save the planet and bring the One Ring to its end.
It is a long movie, but all 3 are quite long, and yet as a fantasy adventure one is never bored. The characters and pacing nicely fit in with humor and pitch battles, bright spots and gloom and doom. It's a visually awesome thing. The settings are clearly not Tolkien's obvious Europe, but New Zealand, and yet you get into it and this doesn't bother you in the slightest.
The Lord of the Rings - The Two Towers - PG-13
The middle part in Tolkein's epic saga as told through Peter
Jackson's vision. The fellowship struggles to survive hordes of monster orcs
while the Ring leads Frodo and Sam to Gollum, the one who took it, and wants
his precious back.
The middle part in
Tolkein's epic saga as told through Peter Jackson's vision. The fellowship
struggles to survive hordes of monster orcs while the Ring leads Frodo and Sam
to Gollum, the one who took it, and wants his precious back.
The second is a little pondering but seems to get the story right, and even hints at stories from the books in addition to a few little extras. The story never gets dull and is extremely pretty and the characters well defined, even when speaking weird languages with subtitles.
The Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King - PG-13
The final installment in Peter Jackson's take on Tolkein
pits Forodo Sam and Gollum against the fires of Mt. Doom, and the forces og
Gandalf and Gimy and Aragorn against the main forces of villains for control of
Middle Earth. Incredible effects. Astounding visuals.
The final
installment in Peter Jackson's take on Tolkein pits Forodo Sam and Gollum
against the fires of Mt. Doom, and the forces og Gandalf and Gimy and Aragorn
against the main forces of villains for control of Middle Earth. Incredible
effects. Astounding visuals. The epic third act is 3 hours but feels like it should not end, as you are drawn into the quest for the castle and the retaking of the fortress, the final battle of the ring, and the awesome wonder of this epic. Truly a masterpiece.
From the Flixster files of 2006.
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