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.
18 February 1908, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
1 October 1931, Sierra Madre, California, USA
30 October 1924, Coalville, Leicestershire, England, UK
5 November 1918, London, England, UK
24 January 1920, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
21 February 1946, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK
13 July 1930, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
7 November 1938, New Jersey, USA
14 February 1907, West Virginia, USA
16 August 1943, Seattle, Washington, USA
December 03, 2012
Tolkien fans, who are familiar with novels, will find it enjoyble, while others may be confused by the action.
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.
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.
October 14, 2011
A contemporary viewing of The Lord of the Rings is an exercise in outlandishness as well as nostalgia: dreamlike, peculiar.
October 23, 2004
Falls far short of the charm and sweep of the original story.
July 07, 2010
Quite simply, those who do not know the characters of Middle Earth going in will not know them coming out.
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.
May 09, 2005
The film is visually compelling even when murk overtakes the narrative.
December 03, 2012
Innovative and beautiful, cheesy and disjointed.
August 03, 2010
Animated adventure too dated and dark for younger kids.
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.
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.
