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The Lord of the Rings
This animated film which tells the tale of young hobbit, Frodo, with a magical ring. dark forces are after Frodo. Accompanied by his hobbit friends, he must leave his peaceful home and travel to Mount Doom, where the ring must be destroyed.
8 January 1938, London, England, UK
1954
23 February 1939, Chicago, Illinois, USA
18 September 1946, Hyannis, Massachusetts, USA
7 November 1938, New Jersey, USA
24 January 1920, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
9 May 1914, Chicago, Illinois, USA
17 October 1936, London, England, UK
11 December 1949, USA
26 January 1924, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
1953
14 February 1907, West Virginia, USA
26 June 1943
16 August 1943, Seattle, Washington, USA
25 February 1931, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
12 February 1934, Gorebridge, Midlothian, Scotland, UK
3 December 1952, Chiswick, London, England, UK
21 January 1948, Houston, Texas, USA
December 03, 2012
Innovative and beautiful, cheesy and disjointed.
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.
October 23, 2004
Falls far short of the charm and sweep of the original story.
August 03, 2010
Animated adventure too dated and dark for younger kids.
December 03, 2012
Tolkien fans, who are familiar with novels, will find it enjoyble, while others may be confused by the action.
October 14, 2011
A contemporary viewing of The Lord of the Rings is an exercise in outlandishness as well as nostalgia: dreamlike, peculiar.
July 07, 2010
Quite simply, those who do not know the characters of Middle Earth going in will not know them coming out.
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.
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
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.
May 09, 2005
The film is visually compelling even when murk overtakes the narrative.