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Although it was ultimately overshadowed by Peter Jackson's live-action Lord of the Rings trilogy, Ralph Bakshi's animated adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy classic is not without charms ...( read more 
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MCT:August 26, 2008has too be better than peter jacksons because it ends!!!!! and there anit a 10 disc version peter jackson is a fat cat roger never mind a knock off nigel!!!
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MCT:August 2, 2008I remember seeing this film when it was released back in mid-to-late 70's. There were some good parts, and there were some very bad parts. I hated the rotoscoped images which simply looked like live film dyed or tinted with wash or paint effects. It was very ambitious for its time, and so that's why I give it 2 1/2 stars rather than just 2. I agree with some people here that the Rankin & Bass versions of the Tolkien books during the 70s were much better than this film.
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MCT:July 29, 2008
Pretty good, but the end was way rushed. I won't even go into the fact that given the title, it avoided the third and final book entirely.
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MCT:July 27, 2008Long before Peter Jackson's now famous trilogy graced the silver screen, there were several animated adaptations of J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy, one of which was this production by Ralph Bakshi. Of the three, Bakshi's version is the weakest, and an absolutely disastrous insult to Tolkien fans. The primary problem is that the film tries to squeeze the first two books in the trilogy into a two-hour production; in doing so, it sacrifices a great deal of the depth and complexity that made the originals so appealing in the first place. More unforgivable is the quality of the animation, which is not only dreadful, but it looks even worse when Bakshi attempts to use "rotoscoped" techniques on many of the action scenes. (Such visuals are also out of place with the actual animation, too.) The resulting movie comes across as a jumbled, confusing mishmash that not only alienates the audience, but even stops before it actually finishes (due to money issues). To its benefit, this RINGS does have a powerful score by the late Leonard Rosenman and some decent voice work from actors such as John Hurt as Aragon. However, the aforementioned weaknesses overshadow them by far. Avoid this messy travesty at all costs and stick with Peter Jackson's trilogy--it may not be more "literal" in terms of the dialogue (another sole saving grace of the film), but they are miles better.
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MCT:July 26, 2008somewhere in between the animated version of The Hobbit, and the first two LOTR films that Jackson did. it's decent, and there are some cool visual effects, but it definitely gets lost in the Two Towers section of the film.
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MCT:July 25, 2008
An interesting movie - particularly if you're a Tolkien fan. In a lot of respects it is more loyal to the books than Peter Jackson's trilogy, although there are still huge chunks of the story cut out. It's also clear that Peter Jackson saw this film before beginning shooting the books - the scene where the hobbits hide from the ring wraith under the tree roots was pretty much lifted straight from the animation, as was the ring wraiths' visit to the inn at Bree. Some of the dialogue was well written and the animation was interesting (although a weird combination of traditional techniques and rotoscope). That said, some of the action sequences are drawn out too long and are badly paced and it's obvious they didn't have much time to think through how the whole thing was going to be wrapped up.
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MCT:July 16, 2008I didn't know there was a LOTR before Peter Jackson's. I would like to see the similarities and differences between the two.
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MCT:July 9, 2008
This cartoon adaptation of the Tolkein universe takes off during The Hobbit and condenses the whole thing into a short package, missing something in translation. It was 1978. Very ambitious for the time.
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MCT:June 21, 2008
this was a really bad movie it was so gay the director messed a lot of part the balrog was hilariuos although pippin and frodo were cute
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MCT:June 13, 2008
Bakshi's Lord of the Rings is almost inexplicable. The animation is nightmarish, which would be good if it was just the scary scenes, but it's *all* like that. The characters look awful and over-act constantly. The plot leaps along missing out reams of important stuff, so you'd better be familiar with the story already. It basically makes no sense, and then cuts out after the second book because they ran out of money. An acid trip, guaranteed to bring a few unintentional laughs, but nothing to recommend.
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MCT:June 6, 2008
i have this animatedversion and find it very good, it needs to be remebered that when this was mad animation was not as good as it is today. Also easy to follow and intersting perspective on the book.
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MCT:June 3, 2008
I didn't even know that this film excisted!!!! And to know that Tim Burton was a cell painter in this film makes me want to se it.
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MCT:June 2, 2008
A great adaptation of the book(s). More to the story than Peter Jacksons film. Identifying with characters is the hard part, being animated and all, otherwise woth the time.
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MCT:May 24, 2008
,,twas good!! orlando and so young (should i say that?) nyway, i liked it!! and elijah wood is cute (not now!!).
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MCT:May 23, 2008
I remember watching this as a small child and being terrified in the scene where Frodo and company hide under a bridge to escape the cloaked "bad guys". It made a much bigger impact on my young mind than the scene in Bambi where his mother gets stuck on the other side of the wall of flames.... hectic stuff to show kids!
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MCT:April 29, 2008
what a pity it hasn't been completed...
...however it's a very close and realistic transposition of Tolkien's famous story. You must see it, it can't compete with the Jackson's trulogy, but it deserves to be watched. -
MCT:April 23, 2008This is the most horrible version of Lord of the Rings ever! My cousin watched this because it was animated and had nightmares for a week:(
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MCT:April 21, 2008
Yes, an old movie but really when you think about what happened this one proved to be informant about what J.R.R Tolkien wrote.
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MCT:April 9, 2008
I have the Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Return of the king. All 3 anime from the late '70's
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MCT:April 6, 2008
THIS ANIMATED VERSION FROM 1978 SAW A VERY DARK INTERPRETATION OF THE RING'S. ANIMATION IS DATED BY MODERN STANDARDS BUT STILL AN INTERESTING INTERPRETATION.
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MCT:April 5, 2008
The animation is nicely done with the exception of a few characters and those are Merry and Pippin who look more like twins, Sam is very grotesque, Boromir is too much like a viking, Gimli resembles more like Grumpy the dwarf, and Elrond has a Julius Caesar look to him. Rankin and Bass do a much better job animating Gandalf, Bilbo, and Gollum in the Hobbit and ROTK because the charactrs either look they are overdone, uninspired, or just plain weird to connect with. And don't get me started with the orcs and the Balrog they just look like monsters leftover from a cheap B-movie. The only characters I did like were Frodo, Aragorn, and Galadriel because they match Tolkien's vision.
The fiirst part of The Fellowship of the Ring is an excellent adaptation. However when Frodo and Sam sail off to Mordor I think that's when the director began to either feel the budget constraints or start feeling befuddled by the story otherwise he shouls've cut to the credits. The first half of the Two Towers is long and confusing especially when Eomer and the Rohirrim battle the orcs. This part you can skip it is very convoluted. Also when Merry and Pippin meet Treebeard it is only a snippet long and soon afterwards Treebeard takes the Hobbits literally out of the picture, and no one bother to ask where they have gone or have any concern! The scenes with Frodo, Sam, and Gollum are good but could've been extended a bit especially with scenes of the Dead Marshes and Shelob but instead we are left hanging as Gollum treacherously lead the hobbits to the stairs of Cirith Ungol (never meeting Shelob which is a shame because I wanted to see how Bakshi would interpret the great spider.) The less said about helm's deep the better. All in all this could've been a better movie if Bakshi had the budget and knew how to story in a fruitful and fulfilling manner instead of making it laughable B-movie from the 1950s which it is.
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soccerfreak145posted 93 days ago -
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I thought there were elements of it that were better than Peter Jackson's. And I'm probably the only one too. Some of the scenes in Peter Jackson's movie were obviously taken from this one.
When I read Lord of the Rings I don't think of anything all that earth-like really. You'd probably have to animate every single thing to get what was in Tolkien's head onto the screen. This came closer to that in a few ways. The hobbits were definitely fags though, even gayer than Peter Jackson's hobbits. But at least this one didn't have all those cheesy emotional and love scenes that Jackson's had. If you read the books you won't get the impression that Tolkien would want that kind of crap in a movie. I've always imagined it to be darker than Peter Jackson's interpretation.posted 438 days ago -
I like this one because when I was a child I've seen it and it made me more interested in the triology (great) by peter j, and it gave me an appreciation to the concluded triology!
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this is the original animation lord of the rings, whenit first came out in the late seventies it was great. The biggest problem with the film it was never finished the first two books where covered in the film but not all of the last as i recall.But anyone into Tolkien then it is still worth watching
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umm i think that some of the people who reviewed it above have confused it for Peter Jackson's live-action version lol
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I love the Lord of the Rings. (The books and Peter Jackson's films that is) So I think that I should watch this. It might not be any good, from what I have seen on this page from some, but others claim to have liked it.
I have never seen it at a video store or anything. I'll make it a goal in my life to find it and watch it some time.posted 662 days ago
