Save your money .. and your backside!

Rating: Null/10 (25 December 2001)

Well, I'd read "The Hobbit", and "LoTR", like most I guess. I found this movie a dreadful adaptation. Beyond the many just plain WRONG things that never occurred in the book, after the first 45 minutes or so, it was just plain boring. You know a movie is boring when you find your backside becoming uncomfortable in a seat. The pace, after the 1st 45 min. is pedantic .. plodding ... insufferable. The haphazard melange of characters almost invites one to need a "program" so that they know "who is who" .. Woe to you who've not read the book prior to seeing this colossal waste of celluloid (and computer clock cycles, in the case of the CGI).
On a positive note, the scenery was nice. But, I could go to any nearby State Park and be just as enthralled .. for free.
Bottom line .. I think you'd be more entertained by seeing "Johnny Neutron".. or, dare I say it ... "Shallow Hal" (shudder!).
Sorry LoTR fans .. this one gets two big thumbs down .. as well as all my toes.