A Masterpiece---for Trolls

Rating: Null/10 (9 January 2004)

Unbelievably dull and tedious. A movie for those who like watching trolls run around frantically for three hours. Only of interest if you possess the stunted sensibility of a troll or haven't developed beyond an infantile sensibility. Worst of all is how one feels like this has all been done before, endlessly, over and over in other movies; most of them not much better or worse than this drek. When that hack Lucas ripped off the Tolkein books in so many ways, he began this tired treadmill of effects-driven troll movies devouring themselves endlessly. When will it ever end. The fact that this empty-headed eye-candy is so popular speaks volumes about the stunted, easily-amused state of a vast cross-section of current society; forever in arrested development; sucking down whatever weak green media-hyped pablum is fed them.