"FOTR" Is Definitely Worth Seeing

Rating: Null/10 (1 March 2002)

I'm very lucky I got to see "Fellowship of the Ring" because it is a definite must-see. Elijah Wood gives Frodo Baggins a unique combination of naivete and idealism (naivity because he doesn't realize the Ring his uncle Bilbo left to him isn't merely dangerous but corrosive and potentially lethal and idealism because he carries a can-do mentality). I could not stop laughing when Merry (Dominic Monaghan) and Pippin
(Billy Boyd) almost made a complete mess of the Shire with a heavy firework display. I wasn't as interested in the sequences where Frodo uses the Ring to disappear because it felt like a jump cut that doesn't give the viewer enough time to see what just happened. Cate Blanchett's portrayal of Galadriel was at once etherial and mystical. I definitely recommend this movie.