Serious appeal

Rating: Null/10 (7 November 2002)

I have only two things to say about this film.
1) It is the only fantasy genre film ever to bring tears to my eyes (3 times - death of Gandalf, death of Boromir, Sam catching up with Frodo). It has actual emotional depth IN ADDITION TO pretty computer graphics.
2) My mum bought the video so that my nephew could watch it when he went round there. She had never so much as looked at the book (even though there had been a copy in our house throughout the years I was growing up). It is now her favourite film, and she has finally read the book - because she couldn't wait to find out what happened to all the characters.
If a fantasy film can make a grown man cry, and become the favourite film of a grandmother in her fifties - it must be doing something right.