even my stepmom liked it!!!

Rating: 10/10 (21 December 2001)

everything I could say has probably been mentioned by at least two or twelve others in the hundreds of comments listed in the past ***THREE*** days...Three days and this movie has almost 7,000 votes and 600 comments, I've been using IMDB for years now and I've never seen a phenomenon like this. Of course, you have to consider the subject of all this.
All I have to say is this: Peter Jackson kept to the heart of the book which is simply that no one knows what strength lies within until one is asked to step foward. To me this movie comes at a time when we all need to be reminded that even though Bad Things happen and exist, anyone can have the strength and courage to stand up to the challenge. Cliche? Simplistic? Yeah, well it also didn't have a jamacian amphibian or a toddler yelling "Yippie" throughout. This movie could well become a classic for the simple fact that it has no pop culture references to bog it up, producers should take this as a sign that a fantasy movie doesn't need big guns,a wayans(or some other comedic ploy) to have a successful fantasy film.Let the story do the work, don't try to sell it to a demographic, peter didn't. And you know what, it worked. People that didn't enjoy the books enjoyed the movie, people that don't like fantasy liked the movie, kids, their parents and their grandparents liked the movie.And why? Because all the direction was focused on the story rather than trying to make everyone happy. "Love, a laugh, and some bit with a dog...that's what people want" Obviously not. Thank you Peter Jackson for bringing dignity to a genre that greatly needed it. Hope you shake it up the next three years.