Big and Bloated...needed a good editor

Rating: 5/10 (27 December 2003)

If this movie had been edited to 2 1/2 hours it would have been a fine film. As it was.. The Return of the King was much too long, full of scenes that were much too long, redundant returns, and long and wistful glances over and over again. If this movie had been a pizza it would have been an extra-large anchovy, with hamburger, onion, garlic, sausage, mangoes, tomatoes, potatoes, strawberries, munster cheese, cheddar cheese, swiss cheese, apple slices, peaches, salmon and extra thick applications of oregano and pepper. In other words... too much and overdone. A great story, but poor execution, and the shame of it is.. there obviously were few if any budget constraints. A classic example of how less can indeed, be more..