The Most Overrated Film Ever?

Rating: Null/10 (11 August 2004)

I just don't get how people can honestly compare this to amazing films like The Godfather, Shawshank etc...
The film just staggers from one set piece to another. You spend too much time being amazed by the quality of the special effects to notice the HUGE gaps in the storyline. They were supposed to have been gone for a couple of years, but the films make it seem like it was a fortnight!
There have never been 2 more annoying characters than the other 2 Hobbits who leave Frodo and the fat one to go off with that grey thing in a nappy. Why are they Scottish when the rest of the Hobbits talk in an American accent? They live in a tiny place called 'The Shire' but all have different accents! Ridiculous.
The 'comedy' dwarf with a stick-on ginger beard? The bit where that elf with a mullet slides down the stairs on a shield whilst shooting Orks with a bow and arrow? The scene during that huge fight where the bearded wizard finds the time to sit down for a chat with the Scottish-for-no-reason hobbit? The bit where the King chucks the 'comedy' dwarf (LOTR's version of Jar Jar Binks) over the huge gap as he wont jump? Just how many completely ludicrous scenes like this can you cram in?
But that's my point. Most people where so blown away by the magnitude of the films to criticise it. I realize that these are based on some of the most popular books ever written, but they are books for kids and so is this film. Its like Harry Potter but slightly more acceptable for adults to go and see.
I very much doubt that films will be made on this scale again and for that I have every respect for Peter Jackson. It was a mammoth undertaking and he pulled it off with superb vision and panache. The only thing is, in trying to make it look like he wanted he let the special effects steal the show. Everything else seems to have taken second place.
I strongly encourage you to see this film though as it really is a spectacle to behold. Its one of the biggest feats of cinema ever and looks amazing. I just didn't enjoy it that much.