Come on, people, it was the end of the line!!!

Rating: 10/10 (23 February 2006)

Yes, it tests your bottom. Yes, it gets sentimental, boring, and weird, but how could you not enjoy this movie? (If you follow the movie law of averages, 60 bad minutes out of a 200-minute movie still equals a really good 140-minute movie). Truthfully, when I watch the DVD, I do skip through all those parts with Frodo, Sam, and Gollum (except in the tower of Cirith Ungol-- "Not if I stick you first!"). However, it was really stunning and it had an almost inspiring ethereal mist about it. Also, if you watch it on DVD for the first time, the extended version is definitely what you should start off on if you plan to go back and watch the original theatrical as well (they cut a few minor, but good, things out). To the point, this movie is certainly something Tolkien would have had positive things to say about. And isn't that why filmmakers turn books into movies in the first place?