Elves at Helm's Deep?

Rating: 5/10 (18 December 2002)

I kept asking me during the entire movie what happened to Peter Jackson's way of adapting the Lord of the Rings? As good a job as he did with the first book as badly adapted is the second one! It exists barely one scene that is not in some way either extended or totally changed which gave me the strange feeling of watching something familiar that wasn't familiar at all. Why did he have to send elves to Helm's Deep and what happened to the Ents? And Arwen again, Jesus, Liv Tyler is beautiful, we know it by now but did she really have to have that amount of screen time (esp. since I don't remember her in part two of the book at all ...)? And why has Gimli changed to such an incapable fool? The very few good scenes don't make a good movie ...