This movie turned me into a blithering nerd - I love it!

Rating: 10/10 (23 December 2002)

This movie has a darker edge to it than last year's "Fellowship of the Ring" but is still worthy as a holiday movie for those of us with children, 11 or older. The psychological development for the character Gollum is both tragic and funny. If this part doesn't get a best-supporting nod at nomination time, something is really fishy in Hollywood! This character provides some light heartiness to this episode of the TLOR trilogy and I found myself actually rooting for this character at times. Make way for good to overcome evil yet again... This is a great movie and already I can not wait until "The Return of the King" next December! I'm anticipating that the attack by Shelob on Frodo & Samwise (that Gollum alludes to) will take place in the "Return of the King" episode despite this being a deviation from the book. But I guess that since Return is the shortest of the books that it was saved for that reason... If you haven't seen this movie, WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU WAITING FOR? GO NOW!!!