Can't wait for the 3rd!

Rating: 10/10 (23 December 2002)

So I finally got to see The Two Towers and during the first half hour the pace slowed down, but it later picked up and got better by the minute.
Summary: The story continues with 3 different tales, Frodo and Sam journey alone towards Mordor to destroy the ring, but are lost. They finally catch the annoying Gollum, who has been after them since the Mines of Moria. I got so tired of Gollum, the annoying gibberish and screaming. His only mission is to get back the ring, but as the movie progresses we learn that Smeagol, Gollum's real name needs a shrink due to his split personality. Anyways, Smeagol decides to help them get to Mordor, but instead they run into Boromir's brother Faramir, who seems to have the same intentions as his dead brother.
On the other end, Pippin and Merry escape from the Uruk-Hai and end up in a forest, where they meet treebeard...who is a tree, that talks and walks....right...
And behind them are Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli, who take the path to Rohan to find Pip and Merry, but after Gandalf re-appears now as Gandalf the white they are sent to help the king of Rohan who is under Saruman's spell and the annoying Wormtongue, who has a schoolboy crush on the king's niece is there working undercover for Saruman, one look at him and you will know he is a bad guy. There, Aragorn meets the fine Éowyn, who is the niece of the king and a major tom-boy. Anyways, she falls for the elegant and charming Aragorn, let's face it, who wouldn't fall for him? But Aragorn's heart belongs to Arwen, the elf, whom he seems to have broken up with...whilst Arwen is forced to choose between her immortality and her love for Aragorn, the guy who dumped her.
Whilst Frodo is going under the spell of the ring, he fears he won't make it, Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli lead the refugees of Rohan to the great fortress of Helm's Deep aware that they have at least ten thousand Uruk-Hai heading their way for war, Merry and Pip are hanging around on trees literally, Middle Earth seems to have no hope left and all that, you can actually see in the trailer as well.
This movie is much darker than the one before, I even read the books, they took a whole to read, they are packed with each character singing and dancing through out all 3 books (no joke) and with the books you can't really visualize the surroundings of each character and scenery much, it's great to see that Peter Jackson's imagination really brings life into the characters and the whole story. There's also quite a bit missing from the books to the movie, but I guess that's to be expected.
In this movie the only person who had a comedy part was Gimli (John Rhys-Davis), a lot more Elvish is spoken in it between the characters and my favorite scene was when Gandalf rode out of the stables, that was great. There was a lot of hard work put into Helm's Deep and it was truly worth watching and as for Gollum, he seemed nice and innocent at times and that was cute. I do hope there will be an extended version of this movie and the cast are really breath taking in their roles.
I'm rating this 10/10. All Lord of the Rings fans will love it.