EXCELLENT but...

Rating: 10/10 (21 December 2002)

tiny SPOILERS
I have to admit that I was VERY worried that TTT wouldn't be just as good as FOTR, but just as the film started, and Gandalf went down with the Balrog, I was thinking "aaah, that looks so fake", but WAIT! Ten seconds later, there is a shot where you see the Balrog and Gandalf ready to fall into the water, you see it from far away. It's in slow motion, and with the music and all, I just got shivers ALL DOWN MY BACK, and I was thinking "aaah, it's ok, nothing to be worried about". The beginning is abit slow, but as soon as Gandalf comes back (as Gandalf the White), the story follows on nicely.
Not only that, but Gollum is GREAT! I know you've probably heard this before, so did I, but I wasn't expecting a computer-animated character to be THAT GOOD! There's this part where he starts arguing with himself and the whole cinema was cracking up! I had tears because it was so funny! After a good 3 minutes of this, you pass to another seen where he starts arguing with Sam and that's just HILARIOUS!!! As well as the little jokes between Gimli and the Elf, to tell you the truth, this film is REALLY FUNNY!
Frodo and Sam are so cute together (sorry about that, it has to be said), and Gollum - or Sméagol - is really sweet most of the time, saving Frodo and all... The Ents are fun because they're so slow, you really get the feeling that they're magic folk. The actors are all wonderful...
BUT (da-da-dum), I'm really ashamed/sad/sorry to say that it isn't as good as the first. WAIT now before you start telling me I'm MAD, between yesterday and today (I saw the film yesterday), I've come to the conclusion that it's not because it's not as good it's because well, let me take you one year back: It's my sisters birthday and they all want to see FOTR and I'm going "No, let's go see Harry Potter" but in the end, we go to see FOTR. So I'm sitting all grumpy and all, and then you hear "I am prestar aen" woooooooosh, that sent gripped right through the stroy from start to end. I was crying and (yes) laughing and when I came out all I could think of was "FOTR FOTR FOTR, MORE MORE MORE!!!" I was so hyped because I'd never seen ANY movie like this, EVER! I watched it over and over (and over) again, and loved it even more. I know that TTT is as fantastic as FOTR, it's just that, since I'd seen something like that before (FOTR, duh), it didn't leave me with the same feeling as I did last year, and that makes me really, really depressed.
Still, to conclued, I give it 10/10, because it's just not fair to compare movies to others. Thanks for reading btw ;-)