Wow!

Rating: 9/10 (21 December 2002)

This is one of the best films I have ever seen! It works on several levels, and hauls you through a whole wave of emotions in 3 hours (it may seem like a long time, but it is gone in a flash!). You'll laugh out loud, cry, cower in your seat, and be glued to your seat!
If you thought "The Fellowship of the Ring" was good, this far far surpasses it. Gollum is incredible. wow! He is just how you imagined him, and you forget that he is computer generated! The battle scenes were totally blistering and you feel like you have been through them yourself once you've watched them. I first though Peter Jackson had missed the whole "Gimli-Legolas" friendship, but in this film they make a brilliant comic double-act, and take over from Merry and Pippin as the comical members of the fellowship.
One gripe: Why oh why didn't they have Shelob????