Better than the first, but just barely.

Rating: 6/10 (21 January 2003)

OK LOTR fans, sue me again, but this was better than the first, yet I still didn't like it. Like the first one, this was B-O-R-I-N-G. Yes there were battles and such, and yes they were well done--really well done, but the movie overall was boring, and I still didn't know what the hell was going on and who all these people are/were (I JUST got that Aragorn is the king as in the title of the next movie). CGI was fine except for the trees where you could almost see the outline of Merry and Pippin (I don't care if I spelled their names wrong). Gollum was absolutely fantastic and the voice actor deserves some sort of award for his acting job. Here's hoping the third one is a lot better than this one.