Product: The Hobbit [VHS] (1977)
Rating: 2.0
Sticks to the plot, but horribly adapted, with worse music
Put quite simply- this adaption does not even come close to feeling like something from Tolkien. I'll admit, the animation isn't bad (although not really what I pictured when I first read the Hobbit), but if the creators felt they had to dumb down the dialouge as much as they did to appeal to a younger audience then they shouldn't have even bothered, and just let the book speak for itself. I can see where a five or six year old would enjoy this, and if it gets them into Tolkien, all the better I guess. But for anyone looking for a deep, faithful adaption of even the most simple book concerning Middle Earth- AVOID THIS MOVIE