Product: The Hobbit [VHS] (1977)
Rating: 1.0
STAY AWAY !!!!!
This pertains to the peter pan industries, movies on parade version with the large illustration of Bilbo Baggins holding his pipe, DVD. The picture quality is so dark some scenes are blackened out or are so blurry one cannot make out the otherwise wonderful details of the film or what is happenig altogether. Including some scenes where the sun is shining. The film transfer also skips like an old dirty cd bouncing the viwer out of the experience and some scenes erroneously and annoyingly repeats itself in their beginnings again bouncing the viewer to and fro. The sound in general is sleightly muffled and some of the wonderful japanese style sound effects are ommited completley to the point where, aside from the musical score a blaz'in, some scenes are otherwise silent. Like the sound of Bilbo sheathing his sword where a satisfying clink! soud occures. Or when Bilbo cuts himself free from a web cacoon and slays some nasty creatures and further when the descedents of the men of dale loose their feathered shafts against the hide of the worm Smaug the sound effects are thus gone. In short I wouldn't give this to an enemy. The best version as of now in the shadow of the release of Peter Jackson's live action first installmet is still only on VHS.