Product: The Hobbit [VHS] (1977)
Rating: 5.0
A Tremendous Work
This video is definitely not just for kids! The animation is incredibly well done for the decade in which the film was made. Middle-Earth looks so much like I had imagined it when reading the Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. The voice acting is superb, and the music is very fitting. They may have taken some liberty with the story, but for the most part the movie is very accurate to the book. Two of the most vivid scenes from the book, Biblo's confrontations with Gollum and Smaug, are elaborated upon in the film. The film also deeply plays upon the angle of the story about Bilbo's simple life as a Hobbit, and displays the messages Tolkien wished his readers to understand, in depth.This is probably the most accurate to-the-book film based upon The Hobbit. I recommend it to all Tolkien fans. This film will take you to Middle-Earth, There and Back Again.