Product: The Hobbit [VHS] (1977)
Rating: 1.0
Stick to the Book
While it is difficult to transpose succesfully most books to film, this version fails completely on at least three counts. First, this rendition fails to capture the richness of Tolkien's images a with the use of 2-D animation and pale, washed out colors.Second, the interjection of songs that are sophomoric belies the scope of the potnetial audience and misses the essence of the characters.Third, stick to the story, why do movies change the plot whether it be Dune or Harry Potter?Separelty, The Lord of the Rings is often erroneously called a trilogy, when it is in fact a single novel, consisting of six books plus appendices, someime published in three volumes. The Hobit was written in 1937. Giving into a desire for more information about hobbits The Lord of the Rings was written in inervals between 1936 to 1949.Read the book, it much better.