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The Lord of the Rings (1978 Animated Movie) [Blu-ray]
February 15th, 2011 by Aldouspi

The Lord of the Rings (1978 Animated Movie) [Blu-ray]

  • Controversial animator Ralph Bakshi’s literal adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’sic fantasy trilogy, The Lord of the Rings, is brought to the screen. An evil sorcerer from a previous era created a magical ring which enables its users to call upon its tremendous powers to rule the world, but it inevitably warps them to evil. It was believed lost, but during a resurgence of magical evil in the world, Bil

Controversial animator Ralph Bakshi’s literal adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s classic fantasy trilogy, The Lord of the Rings, is brought to the screen. An evil sorcerer from a previous era created a magical ring which enables its users to call upon its tremendous powers to rule the world, but it inevitably warps them to evil. It was believed lost, but during a resurgence of magical evil in the world, Bilbo, a simple, plain-spoken hobbit, recovers it from its hiding place. The forces of good give

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  • Daniel V. Reilly writes:
    February 15th, 20117:16 pmat
    52 of 58 people found the following review helpful:
    3.0 out of 5 stars
    Interesting for fans; non-fans will be confused., December 24, 2001
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    Daniel V. Reilly (Upstate New York, United States) –
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    This review is from: The Lord of the Rings (DVD)

    When I was 7, my Aunt Bobby took me to see Ralph Bakshi’s animated Lord of the Rings at the Zigfield Theater in Manhattan. I will always remember sitting in that cavernous theater, watching the amazing story of Middle-Earth unfold, and just generally being amazed by the lushly colored animation on the gigantic screen. SO…..bear in mind as you read this that I will always have a soft spot in my heart for this much-maligned film.

    That was over 20 years ago, and I think I’ve seen this movie once since then, so when it was released on DVD I eagerly snapped it up. So how does it hold up to the childhood memories?
    Pretty good, actually.

    The story is basically the same as in the book: The Hobbit Frodo is joined by eight companions in a quest to destroy the evil Ring of Sauron. The characters and locales look pretty much as one would imagine from reading the books. (This movie adapts The Fellowship of the Ring & half of The Two Towers.) I had a problem with Strider and Boromir trudging through feet of snow in nothing but their little dresses, though…..bundle up, guys!
    The scenery is by turns lush (The Shire), and forbidding (The excellent Mines of Moria sequence). The problems were pretty much all the same: Bakshi’s use of “Rotoscoping”, or filming real actors and drawing over them. The rotoscoped portions just don’t fit with the rest of the movie, and it can be QUITE jarring to look at. (Check out how all of the Orcs seem to have just 2 kinds of faces…..couldn’t they at least have made different masks to film the Orc actors in????) Also troubling (in a very minor way…) was how “Saruman” was pronounced “Aruman” about half the time. People who aren’t familiar with the story will find that confusing; people who ARE will find it more and more irritating each time it happens……and it happens A LOT. The film also ends a little too abruptly; I remember being bothered by that as a kid. (It still bothers me!)

    On the plus side, the DVD looks great; the colors are perfect, and the sound is great. It’s too bad there aren’t more extras: all there is are a few text features. (Not even a trailer!)

    Overall, not as good as the new film adaptation, but worth a look for Tolkien fans.

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  • Matt Howe "outloud98" writes:
    February 15th, 20117:38 pmat
    14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
    3.0 out of 5 stars
    Bakshi Version: Not All That Bad; Not All That Good, November 23, 2001
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    Matt Howe “outloud98” (Washington, DC) –
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    This review is from: The Lord of the Rings (DVD)

    I was a LORD OF THE RINGS fan before the movie came out. I read it when I was in 6th grade. My friend Ralph and I would talk about the chapter we were on during soccer practice (“Last night I got to the part where Frodo stabs the cave troll in the foot…”). When Ralph Bakshi’s film came out I was very excited to see it. I bought a few of the action figures as well as some coloring books and a fotonovel. I liked the film! I was in 6th grade, though …

    I just got the DVD version of Bakshi’s LORD OF THE RINGS and am glad that it is shown in its widescreen ratio. The film, after all these years, looks good and is entertaining for about an hour. The second half is dark and hard to follow and incomplete. Bakshi seemed to concentrate on the battles. There is a lot of screen time spent on seeing humans confront then kill orcs. Bakshi pushes the limits of his rotoscoping technique, but in the end it still looks like cheaply costumed extras that have been traced and animated. The orcs look fake with their rubber faces and burlap-sack clothes. Some of Tolkien’s story points are not covered or skipped (i.e. the gifts that Galadriel gives to the Fellowship).

    The best thing about Bakshi’s RINGS movie is the voice casting. The characters sound like I imagined them to sound. The character designs are pretty good as well, although Aragorn and Boromir look too “Viking-like” for my tastes. Bakshi has been fairly true to Tolkien’s descriptions, though.

    It is unfortunate that the film ends with the battle of Helms Deep. I have read interviews that seem to say that Bakshi ran out of money. Therefore,the ending isn’t really a planned stopping point in the story: more like Bakshi simply ran out of money and had to stop there.

    THE LORD OF THE RINGS (Bakshi version) is not a terrible film. It has some really good moments. And Bakshi’s animation experiments are to be commended. However, it’s not all that great either and suffers in its story telling and entertainment value.

    Here’s hoping that Peter Jackson’s RINGS trilogy gets it right!

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  • Anonymous writes:
    February 15th, 20117:49 pmat
    14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
    4.0 out of 5 stars
    Bakshi’s Best Work, August 11, 2001
    By A Customer
    This review is from: The Lord of the Rings (DVD)

    Given the other animated works of Ralph Bakshi, he seems a fairly unlikely candidate as director of the first film version of “The Lord of the Rings.” “Fire and Ice” and “Wizards,” for example, are heavy-handed, crude, and sexually frustrated – and that’s not even touching down on some of his OTHER work. And yet, almost surprisingly, his vision of Tolkien’s epic is possessed of the spirit of the books around which it is based.

    The voice-overs are all spectacular, and the rotoscoped animation gives the characters a life that animation seldom possesses – though there are those who would argue that point, most assuredly. The animation is also suitably dark and grim, though this also translates into a visual problem, for even places that SHOULD look fair and beautiful – such as Rivendell or Lothlorien – tend to be almost gloomy and ominous. When the Fellowship enters the dark halls of Moria, however, Bakshi is in top form.

    This adaptation attempts to make a single film out of “The Fellowship of the Ring” and over half of “The Two Towers,” which is obviously a mistake. Because of this, there are several changes to the story that we Tolkien zealots so adore, and sometimes beloved moments are lopped out entirely. This happens most in the beginning of the film when the hobbits are on the road and making toward Bree. There is no Tom Bombadil and no fog on the Barrow Downs here (nor will there be in the upcoming Peter Jackson film, alas!). And just when you expect to see the battle with Shelob, the movie ends most abruptly without completing the narrative. A pity.

    Still, Bakshi does manage to deliver a good (if not excellent), well-animated, well-acted film version of fantasy’s most beloved classic. It is far superior to the Rankin-Bass productions of “The Hobbit” and “The Return of the King,” even at its worst. Fans of the series will probably either love it or hate it. I myself cannot wait for the DVD…

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