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Michael Baggins · 04-05-2002, 11:34 AM

Hollywood Video seems to rent them, and blockbuster not. I watched The Hobbit and TLTR. I thought The Hobbit was entertaining, but it was extremely rushed. They cut out way to much,and I didn't like the look of the characters, but the overall feel was entertaining. TLTR was great. The characters were perfect (the animated ones). I don't know why they used real actors in other parts. I didn't like that at all, and I thought the orcs, trolls, balgrog, basically anything they didn't animate sucked. This one was also really rushed, and they cut out a lot of great scenes. I was hoping that the cartoon version would have Tom Bombadil, but to no avail. I am going to watch TRTK tonight, but from the cover it looks like they revert to the animation of the Hobbit for that one, if so I have low expectations because the Dwarfs were weird looking, and so were the Hobbits. At least it's 1.5 hours, a more proper allotment of time than the 1 hour each the other books got. We'll see. If anyone else has seen any of the cartoons tell me what you thought of them.

04-05-2002, 11:34 AM	#5
Michael Baggins Pile O'Bones Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Brooklyn Posts: 12	Hollywood Video seems to rent them, and blockbuster not. I watched The Hobbit and TLTR. I thought The Hobbit was entertaining, but it was extremely rushed. They cut out way to much,and I didn't like the look of the characters, but the overall feel was entertaining. TLTR was great. The characters were perfect (the animated ones). I don't know why they used real actors in other parts. I didn't like that at all, and I thought the orcs, trolls, balgrog, basically anything they didn't animate sucked. This one was also really rushed, and they cut out a lot of great scenes. I was hoping that the cartoon version would have Tom Bombadil, but to no avail. I am going to watch TRTK tonight, but from the cover it looks like they revert to the animation of the Hobbit for that one, if so I have low expectations because the Dwarfs were weird looking, and so were the Hobbits. At least it's 1.5 hours, a more proper allotment of time than the 1 hour each the other books got. We'll see. If anyone else has seen any of the cartoons tell me what you thought of them.