The Lord of the Rings (1978)
Genre: Animation / Adventure
Duration: 132 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: Ralph Bakshi
Stars: Christopher Guard, John Hurt and William Squire
IMDb score:
6,2 (38.189)
Releasedate: 15 November 1978
The Lord of the Rings plot
"Fantasy...beyond your imagination"
A group of travelers of different races, with the help of a magical ring, tries to defeat the evil Sauron and his armies, who seek to rule all of Middle Earth. Based on "The Hobbit" and the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy by JRR Tolkien.
Actors and actresses
Frodo (voice)
Gandalf (voice)
Sam (voice)
Aragorn (voice)
Merry (voice)
Pippin (voice)
Bilbo (voice)
Boromir (voice)
Legolas (voice)
Gimli (voice)
Reviews & comments
Chainsaw
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- 8845 messages
- 3690 votes
There is much to criticize about Bakshi's Lord of the Rings, but quite a few interesting choices have been made in his film adaptation of Tolkien's well-known books. Story-wise, things don't go well, but certain choices about putting down characters or the atmosphere work quite effectively. Also in the animation itself, certain things look pretty lousy and laughable, but certain experimental shots on the other hand make for a lot of interesting scenes. And this dichotomy is also in the voice work, John Hurt is excellent as Aragorn, but Samwise has again become a ridiculous and annoying little man.
2.5 stars.
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baspls
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- 4118 messages
- 1673 votes
All in all a good movie. The poster(s) are really great. Leonard Rosenman's music is just heavily epic and way better than those new LOTR movies. Best Ralph Bakshi movie perhaps because it is the least mature and not erotic or racist like his other movies. The story on that it ends so very abruptly is great and you go through it much faster than the new LOTR movies. The backgrounds are very beautiful. The character animation is sometimes good too. But the facial animation is awful and not lip-sync at all. Some shots and scenes use a strange kind of technique that can turn live-action xerox-style animation. This technique is also in Heavy Metal and other adult cartoons and is mainly used for the Orcs. The effects are very clumsy. A bit similar in style to The Black Cauldron but it's much, much better in animation.
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Roger Thornhill
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- 6198 messages
- 2547 votes
I can't say that this is good at all: the story moves forward in jerky fashion, heroic characters like Aragorn and Boromir are uninterestingly designed, the half-live-half-animated scenes are technically ambitious but feel forced, and (my main criticism) the hobbits remind me of the characters from the horrible Dr Snuggles cartoon series. Any comparison with the Peter Jackson trilogy is therefore meaningless (although it is funny that this version also omits the encounters with Tom Bombadil and the Barrow-Wights), but once used to the shortcomings I do occasionally get carried away by the strong story, and it's nice to have these on the shelf and thus "keep" the collection "complete". Sometimes beautiful and atmospheric backgrounds, by the way.
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