Fresh on the heels of The Hobbit animated movie, we watched The Lord of the Rings- a 1978 film that combines the first two books of the trilogy (The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers) into one two-hour experience (the second novel gets only 45 minutes of screentime). Here, Bilbo passes his ring to Frodo, who then sets off with it (and an increasingly large fellowship) to destroy it in the fires of Mount Doom.
This set a very different tone from the previous animated movie. Rotoscoping was inconsistently used across a film that was a bizarre and dark experience. That said, it did clearly influence Peter Jackson's live-action trilogy. Some shots seemed almost stolen verbatim by the latter, so I give this animated work credit for influence, if nothing else.
Rating: C
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