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Lord Of The Rings, The: The Fellowship Of The Ring Details

2001 Certificate PG
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Set in Middle-Earth many many years ago, this is the story of a young Hobbit named Frodo, who has in his possession a ring... This ring is needed by the evil Lord Sauron to destroy civilisation and plunge the world into complete darkness. In order to prevent this, Frodo must find a way to the Mount of Doom and destroy the ring. .. Read more

Starring Sean Astin, Sean Bean, Cate Blanchett, Orlando Bloom
Director Peter Jackson
Genres Action/Adventure, Sci-Fi/Fantasy

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Lord Of The Rings, The: The Fellowship Of The Ring

Set in Middle-Earth many many years ago, this is the story of a young Hobbit named Frodo, who has in his possession a ring... This ring is needed by the evil Lord Sauron to destroy civilisation and plunge the world into complete darkness. In order to prevent this, Frodo must find a way to the Mount of Doom and destroy the ring.

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Starring Sean Astin, Sean Bean, Cate Blanchett, Orlando Bloom, Billy Boyd, Ian Holm, Ian McKellen, Elijah Wood, Viggo Mortensen
Director Peter Jackson
Studio ENTERTAINMENT IN VIDEO
Run time DVD: 2 hrs 51 mins
Certificate Certificate PG
Collections 100 Big Adventures, 100 must-see movies
Genres Action/Adventure, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Language DVD: English
Subtitles DVD: English
Released DVD: 06 Aug 2002
Production year: 2001
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  • 28 out of 39 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 5 stars

    Flawless

    It's 3 hours long but never drags. It's about hobbits, elves, dwarves and wizards but feels like an epic drama. It's the first part of a trilogy but works perfectly as a complete film. It's TOO GOOD!

    I've only met one person who didn't like this film, and they were weird. On whatever level you choose to examine it, it can't really be faulted; Acting, Screenplay, Direction, Effects, big budget blockbuster or intelligent literary adaptation, there's nothing wrong with it. You've probably already seen it, so I don't really know why i'm adding a review, and i'm not saying anything original... but if, by some freak chance, you've NOT watched this yet, get it now!

    The DVD is great, too, as they've chucked about a million extras at it, most of which involves all of the main people from the film (Jackson, McKellan, Wood etc).

      • A customer from Magical Kent
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  • 4 out of 5 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 2 stars

    Don't believe the hype!

    Although verging on the geeky and anorakish, I don't have much quarrel with the book series on which this film is based as they captured my imagination as a kid. But that's the difference - like Harry Potter this story is best left to the kids. I found this film pedantic in detail, mawkish, sentimental, simplistic, and overly long – so much so that I fast forwarded through several scenes without losing anything. All of these things but the length panders to American mindsets/Homer Simpson IQs. There was an animated film of LOR that I saw in my teens which totally outdoes this if we’re talking about special effects and character studies – and come on, these days it’s so easy with that CGI stuff. What’s harder to do is for actors to act – McKellan and Lee being old hands cruise through without breaking a sweat, while many of the others play with bland middle-of-the-road characterization (Blanchett, Tyler, Bean, Holm) – wet and limp like soggy old veg. Boring, unremarkable, overly-long and over-blown.

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72,066 Member ratings
  • 100
23,228
  • 90
12,141
  • 80
14,358
  • 70
7,929
  • 60
5,261
  • 50
3,009
  • 40
1,835
  • 30
1,553
  • 20
1,740
  • 10
1,012

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