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Name: The Lord Of the Rings (1978)
Released: 1978-11-15
Cast: Christopher Guard, William Squire, John Hurt, Michael Sholes, Dominic Guard

The Lord Of the Rings (1978)

PG
2h 13m
1978

48%

From director Ralph Bakshi (Fire and Ice, Wizards) comes an ambitious animated version of the classic Tolkien tale about the Fellowship of the Ring embarking on a journey to destroy the One Ring and end the evil Sauron's reign over Middle Earth.

Director:

Ralph Bakshi

Producer:

Saul Zaentz

Writer:

Peter S. Beagle, Chris Conkling

Cast:

Christopher Guard, William Squire, John Hurt, Michael Sholes, Dominic Guard, Anthony Daniels

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

48%

Critics Consensus: Ralph Bakshi's valiant attempt at rendering Tolkein's magnum opus in rotoscope never lives up to the grandeur of its source material, with a compressed running time that flattens the sweeping story and experimental animation that is more bizarre than magical.

Reviews

The Blu Spot

Jeff Beck

While it is quite interesting to see an early attempt to bring this beloved classic to the screen, it simply has too many issues holding it back, primarily with its sloppy rotoscoping and the unbalanced nature of its adaptation.

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The Sun-Herald (Australia)

John Lapsley

Bakshi's 2.5 hour animation epic has been drowned by its inability to breathe any real identity into the Hobbits, Orcs, Wizards, and Elves, that Tolkien created. The result is an ordeal for the backside.

Sheer tedium from start to finish.

If it achieves nother more than causing those unfamiliar with the worlds of Tolkien to actually read the original books then it has not been a pointless exercise.

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El Pais (Spain)

Jesús Fernández Santos