The Return of the King

The Bakshi film is bad, but at least interestingly so. This one is just awful all around.

This is one of the worst adaptations of all time. Sometimes it's unintentionally hilarious, sometimes it's just plain dull - 100% of the time it is a complete disservice to the great work of J.R.R. Tolkien. It's too bad, too, because the Rankin and Bass Hobbit movie is pretty good, and this goes more than a little ways towards tainting that movie's good name. It's amazing how much they missed the point with this one. Oh, and Glenn Yarbrough's vibrato could (and probably has) caused earthquakes.

"FRODOOO, OF THE NIIIINE FINGERS! AND THE RIIIING OF DOOOOM!"

Doesn't capture the feel of Tolkien at all, shoddy animation, and terrible songs.

(review sung with crazy vibrato) My score is based on the fact that I crack up during the bit where the image slowly zooms in on the young wide-eyed hobbit on the rocking horse.

Where there's a whip *woopishhhh* there's a way.

Rankin and Bass really dropped the ball with this hackneyed attempt at Tolkien.

Good clean fun, confused beginning though

That song the Goblins were singing was a bop.

I liked the Rankin-Bass HOBBIT well enough that I was willing to give this a shot. . . but no. RETURN OF THE KING is not THE HOBBIT and this studio was in no way up to the challenge of adapting it. This falls hard and heavy into the category of "Pretend it doesn't exist."