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STARRING: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Bean, Cate Blanchett DIRECTOR: Peter Jackson...
When he began the job of bringing J.R.R. Tolkien's much loved trilogy to the screen, New Zealand director Jackson may have felt like Frodo Baggins, the lowly Hobbit who assumes the task of taking the Ring of Power on a trek to save Middle Earth. But Jackson proves he is up to it. This first episode shows him well on his way to creating a film epic that nearly matches its source. Fellowship is not simply a sumptuous illustration of a favorite fable; though faithful in every detail to Tolkien, it has a vigorous life of its own--grandeur...
...adaptation of The Lord of the Rings is bound to have a gravity about the awful task at hand. Jackson's film has that, but it is also a buoyant experience because the characters are lively and engaging--each actor (especially Wood as Frodo and McKellen as the wizard Gandalf) magically fitting his role--and because the production team put such skill and joy into designing a movie Middle Earth. The landscapes, a cunning mixture of computer images and real New Zealand, bestow a distinct and beguiling personality on each realm...
...ever a "new" Berlin song were to hit the charts, it'd be this country-style waltz. Not much content to the lyric, but a rolling melody that instantly insinuates itself in the listener's mind; I believe that's why it's called a "hook." Paging Alan Jackson...
...Fellowship of the Ring It's a fantasy based on a famous series of novels ... a film of eye-popping grandeur and sumptuous production values ... and, unlike the recent Harry Potter event, it's a good movie too. In the first of a Tolkien film trilogy, director Peter Jackson lays out the Middle Earth adventure with epic brio. This solid, often stirring version stops just this side of enthrallment. But then, the grand journey has just begun...