Here it is, folks. It is NOT the _Lord of the Rings_ I remember from college, it is the long lost World's Longest Episode of "He-Man".
I have to wonder, after this mess and "Cool World", why Ralph Bakshi was so hot. You have to wonder about a mindset that skips over the forming of the Fellowship and the Hobbits' harrowing encounters with Gollum, yet gives Frodo an approximately twenty minute long hallucination when the Ringwraiths are chasing him.
The best thing I can say about this movie? The current _Lord of the Rings_ movies are going to look like "Citizen Kane" in comparison, no matter what! It gets a three only for parody value and the unintentional hilarity of the Great Final Battle between a bunch of photocopies and a bunch of extras from an amateur production of "Planet of the Apes".
I have to wonder, after this mess and "Cool World", why Ralph Bakshi was so hot. You have to wonder about a mindset that skips over the forming of the Fellowship and the Hobbits' harrowing encounters with Gollum, yet gives Frodo an approximately twenty minute long hallucination when the Ringwraiths are chasing him.
The best thing I can say about this movie? The current _Lord of the Rings_ movies are going to look like "Citizen Kane" in comparison, no matter what! It gets a three only for parody value and the unintentional hilarity of the Great Final Battle between a bunch of photocopies and a bunch of extras from an amateur production of "Planet of the Apes".