The Evil Cartoon Movie!

['Areaelf]

Hi! I came to complain about the sorry job on the Hobbit cartoon movie. I'm sorry but it was utterly sad! :mad: They really should make the live-action version, and soon!

Here is why the cartoon is so pathetic:

1)Gollum looks, moves, and sounds like a frog!
2)Bilbo looks like those little porcupines from those little kids' books, if you know what I'm talking about.
3)The dwarves look like wrinkled little prunes with humongous noses.
(if you see where I'm going, I'll just say in short that the overall portraying of the characters was horrible!)
4)The elves of Mirkwood look like skinny, blue orcs! What happened to them being tall and fair, like Legolas? I myself, being an elf, am utterly disgusted!

If you liked it, I'm terribly sorry about all this, but I had to say something because my friend wouldn't let me talk (I annoy her sometimes! lol)

'Area

[HLGStrider]

It's pretty bad. ..but it could've been a lot worse. Truthfully that cartoon turned me off from the books for a long time because the Goblins scared me as a baby.

['Areaelf]

They were pretty horrible. Sorry you felt that way. But apart from that, they kept singing that stupid theme song. I wonder if Tolkien wrote that one? If you ask me, I think that they should have used 'Roads Go Ever On and On" for the theme.

Oh, and are dragons supposed to have those weird tufts of fur coming from their cheeks?

'Area

[Dark_Glamdring]

That´s why I prefer books, no movies. I don´t think there´s need of a live-action-movie of a book to fix what other movie did, some people doesn´t like their fantasy/book heroes in flesh and blood either.
So, your own imagination is the best

['Areaelf]

I totally agree! The LOTR movies are still good, but the books are soooo much better! Tolkien just has 'the gift'! :D

'Area

[Gandalf White]

I have never seen the animated Hobbit, or any other animated LotR for that matter. Having read the Hobbit, the stills on the movie cover totally turned me off, even at a very young age.

[Turin]

I saw it a while back and thought it was quite humorous :D, though I still haven't figured out why they made the elves blue :confused:.

They really should make the live-action version, and soon!

As far as I know they are, it should be finished around 2007. I'm not too happy about that, but the good thing is, PJ is not directing it :rolleyes:.

[Gandalf White]

But fortunately his WETA Workshop is doing the special effects, I hear.

[Saucy]

:eek: eep that cartoon is scary! need i say more.

iam actually Anti hobbit movie because however they make it i kno i most likley wont like it.

[Ol'gaffer]

Here is why the cartoon is so pathetic:
1)Gollum looks, moves, and sounds like a frog!
2)Bilbo looks like those little porcupines from those little kids' books, if you know what I'm talking about.
3)The dwarves look like wrinkled little prunes with humongous noses.
(if you see where I'm going, I'll just say in short that the overall portraying of the characters was horrible!)
4)The elves of Mirkwood look like skinny, blue orcs! What happened to them being tall and fair, like Legolas?

All the reasons here are all simply your problems with how the film looks, not how it plays. To me, I could easily put aside the visuals and concentrate on the story, which was quite faithfully adapted and worked well as a kids movie.

being an elf, am utterly disgusted!

...Riiight...

[Mrs. Maggott]

I watched it again a while ago and it was much as I remembered it. Of course, I was much younger when I saw it and it was a relatively happy time in my life so there are associations which make it more positive that it would otherwise have been. On the whole, as a Rankin Bass exposition it really wasn't as bad as it might have been and I still think that the late Richard Boone's voice was glorious as Smaug! That man's voice was like dark chocolate - good enough to eat! Oh, and Walter Houston wasn't bad as Gandalf or Orson Bean as Frodo either. Hans Conreid as Thorin was a problem, but only because I loved the actor and he kept popping into my mind every time Thorin opened his mouth! Ah! Uncle Tanoose!

Furthermore, it at least had the blessing that they didn't cut out the bit where Thorin dies (which might have happened in a "kiddy" film) and they stuck pretty close to the story or at least as close as their time limitations permitted!

Sure, it wasn't "classic", but it could have been a whole lot worse under the circumstances.

['Areaelf]

To: Ol'gaffer

The thing is, I have an artist's point of view, like my best friend. We look at every miniscule detail, like Orlando Bloom's nose for example(we think it's cute!). When I read a book, a 'movie' plays before my eyes, and this movie shocked my imagination. I never though of Bilbo as that I can't ignore the fact about how they look. The story did follow extremely closely, probably better than they would in a live-action version. I look both at the story and the animation. In a case of a live-action movie, it would be actors and actresses, sets, and props, and script...

[Turin]

I watched as much as I could of the cartoon version of the Lord of the Rings, the Hobbit was a lot better. The cartoon LotR was so horrible I couldn't even sit through 5 minutes of it, normaly when theres a movie like that I sit and laugh but this was too bad to laugh at. The orcs where like real people that where dubbed into the cartoon, and Boromir was like a viking, horn helm and all.

[Kelonus]

I seen The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings cartoon and well I wasn't into them much. The Hobbit cartoon is better though.

[Jotun]

I loved the cartoon as a little kid and would rent it whenever I could. However, I saw it recently and thought it was pretty bad. Not how I remembered it at all.

There are a few things visually wrong about it, Bilbo looking more like a beaver, the dwarves looking like the California Raisins, Gollum looking like...god knows what, and Gandalf having a dunce cap on, and the animation's pretty bad.

The acting's pretty odd gawful and the John Denver-ish song irritates me. It's just not a well-made cartoon.

But, as others have said, it's not as bad as the Lord of the Rings cartoon. Blech.

[Mrs. Maggott]

The Rankin Bass "Hobbit" was a creature of its time. LOTR and T.H. were BIG back then; people couldn't get enough of them, especially teenagers and young adults, many of whom "escaped" the angst of the Viet Nam years via passage to Middle-earth. The "folk song" sound track was vintage 60s as was the delicate "watercolor" animation coloration. Actually, for its time it was quite sophisticated! Consider it in relationship to The Flintstones or Yogi Bear!

I'm afraid many look at these cartoons - R&B and Bakshi - with the jaded eyes of people who have watched Ice Age or Toy Story or Monsters Inc. or Shreck. Such techniques were simply unavailable those days but I certainly would like to see T. H. and even LOTR or parts of The Sil done in a "Finding Nemo" or "Ice Age" - both of which had wonderful visuals - technique. The Sil won't be done simply because it is such a "downer", but LOTR and T.H. are certainly candidates for Pixar or any of the other great animation studios! Who knows? Maybe they will stick to the story a little more closely than the "live action" group! Even Bakshi and R&B did that no matter how lousy their technology.

[33Peregrin]

I just thought it was funny. The worst part about it is that for a while, I couldn't stop imagining the elves the way they are in the movie, when I read the book.