The Return of the King (1980)

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The Return of the King
DVD Price: $9.99
As of Sep 4 8:23 EDT (details)


Directed by	Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass
Cast	Orson Bean, Theodore Bikel, William Conrad, John Huston, Roddy McDowall and Paul Frees
Theatrical Release	May 11, 1980
DVD Release	September 11, 2001
Running Time	97 minutes
MPAA Rating	NR (Not Rated)
UPC Code	012569057623
Buy this item	$9.99 at Amazon.com As of Sep 4 8:23 EDT (details) 1 DVD, Warner Home Video, Usually ships in 24 hours, Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC Languages: English (Original Language - Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled) Or 35 new from $6.25, 21 used from $4.00, 2 collectible from $12.98

About The Return of the King

The creative team behind 1978's impressive animation feature based on J.R.R. Tolkien's Hobbit return with this entry drawn from Tolkien's famous Lord of the Rings trilogy. It's good work all around, and not at all the kind of feature-length cartoon that reduces good books to treacle. Orson Bean returns as the voice of Bilbo Baggins as well as that of the trilogy's hero, Frodo. John Huston is commanding again as the voice of the wizard Gandalf, and also in the vocal cast are William Conrad, Paul Frees, and Roddy McDowall. --Tom Keogh Amazon.com

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User Reviews

Average user review:

(127 reviews)

excellent

The DVD was sent in a timely manner. Shipping packaging was excellent. Thank you for delivering a very good B-day present for me to give to a friend. M. Maklary August 4, 2008

Not what I was expecting

this was cool to watch but it was kinda lacking. i guess this is supposed to be a sequel to the animated Lord of the Rings.. which if you haven't seen that, or if you are not familiar with the story.. then you will be left quite confused. more singing and oddly animated characters just as The Hobbit. Trouble is, this movie is nowhere near as charming as the Hobbit was. If you're a LOTR fan though, you'll want to see this one. May 13, 2008

Do not buy it

I bought this "Lords of the Rings" (animated) DVD (and sold it again on eBay almost nothing).

The movie covered "The Fellowship of the Rings" and "The Two Towers". The Movie was actually well made and I bought "The Return of the King" blindly. I was very disappointed. Part III is not a Kids Book (it is not "The Hobbit" (This DVD was nice and appropriate)). "The Return Of The King" (Animated) is like a bad Disney Movie. I read the books a couple times and after 10 Minutes watching "The Return of the King".. I could not stand it no more and turned it off. I just can give you this advice: DON'T BUY IT! Take your kids to the cinema and watch a nice Disney movie instead.

(Original review March 12, 2002) July 6, 2007

Grand adaption

I found this film to be absolutely wonderful. The many songs were great, and the odd animation was beautiful, especialy the backgrounds. The animation was highly stylized, unlike Ralph Bakshi's Lord of the rings cartoon. Bakshi and his use of rotoscoping was horrid at some points, such as the battle of helm's deep, while this movie is beautiful throuhougt. The design of the creatures and characters was great as well. Truly a superior adaption of one of the greatest works of literature ever written. June 25, 2007

good stuff

It was nice to see this animated version. I had seen The Hobbit when it came out, but don't think I had seen this. Lots of fun May 29, 2007

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