The Hobbit (1977)

One of the best films i have seen

best movie i've ever seen.

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

I remember not too long ago, when Tolkien fans would trash this cartoon saying it was silly, stupid and such. I felt weird because, I loved this cartoon to death! If you ask me. it was a much better adaptation than the mega budget recent production.The part that always glued me to the set and still gives me chills to hear today, is when Bard takes up the black arrow. Nuff said. This was one of the book's greatest moments and has never since been portrayed in film as successfully as in this film.Beat me with a stick if you like, but I love the songs too.The voice acting was incredible. I don't think people even have the capability today to enjoy the excellent characterizations and talent displayed in this wonderful little film. It's like going back to watch Lon Chaney portraying the "Phantom of the Opera" and really grasping what a fantastic silent actor he really was.Yet, you can! Give it a try. This is definitely like finding your old childhood teddy bear still quite huggable. :D

Rank and Bass were never known to use top quality studio art, and this version of The Hobbit is testament to that. Even so there is enough art in the character and overall production design to make it palatable to most visual pallets. But, it is offshore animation, meaning a Japanese production company took the script delivered by Rank and Bass and gave their rendition of a Northern European mythology."The Hobbit" is not a sterling book, but readable, and written for a pre-teen to mid-teen reading audience. As such, distilling the story to screenplay format means taking the key events and highlighting them for the visual format. The film suffers because there's little in the way of making a cohesive story. The writing does that on its own, which is testament to Tolkien's skill as a writer, because otherwise the film leaves little to bring the scenes together as a cohesive film. Essentially we're seeing a made for TV animated special, as was the original intent, and because of this the production limitations are noticeable, but for most children at the time this was aired, somewhat forgivable. I say somewhat because both Disney and Warner Brothers had shown children what good animation looked like.So when Japanese animators, used to cranking out anime episodes a week with low drawing count, comes and presents us a very Anglo tale with a Japanese tinge, the results are somewhat mixed.Even so there is a certain charm to this production in that it was the first filmed version of Tolkien's very entertaining story of Bilbo Baggins and his adventures. Bilbo represented the young boy reader, including myself, who read the tale years back before it became a media sensation in the 70s and again in the 2000s. I've always thought this rendition of "The Hobbit" had its high points, but was also a bit conservative, it being a children's film and the need to keep the violence in the story toned down for mass consumption. It would have been interesting to see what one of the big animation studios could do with the same tale.Not a bad film per se, but lacking in my personal judgment, primarily because it was "dumbed down" so to speak for a mass market. Still, it's an interesting watch, and likable in a nostalgia like manner.Give it a shot.

These are the reasons I don't like this movie: The songs are very annoying through the entire movie, the character design is of nightmares & I feel too much that this is not based on a book by J.R.R Tolkien, but a person who felt that the books were too hard for kids & decided to wright it as childish as possible (Probably what happened when I think about it). There was not a moment I was wondering when the movie was over from the beginning till the end, not a good sign. There is a reason this movie is not common knowledge for the general public, that is because it's not a good one. My suggestion is to keep away from it & watch Peter Jackson's version.

great film good for birds i recommend to parakeets and noisy sprites everywhere. i watched it with my bird and he loved every second, except for eating birdseed and the occasional hobbit foot. my other bird gangwifre who is a retarded horned owl, and these two pigeons that just flew through the window like whoa what. they all loved it but the pigeons shat on my floor god dammit. overall 10/10 recommend to birds great film good for birds i recommend to parakeets and noisy sprites everywhere. i watched it with my bird and he loved every second, except for eating birdseed and the occasional hobbit foot. my other bird gangwifre who is a retarded horned owl, and these two pigeons that just flew through the window like whoa what. they all loved it but the pigeons shat on my floor god dammit. overall 10/10 recommend to birds