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Above:
A face not even his mother could love – an Uruk-hai Orc
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Above: Frodo does battle on in his quest to destroy the
ring
Below:
Gollum, Frodo’s guide to the gates of Mordor
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Let
me take this opportunity to say, welcome to a new year of
cinemagic.
I
am pleased to be able to begin the new year with news of another
gigantic Irish’s Movie Review Column ticket giveaway.
Thanks
to Becker Entertainment, I have 150 double passes to
offer readers of this column to see a good, old-fashioned
horror movie – Dog Soldiers. Six men behind enemy
lines, a full moon and the enemy is hungry!
Full
details next issue
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Towering
adventure
Lord
of the Rings: The Two Towers
Stars Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, John Rhys-Davies, Christopher Lee
and Miranda Otto. Rated M
Reviewer
:: The Big Irish Git
The
fellowship of the ring has been broken, but high adventure continues.
Frodo
Baggins and Samwise Gamgee continue on their perilous quest to Mordor
to destroy the ring and put an end to evil in Middle Earth.
Meanwhile,
the remaining companions have been split in two. While Merry and
Pippin are in grave danger of being eaten by their captors, Aragorn,
Legolas and Gimli form an allegiance with the Rohan and stand to
fight evil hordes of Orcs.
Seeking
sanctuary in the fortified Helm’s Deep, new friends band together
for one last, desperate fight against unfathomable odds. What ensues
is a titanic struggle between good and evil – a fight to help
save man and Middle Earth from eternal darkness.
With
the stakes this high and the story (almost) faithfully transposed
from print to celluloid, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers is
an epic movie of just on three hours of nail-biting viewing.
And
what viewing. With the majesty of New Zealand landscapes melded
with the magic of 3D animation, breathtaking make-up and costumes
and, of course, a timeless script, it was well worth the long wait
since the first instalment.
If
I must make criticism, the only minor fault that bugged me at all
was the scene when the Uruk-hai, riding dog-like mounts, attacked
the Rohan on their journey to Helm’s Deep. For me, this scene
was about the only one where the 3D animation was too obvious.
This
opposed to the rest of the movie where you couldn’t tell whether
it was animation, really good make-up or just plain real.
Case
in point – Gollum. A weird, wild-eyed little man, too ugly
to be real, yet too real to be make-believe.
Demented
by the power of the ring, Gollum is captured by Frodo and Sam and
pressed into service as a guide on the road to Mordor’s Black
Gates.
Tormented
by a private, inner struggle between good and evil, it is never
clear whether Gollum is worthy of the trust placed in him by Frodo.
But his introduction as a major player in the plot certainly adds
a new and delightful dimension to an already complex tale.
After
two instalments and with six hours of viewing behind us, we now
wait patiently for the third and final chapter – The Return
of the King.
The Big Irish
Git rates this movie 5 shamrocks
You
can view more than 100 other movie reviews by The Big Irish Git
on his personal web site www.bigirishgit.com
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