Hobbit DVD

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 "Imagine?"
The story line itself, without the primps and the prods, needs use of one's "imagination" to complete the journey here, no doubt. .... Just the same, I remember quite well when this was first presented on screen for the first time and still consider the creativity and wonder of the story to be an important building block for the child inside each of us. .... Yes, very true, if you see this particular selection after you've seen the updated versions of the Fellowship and so-forth, you may be disapointed. But overall, this base and format cuts a lead above the rest as it pushes you to use your foresight and imgination to fill in the blanks. .... Nonetheless, I do own this and still consider this a prime piece of work for the series. Don't blame me if you fail to visualize the magic and fantasy involved, but I do recommend it for the collection. .... Best of journeys my friends and "Thank You" CDU. Just open your eyes, loosen your mind and "Imagine"....
Submitted by Phat Bill (Syracuse)
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 You Gotta Be Kidding Me
This movie was my favorite cartoon of ALL TIME when I was a boy in the early '80s. It still has some fantastic songs and although it is missing some parts of the 300 page novel, its a children's story and hits a home run for me!
Submitted by todde2 (Las Vegas, NV)
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 Middle Earth comes to life
On the technical side the film was presented well for its time. What I really liked about the movie was that I finaly had faces to put with the characters. I, also, would like to see Jackson or someone do aversion with live actors and keeping close to the original story line.
Submitted by tjaungst (Dade City, Florida, USA)
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 Okay
I think this movie was okay. I liked the dwarfs song but they showed gollum all wrong. he looks, in the movie, like a toad/fish thing. I am a big fan of the books and have read them all and it goes along pretty well with the book but leaves alot out. I hope Peter Jackson makes it a movie. I think he would make it a lot beter but this movie was good for the 70's and you can't expect too much because it was made for little kids.
Submitted by Christine (Deerfield,NY,USA)
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 Tolkien for Kids
Long before Peter Jackson, The Hobbit was the first of Tolkien's works to be adapted to the screen. This animated version premiered on television in 1978 and it is passable, but nothing spectacular. This movie tells the story of how Bilbo Baggins acquires the ring that becomes the central focus of The Lord of the Rings trilogy. The movie follows the book fairly well, but it is basically play by numbers. At only 77 minutes, it moves through the story quickly and fails to develop it. It lacks the feel or spirit of the book and the characters receive little development. Gollum, who is one of Tolkien's more interesting creations, is portrayed as a loathsome toad. Smaug hardly seems the awesome and terrifying creature that Bilbo outwits in the book. Gandalf and Bilbo are the only characters who receive an acceptable treatment. The animation is passable and the music is at best listenable and at worst annoying. As an introduction to Tolkien's works for kids this movie succeeds. However, for a more adult and/or Tolkien-savy audience this is lacking as a good representation of the depth of story telling that he was capable of. Unfortunately Peter Jackson has said that he has no plans to adapt this book so for now this is the only adaptation of The Hobbit available.
Submitted by paulswhite (Colorado Springs)
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