The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Reviews
Slant Magazine
An insurmountable amount of extras comes second only to New Line Home Video's stunning visual and audio transfer of Peter Jackson's exhilarating and exhausting epic.
Movie Metropolis
...glorious sights and sounds. (Blu-ray Extended Edition set)
Full Review
| Original Score: 10/10
Laramie Movie Scope
A handsome set of Argonath bookends rounds out this exceptional five-disk DVD gift set. A total of 18 film documentaries show how much work went into the making of the films.
Full Review
| Original Score: A
CHUD
Juicy Cerebellum
This DVD, with its 35 additional minutes, has the character development I desired. It has the humor I longed for. It's the fantasy film that I craved.
Full Review
| Original Score: 8/10
IGN DVD
Honestly, what more could you ask for? In addition to getting the extended cut of the film with four commentary tracks and a new DTS ES mix for the film; there's two more discs packed full of documentary material that runs for more than six hours.
Full Review
| Original Score: 10/10
Hollywood Reporter
Top Critic
Daily-Reviews
What brings all these people together, what yokes their individual creative efforts to the task at hand, is a common love of Tolkien's novel . . .
| Original Score: 5/5
CinemaBlend.com
This is not only one of the greatest films ever made by anyone, but it's also the single greatest DVD in the history of the format. Period.
Korea Times
In the end, only one question remains. When is The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers coming out?
Full Review | Original Score: A-
Movie Metropolis
A project with the kind of visual grandeur on display in this movie demands a lengthy running time, and I will be watching the Extended Edition of "LOTR 1" now that I have it in my hands.
| Original Score: 9/10
DVDJournal.com
I was as enthralled by 'Fellowship of the Ring' as the most rabid, con-going, SCA-joining, Spock-ear-wearing fanboy.
Moviehole
| Original Score: 4/5
DVDnett.no
| Original Score: 6/7
SPLICEDWire
Many of the extras on this disc are embarrassingly bland & blatantly promotional...Wait for the 4-disc special edition.
Full Review
| Original Score: 2/4
Entertainment Today
It's difficult to imagine J.R.R. Tolkien's masterwork being [adapted] any better than in Peter Jackson's painstakingly conceived and wondrously executed [movie].
| Original Score: A
Trades
I marvel at and appreciate the heart, love, and respect that went into its making -- both the first and second time around.
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| Original Score: A+
PreViewed DVD
Boxoffice Magazine
Reel.com
| Original Score: 4/4
DVD Clinic
Bottom Line? Splendid movie, pretty darn solid DVD...despite all those damn commercials.
Full Review
| Original Score: 4.5/5
