Fellowship of the Ring

[Peter K.]

The Two Towers is pretty good as far as movies are good these days. It overdoes it on the cheese
factor but has more humor than the first one. Gollum is cracked out. The elves are faggy although
much more disciplined than the humans. Hardly any women in it.

http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0251/hoberman.php
J Hoberman in Village Voice:

"Speaking of double consciousness, the tender love between the hobbits Frodo and Sam is, as noted by
Michael Musto two issues back, pretty much a given. But those joining the epic in medias res may be
puzzled by the other meaningful looks. Is the sensitive elf Legolas (Orlando Bloom) cruising hunky
Aragorn? Fellowship, to be sure. Meanwhile, sociologists can parse the ethnicity in the gorgeous
mosaic that is Middle Earth. The black-and-blue-faced orcs are carnivorous Cockney apes. The dwarf
Gimli (digitally reduced John Rhys-Davies) sounds Scottish. The elves are Irish, but so are some of
the hobbits."