![]() ![]() Their features are inhuman: wide cheek-bones, flat brows. There's a strangeness to the way certain things are drawn. It has an authenticity, a kind of realism, that other animation styles (say, for example, Disney's style in The Black Cauldron), completely lack. To begin, there's some strange quality about Rankin and Bass's animation style. I can't think of any glaring revision and only one omission (spoiler: the Beorn episode before Bilbo and the dwarfs enter Mirkwood is left out). That's perhaps one of the greatest characteristics of this film: its commitment to accurately relating the plot of the novel. I don't think I need to summarize the widely known plot of The Hobbit, which is very much hewed to by this film. This is a great film filled with adventure, excitement, wonder, and, believe it or not, action (it was 1977 and swordfights and stabbing giant spiders was still o.k. ![]()
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