The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim - Reviews

This anime-style journey to Middle Earth dials back on risk and charm to robustly tell a simple tale of good versus evil.

...dives into Rohan's history with an entertaining, Hobbit-sized adventure.

Striking and dynamic animation...

...Bakshi’s succeeded in his most basic of tasks: a vivid imagining of Tolkien’s timeless tale of Good and Evil.

Blazing its own trail that parallels its flesh and blood siblings, while also respectfully doing its own thing, this is the sort of expansion that properly revitalizes a well-known franchise.

...the best attempt we've seen of expanding the LOTR universe in recent years...

...combining cutting-edge Japanese animation with the audiovisual language established by Jackson’s original trilogy of films.

...worth checking out, especially for the devoted.

There are morsels of Middle-earth magic here. And when Stephen Gallagher’s score liberally borrows from Howard Shore’s ‘Riders Of Rohan’ theme, few spines will go un-tingled.

It’s certainly interesting, and at times even exciting. Héra – an invention for the movie, as Tolkien’s legendarium is not overflowing with Strong Female Characters...

Att gestalta historien som anime känns heller inte som ett orimligt val om man vill närma sig en rik fantasivärld.

...med ett relativt rustikt manus, och ett överraskande blodigt utfall är den absolut sevärd.

...er flot animeret med effektiv brug af cgi-effekter til at puste ekstra liv i 2d-animationen, når der skal skrues op for rabalderet i de smukke krigssekvenser og Héras vilde rideture.

Der er flotte billeder af heltebedrifter og krigsflammer, men ‘The War of the Rohirrim’ udmærker sig med sit poetiske og barske blik på, hvad krig også er...