The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers was followed by The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King in 2003.The Lord of the Rings is composed of six "books", aside from an introduction, a prologue and six appendices. I feel that Jackson hits his stride in this film and it still has the wonder that The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King loses a bit of through the need to tell the story faithfully.
I realize that The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers is the filler movie/book and as the filler movie/book, it isn’t meant to be a standout. It is easy to forget he’s computer generated and the movie gives his character real depth and texture by having a solid computer generated character (just compare him to Jar-Jar Binks)…something that can make or break a movie (plus, you got to like the Oliphaunts).
The film still contains the greatness of New Zealand (though some of the great pans of the vastness of the land already start to feel repetitive), but Gollum steals the show. It is Gollum which helps me also put this movie above the first film. Bernard Hill, Miranda Otto, David Wenham, Karl Urban, and Brad Dourif are added to the cast in the film, but the scene stealer here is Andy Serkis as Gollum/Sméagol who really brought life to the creature through his motion capture. The movie does introduce one of my favorite characters in Treebeard the Ent (with John Rhys-Davies playing double duty as his voice. Unlike the previous entry where Ian McKellen stood out, the story and characters feel a bit more evenly balanced. The cast remains strong and you can tell how they have grown together at this point. All three storylines reach a satisfying point in the story to make you want to see the third film. Here, this is developed into a compelling story and the action switches back and forth enough to feel like it mixes better that in the novel. Every time they broke for the Aragorn, Gimli, and Legolas parts in which they helped the people of Edoras, I found my eyes glazing over.
The book really suffered from the fact that I didn’t care too much about the humans in this section of the story. I’d don’t know Sam…he seems pretty trustworthy
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