Frodo and Sam are trekking to Mordor to destroy the One Ring of Power while Gimli, Legolas and Aragorn search for the orc-captured Merry and Pippin. All along, nefarious wizard Saruman awaits the Fellowship members at the Orthanc Tower in Isengard.
Part two is more a straight-ahead action flick, substituting brawn and brawling for the pastoral radiance of the first film.
– David Germain,
Associated Press,
19 Nov 2013
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The battle for Gollum's mind also provides a fitting teaser conclusion to the second act of a story I'm beginning to wish would never end.
– Jack Mathews,
New York Daily News,
19 Nov 2013
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To live up to expectations, The Two Towers only had to be as good as its predecessor -- and, astoundingly, it's better.
– Keith Phipps,
AV Club,
19 Nov 2013
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When Gandalf arrives with reinforcements, descending a near-vertical slope using horses where you or I would use snowboards, the spirit of triumphant rampage is something rarely glimpsed since the days of Olivier and Henry V.
– Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
19 Nov 2013
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It's a thrilling three-hour epic that flies at a gallop, boasts the most impressive computer graphics yet created, and succeeds smashingly as grownup drama and kid-captivating fantasy.