SheilaM !!!! (Hi, and welcome to the board, btw)
I let my 16 year old go to the midnight showing at the local theatre, too! Despite her having exams the following day! She actually had to TAKE one exam -- the later one -- 10 AM, so I am not totally crazy! However, we kept her visit to Legolas a secret from her daddy who WOULD think I'm insane!
She is an absolute LOTR fanatic and has seen the first movie something like 18 times and is just wanting to read the trilogy over again. Her friend works at the theatre and got her in for the showing AND, even better, the manager gave her the celluloid trailer for The Two Towers.
Like Jesika she LOVED the movie and saw it again the next afternoon. LOL.
The movie critic from The Detroit Free Press gave it four stars -- something he rarely does, it's been more than a decade -- and said that Gollum will win an Oscar for the Best Computer-Generated Character, too. He also advised seeing the first movie again before heading out to the second for continuity's sake.
I hope to see it over the holidays!
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