I wrote a pritty nice review for the effects on it. I'm not sure if they decided to put it up this site or if it was not able to be uploaded at all. To put it all in a nutshell, I'll just want to say that the effects on the battle scene took about four years to make, maybe even more. Crits are saying that this movie will change how they do great battle scenes. I totally agree on that.

I loved the movie myself. Wiseman, funny how you should mention Pippen and Merry, the scenes with the Ents(tree creatures) was my favorite, and Gimli The Dwarf was the charachter I liked most in this sequel (didnt like him much in the first one). This time he is so funny but when the fighting starts he is damn good, but still funny.

I'll give this a perfect score myself.