This movie is absolutely one of the greatest movies ever made. This has a great story as well as great acting and amazing, I mean amazing special effects. Gollum is the best CGI character to date, no questions. Peter Jackson is doing a great job on bringing these films from book to movie. There is a difference between the movie and the book, but so what. To some movie goers 3 hours is way too long and if you put everything that was in the book in this movie, you would have WAY more than a 3 hour movie. This movie ROCKS and if you haven't seen it, DO SO! This Extended Version is going to be awesome (Just like The Fellowship Extended Version was). With up to 43 minutes of added seens, how can you go wrong in buying this. This is the ultimate DVD for Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers!

Great movie - great characters - great acting - wonderful special effects - and it even manages funny moments in the midst of parts favorite characters could die any moment. And that is hard to do without making it seem silly, but they've done it here.And the Special Edition is worth the extra money. It includes deletes scenes, extra commentaries, and much more then the normal version of the DVD.Recommended for everyone.

...including me! This is the first time I've ever been excited about LOR. I'm incapable of plugging through the books, but I've appreciated these films.I'm excited to see the ending!

Jackson doesn't believe that the extended version would play well in theaters and that may well be true but I won't go to a theater to watch this trilogy as I want to see every frame he has recorded. He's contributed a beautiful piece of work that we can savor for many years to come.

How could they have topped "Fellowship of the Rings?" The casting, scenery, music has become so entangled with the book that they're virtually inseparable. Plus, this addition gives us 43 minutes enhancements to tell more of the story and the characterization. I love getting lost in Tolkien's world for 3 hours or more.

If you're a Tolkien purist, with little appreciation or understanding for what it takes to screenplay a complicated book, and bring it to life, you won't like this movie. To follow the books, line for line, nuance for nuance, would make for 3-20 hr episodes, that would bore an Ent to death. As it was, it bordered on being a bit of commercial travel guide for New Zealand, but you had to admit, if you were looking for Middle Earth, they found it and brought it to life, scene after scene. Could have spent a bit more time with some of the sub rather than Frodo and Sam, who were not prominent in the second book, but the confrontation at Helms Deep and the revenge on Saurman's Tower more than made up for it.This will be more for keeping J.R.R, Tolkien alive in literature, as any has done for it author.