I'm afraid I have to differ from most everyone else's opinion in this case. I really did not like Sean Astin as Sam. For whatever reason, he didn't portray the simplicity and common sense of this character as much as I would have liked. I remember in the cast commentary for The Two Towers , he said something about how he had watched the animated Lord of the Rings and had disliked how that Sam bumbled around so much. That would have been closer to the Sam I know. This new Sam seemed depressed, almost, and lacked the desperate cheerfulness that I dearly loved.
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