With 50 minutes of additional footage making this film over 4 HOURS long, it will still stand out as better than the theatrical release for one good reason.The TRUE ending.To anyone who read the books, the missing story of the demise of wormtongue and sauroman and the return to the Shire for Sam/Pipin/Merry were a huge dissapointment.This will restore the fan faithful's respect and admiration for the achievement of Peter Jackson's telling of this wonderful story.Regardless of this one dissapointment, the theatrical release version was a well told story packed into a 'brief' 3 1/2 hours ;-)I can hardly wait to see it.