TOD rocks! It's got the best opening adventure (granted ROTLA has a good one), the best music, and generally captures the serial style story telling better than the other films. The whole second half of the movie is non-stop adventure.

I used to hate it too, but I watched it again about 6 years ago and thought to myself "What was I thinking?! This is the best of the bunch!"

I'm surprised TLC gets as much love as it does, since it's just a retread of ROTLA without as many exciting scenes (the opening adventure is really weak), plus a lot of BAD comic relief (some of it works, though) and too many winks to the audience. It was a real crowd pleaser at the time (especially for me, since I was only 8 years old or something), but it doesn't hold up, IMO (still not a BAD movie).