Hobbit Review :: Pleasantly Suprised

I went into this movie expecting to hate it. I didnt like the 3 lord of the rings movies and I remain repulsed by the cult like attitude some people have toward those movies. I also read a lot of complaints and negetive reviews online from early Hobbit showing.

When I came out I wanted more, though maybe not 2 more movies. The guys waiting to pee in the bathroom seemed to agree. I honestly didnt notice the lenth at all and if fact there were a few scenes which I wish they expanded upon. I also didnt notice the change in film speed - I saw the non 3d version and it didnt appear washed out to me. My only real complaints would be over a few animated falls characters took that didnt look remotely survivable. If you fall 100+ feet accompanied with stones and  huge logs that made up a bridge, and then have a 500+ pound Ogre land on you, your not walking way without some sort of serious injury or limp.

This movie succeeds IMHO because it stays about the story and doesnt focus on individual characters nearly as much as the previous 3 films. Gandalf and Biblo get one or two real scenes of his own, but the rest of the movie is a chorus of rotating dwarfs who were all generally likable and not annoying like Legolas and Gimlee. There was a Jar-Jar Binx character for the kiddoes and I thought he got all the time he deserved and not a moment more.

Anyhoo go see and lets hope they keep it to two movies, not three, because they covered at least 50% of the content of the book in this one movie. Also be sure to check out The Hobbit Cartoon which was an excellent flick for its era.