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Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Absolutely Fantastic

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey starts off with a compelling story and mesmerizing settings as we get to go back to the wondrous place of Middle-Earth. Being a longtime fan of both the Lord of the Rings & The Hobbit movies and books I was one of the first on getting tickets to see the movie on premiere night. From the very start of the opening monologue by the amazing actor Sir Ian Holm I felt the same feelings of magic, adventure, wonder and excitement just as I had done 11 years earlier when I saw Fellowship of the ring. Once again one of the strongest compartments is the amazing casting, as it feels that they really found the perfect guy in every role to play the character. Even though the movie does not follow the book strictly in my opinion this does not necessarily make it bad. For what many reviewers seem to forget is that the medium of film and book is very different, and sometimes changes need to be made for it to work on the big screen. For all fantasy lovers and fans of the world that J.R.R Tolkien created this is a movie that cannot be missed.8/10 Very Good!

Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) is selected by Gandalf as the 14th member of his team and is tasked with assisting a group of dwarves to reclaim their home Lonely Mountain. Baggins is initially reluctant to help, but does prove his worth and eventually wins over a group of rather sceptical dwarves...Many other people have probably eluded to the fact that it was going to be a tough task for Jackson to replicate the success of The Lord Of The Rings. Even going in with expectations of it being not as good (which it wasn't), it still wasn't quite as good as I'd hoped it would be...The Lord Of The Rings films were long films, but in fairness I didn't really notice the time passing by when watching the original trilogy. Sadly that isn't the case here; the set-up to the story here goes on far too long and starts to grate after a while - I realise that some set-up is necessary, but if I'm not mistaken it's getting close to the hour mark before they even embark on their journey. The whole set-up with the dwarves arriving at Baggins house, goofing around and p***ing him off was mildly amusing, but again it was overdone and dragged on for too long.Perhaps that's the problem with this film - it felt like Jackson didn't really have the material to stretch the film to its 'epic' length of just under 3 hours so he just torturously padded the whole film out. Another example of this is Bilbo Baggins encounter with Gollum - yes it's necessary to the story, but again their 'riddling' battle of wits and Baggins playing hide and seek with Gollum whilst invisible seemed to be a long-winded and elaborate way of showing how Baggins acquired the ring. I also felt that the film didn't have much narrative structure or shape and Jackson had a tendency to dart the film in all kinds of directions which at times made the film feel a little muddled - he did this to an extent in LOTR, but it didn't feel as detrimental there as it does here.The performances by the main cast are a mixed bunch; McKellen is always good value and does an excellent job again. The likes of Hugo Weaving and Christopher Lee are solid in supporting roles. Freeman isn't quite as good as many of the other cast members, but does an OK job.Overall then The Hobbit is an OK film that is watchable, but by unnecessarily and painfully stretching the film out to nearly 3 hours in length the film does have a lot of dull stretches meaning that a lot of viewer patience will be required in order to endure it in its entirety.

Now don't get me wrong from the summary, I did enjoy The Hobbit. I enjoyed it in fact more than I expected to especially since I delayed watching them because of certain fears and frustrations I had regarding it.The Hobbit was the very first book I read back in the mid 80's and I adored it. I simply couldn't figure out how it could be turned into a trilogy! I feared it was being done so to milk the franchise and let's be honest that's exactly why it was done.The Hobbit has most of the charm of LOTR and all of its beauty. Top that off with a stellar cast and it was destined to do well at the box office (Which it did) However something was different, something was.....off.Though the film contains the same level of violence as LOTR its overflowing with comedy and goofiness. I expected some, but not to this extent. At one point it felt like I was watching Labyrinth (1986) again, not like that's a bad thing but I didn't expect it here.It looks great, its scored near perfectly and as mentioned the cast do a great performance and it was nice to see the likes of James Nesbitt and Sylvester McCoy up on the big screen.Inevitably there was going to be comparison with LOTR, that was inescapable and the comparison just doesn't help it at all. It pales in comparison and with all the silliness I found myself underwhelmed.The Hobbit is a passable effort but is more like the Mythica series than Lord Of The Rings.The Good: Beautiful Excellent score Brilliant cast The Bad: Some parts go beyond comedic into the realms of silly Martin Freeman just isn't leading man material Goblin town song, really? Stock scream was totally unnecessary Things I Learnt From This Movie: Someone should never use the term "Mothers glory box" again The distance Bilbo's sword needs to detect orcs/goblins changes between scenes, any particular reason?

peter Jackson directed this even though gullimore del toro was meant so peter gave his magic to this big budget masterpiece from the books of the same name this was set before the lord of the rings I saw this in the cinema in 3d it was breath taking with a budget of 250 million I can see why this follows Bilbo bag-gins who along with Gandalf and 13 dwarfs led by thorin oaken shield is wept into an epic quest to reclaim the lost dwarf kingdom of erbor from the fearsome dragon smaug their journey will take them into the wild through treacherous lands inhabited by goblins orcs deadly war-gs the highlight here is under the mountain were there being chased by goblins in 3d with wooden bridges falling down hobbits fighting surfing wood down a rock side and Bilbo having a answer and question game with Gollum one of the highlights of the movie. there is another creature here necromancer along the way the dwarfs re led to riven dale a beautiful place were Elrond gives advice to Gandalf stunning place in 3d with waterfalls the Bilbo bag-gins not only discovers depths of ingenuity and courage that surprise even himself he also gains possession of a precious ring tied to all middle earth in ways he cannot imagine. we see they have to go the lonely mountain on their journey with a dragon in their way I gave this 9/10 brilliant film to start the new trilogy.