The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
The hobbit follows the sequence of the Lords of The ring, as Baggins is enjoined by Gandalf to join the dwarfs in a journey to Erebor.
25 March 1979, Chickasha, Oklahoma, USA
1 December 1976, Auckland, New Zealand
5 August 1975, Dunedin, New Zealand
24 July 1991, Auckland, New Zealand
28 March 1958, St Leonards, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
23 November 1974, Wellington, New Zealand
8 September 1971, Aldershot, Hampshire, England, UK
13 September 1979, Manila, Philippines
20 August 1943, Dunoon, Strathclyde, Scotland, UK
12 September 1931, Goodmayes, Essex, England, UK
19 June 1983, Ireland
29 June 1976, New Zealand
28 January 1981, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA
14 May 1969, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
May 10, 2016
Watching the three great actors in eye-popping 3D as they go on and on about dwarves, dragons, a necromancer, elves and ogres is the joy and ridiculousness of a fantasy movie that takes itself very honestly and seriously.
December 14, 2012
It frequently seems as though Jackson was less interested in making The Hobbit than in remaking his own fabulously successful Lord of the Rings series.
December 14, 2012
The repeated iterations of fight, flight and respite here get wearing. Especially perhaps because, with Jackson's fetish for detail, they take more time to watch on screen than to read about.
April 12, 2016
[Peter Jackson's] efforts to filter or self-edit - assuming there were any - remain fruitless.
July 14, 2016
There were extended sequences when my eyes literally could not track the action. Sense of space was demolished. Motion swamped the screen.
March 28, 2017
There is a good deal to be said about Peter Jackson's long-awaited and exceedingly long adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, most of it bad.
December 14, 2012
My first thought in watching The Hobbit was: Do we really need this movie? It was my last thought, too.
June 20, 2016
The 'LOTR' films have become so iconic and undeniably definitive, that it's often anticlimactic in 'The Hobbit' to hear grand characters saying new sentences in new settings.
April 28, 2014
You may have seen Middle Earth before. But you haven't been IN Middle Earth.Peter Jackson's 'The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey' has made it possible for you to feel like you're surrounded by the astonishing environment created by J.R.R. Tolkien.
December 14, 2012
There's no denying the majesty in Peter Jackson's visuals but he's taken a relatively slim children's book and stretched it beyond the limits.
May 03, 2015
A bloated, entirely unnecessary cash-grab prequel suffering from a fatal case of elephantitis.
December 14, 2012
To its own narrative detriment, "The Hobbit" works hard to lay the framework for what will follow. Certainly that's one way to set out on a trilogy, but it's surely not the best.
