An amazing return to Middle-Earth

Rating: 9/10 (16 December 2012)

12/16/2012 I saw 'The Hobbit' today in 24 FPS and 3D. And I was honestly blown away. This film was great in every aspect. First I would like to say that I've read many reviews of The Hobbit and all of them complain about the length of the beginning and how long it takes to get into things. All of the reviews are wrong. The beginning was necessary to help us take in the new world, but so familiar that Peter Jackson and crew has brought us to again. Being a big of the books and franchise of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, I was in awe and grinning the entire movie. The Hobbit is an exceptionally different movie than The Lord of the Rings. The movie has a lighter tone and has a lot of CGI that LOTR did not have. And when I first heard of this, I was disappointed, beings that most of the Orcs and Urak-Kai were real actors in LOTR. But, when I was watching the film, all of these worries washed away. I found myself not knowing if they were real or not the CGI was so good. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is an amazing film, that is so different from The Lord of the Rings, in many ways, and that is not a bad thing, at all. This movie brought me back to the Middle-Earth that I fell in love with years ago, and at the same time, showed me a totally different world, I have never seen before. Cannot wait for the next two movies of 'The Hobbit' trilogy.