A respectable follow-up to LOTR but not as impactful

Rating: 8/10 (31 December 2012)

I like LOTR and so I definitely would follow the Hobbit Trilogy. To me, the Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is still entertaining though the formula to entertain hasn't changed quite much.
Also there is a little issue - When the dwarfs turned up unexpectedly at Bilbo's house, the first thing they said is "At your service". This didn't quite reconciliate with what transpired afterwards: Bilbo had to sign a risk bearing contract in order to join the unexpected journey; at one point of the journey Thorin even said that Bilbo should not have joined them; and Bilbo in fact had been servicing the dwarfs (instead of the other way round) by offering rescue at various times.