Stink, Stank....Stunk

Rating: 1/10 (26 December 2012)

Underwhelmed in 9/10 ways... It's all been intelligently and passionately stated by those more credible and insightful than myself.
Though a work of magical fiction, the movie felt like a bad cartoon, unsuitable for a child's appreciation and stinking up the room for an "old" Hobbit fan....
Awful treatment of such an meaningful story!
The absolute worst aspects had to do with the reliance on bathroom humor, gratuitous pot-smoking/mushroom-eating japes, contemporary language gag lines, sagging dialog and the ridiculous hi-speed rabbit sled (oh, how I found myself wishing a Warg would snap up his guano-festooned head as he lead them in an ever-tightening circle around the anxious band on the run... and this is the "Run, I'll distract them and lead them away", part....huh?). I wont even comment (ok, go on and on) about the Goblin King and his whole thing...just awful!
I will not line up for round 2 and 3....perhaps I will wait for the books...gotta be better!