dull to tedious

Rating: 2/10 (22 March 2013)

Two more sequels to this? Good luck keeping the audience awake. Why? Well, let's start with stretching a single story into 3 movies 7-9 hours long. If you embark on such a mission to milk a cash cow, you should first hire some writers to flesh out likely characters, add some humor, perhaps include a romance, so the story isn't razor thin. After watching our hobbit on Sherlock the BBC telling of Sherlock Holmes, I felt he was an excellent choice. Too bad they didn't bring along Sherlock to give him some character. And the dwarf men are mostly disgusting barbarians with only two or three even being tolerable. Where is the fun in this movie? Where are the characters you want to root for? Even the visit to the elf village was dull and without any real story. I'm glad I didn't pay to see this movie. I was able to fast-forward the repetitious fight scenes -- again, a bunch of old, overweight dwarfs defeat hoards of warriors ( warriors that could notwhip Barbi!). It would have been a relief to have killed off a couple of the worst dwarf characters, even the wizard himself, or the hobbit...who would have noticed? They weren't the least little bit real to me and my wife anyway.