Eh... Pretty good.

Rating: 6/10 (26 December 2012)

I thought The Hobbit was... pretty good. It was a nice visit back to Middle Earth. A little drawn out (three movies... really?) but at the same time, the characters besides Bilbo and Gandalf remain very thinly drawn. A week after seeing the movie, I am not really left with much to remember about them. One was very fat. Great special effects, of course, and Gollum was amazing. The scene between Bilbo and Gollum is by itself almost worth the price of admission. I will see the other two movies, but I'm not NEARLY as excited about it as I was with the original trilogy movies. Judging by the first film, this is but a shadow of those films- not just in terms of scope (since The Hobbit was a quieter book to be sure), but also in terms of heart. With all that film time, the spell that has been woven to date is not very compelling. Been there, and doing it again, half-heartedly.