Terrible, absolutely terrible

Rating: 1/10 (24 March 2013)

I've read a lot of the reviews here and a lot of them have spot on information. So, I will keep this short and sweet:
It's terrible. Anyone who grew up reading the books and living in Tolkien's world would be simply astounded... at how badly they mangled this book into a movie. For all the people out there who have never read the books and only see the movies, I feel intense pity and empathy for you because the books and the world created by them are vastly more intense and fulfilling than any of the movies portray. It's like trying to show the whole universe with 1 small Polaroid picture.
The LOTR movies were all-in-all pretty good but The Hobbit (Part 1?) was a total disappointment. Parts of the story were completely destroyed, other parts missing altogether and new parts added that didn't need to be there.
Tolkien is surely rolling in his grave.