A sorry tale

Rating: 3/10 (9 January 2013)

What an enigma this movie is. A great movie will have pages of positive reviews and high ratings, with an occasional negative comment here and there if appropriate. The Hobbit, however, has generated comments from both ends of the spectrum, from awesome to awful, and ratings from 1-10!
Sadly I must side with the negatives. It may be personal taste, but there was way too much slapstick humour, particularly in the 1st quarter, but my main beef was with the physical invulnerability of the characters. I appreciate this is fantasy and makes for great CGI scenes, but it is simply impossibly for flesh and blood humans (well dwarfs), to fall hundreds of feet and not get a scratch. Several times in the movie the group should have perished to a man/dwarf, but no, not a bruise amongst them. Fantasy by all means but the utterly impossible, no. In my humble opinion this aspect of the movie owes more to Tom and Jerry an Tolkien.
A let down to say the least, and the jury's out as to whether I will buy the cinema ticket for the next one, or wait for the video.