Amazing movie

Rating: 10/10 (14 December 2012)

It was absolutely amazing, great graphics, quite funny where allowed, fast paced action, awesome character development (of old and new characters), a movie the whole family can enjoy, very well done!
The one thing I would have liked to see would have been real actors in costumes and makeup for the orcs like in the LOTR trilogy.
Still an amazing movie though! I definitely plan to see it again in theaters. It had much of the classic characteristics of the LOTR trilogy but with the multitude of new aspects you would hope for in a new blockbuster hit movie. I thoroughly enjoyed the aspects of the movie that make it more of a kids movie, how the original book was geared towards a younger audience, which resulted in a lot of comedy scattered throughout the film.
The scenery was absolutely amazing, be it real landscape shots to computer generated grand dwarven mines. I liked how the villains were revealed but in a non-obvious manner that partially concealed their identity, at least to those not very familiar with the story.