Nice adventure but disappointing

Rating: 6/10 (24 March 2013)

Since there are already a thousand reviews for this, let me get right to the point. The first half of this movie is a bit silly and childish, but things get more serious and suspenseful in the second half as the movie begins to resemble the LOTR trilogy movies more. Despite the inconsistency, this is a fun adventure that introduces younger versions of Bilbo, Gandalf, Saruman, and Gollum. The action scenes are incredible if you like CGI, especially the sequence in the mountain, but they are not believable unless you suspend your belief in reality. My final thought is that this movie doesn't make the same emotional impact as the LOTR trilogy and thus is not something you want to watch more than once. This movie goes in the once-is-enough category. And it doesn't make me want to watch the second Hobbit movie coming out this year.