Constantly Epic to the Point of Inane

Rating: 3/10 (10 January 2013)

Why must the makers of adventure-films feel the need to make their films constantly epic and weighed down with suspense?? It ends up being nonsense. Every scene is super-charged and super-extraordinary. And these endless escape scenes and fighting against thousands of enemies... It is ridiculous! The music in the background is emotionally laden at all times which serves the purpose of leading you around like a pig at a fair, inciting you to feel something. God, let's have some normal scenes with normal dialogue and story-line. Let's have a lull in the action and suspense. Let's have some balance. The points that I have given for the movie is for the spectacular CGI which is superb. Tolkien wrote The Hobbit to be a children's book. It is written in a playful style that is appealing to children. The baddies such as orcs and wargs are depicted in a way that is not at all frightening. But in the film these baddies are bloody terrifying! It is a pity that Peter Jackson felt the film could not express the playful style in which Tolkien wrote the book. The book abounds with playful humor jumping from scene to scene but in the film humor is almost totally lacking.