Great movie! Ignore the negative reviews!

Rating: 10/10 (14 December 2012)

I have seen The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and it is a great movie! The Hobbit is not as good as The Lord of the Rings movies, but that doesn't mean The Hobbit is a bad movie in any way. The movie has astounding music, beautiful locations, incredible make-up, amazing weapons, huge sets and brilliants actors. The movie was not 'boring' but was filled with action, story and humor.
The movie felt a little more 'fake' than The Lord of the Rings though. I tried to figure out what it was. Was it to much CGI? Did the CGI not look real enough? This first Hobbit movie is full of Trolls, Big Animals, Wargs, Giants, Goblins and Eagles. There is no way to avoid using a lot of CGI. But the CGI DID look good. Then what was it? What made the CGI feel more fake was all the talking creatures. The movie felt more like the book in having some more childish parts to it, such as singing goblins and talking trolls. That being said some negative reviewers exaggerated when talking about this. They said that ALL of the goblins where ENTIRELY CGI which is not true at all. Most of them where actors in suits with CGI faces, and some did not even use CGI at all! Most of the orcs we see in the movie where also actors in full make-up.
I was glad and a bit shocked that Peter Jackson decided to have so many things in the movie that where just like the book. So the singing dwarfs and talking creatures that where in the book, there in the movie. And I am also glad Peter Jackson didn't go to far in keeping everything exactly just like the book. Having a troll's purse talk just wouldn't work in the movie. So overall I am glad at the balance Peter Jackson made with changes from the book into making The Hobbit a great movie. Ignore the negative reviews! People are being negative because they didn't like the new 48 FPS or they where expecting the movie to be as good as The Lord of the Rings. I gave The Lord of the Rings 10/10. I'm giving The Hobbit 9.5/10. (Since you can't give half a star here on IMDb I'm rounding up.) Good job Peter Jackson, I can't wait for the next movie!