Too long for a short plot. Should have been one movie.

Rating: 5/10 (23 December 2012)

I didn't really follow the development news about this film - The Lord of the Rings trilogy largely satisfied my lotr fandom. So I was most surprised when my friend informed me that the this was only part one of three adaptations of the Hobbit. That confused me, wasn't The Hobbit a relatively short book, with a rather simple plot? Such things can either be thought of as money grabbing or fan service. I think it depends on the product, splitting the final book worked for Harry Potter after all.
But in the end, the Hobbit's main problem was the lack of plot development throughout the movie. The film instead mainly relied on dialog and drawn out scenes to fill in its 2 and a half hours. True, the scenery and special effects are brilliant, and the dialog quite clever and witty, but there just wasn't enough story. I firmly believe that as a one film adaption the Hobbit would have been much better.