Very disappointing and distorted version of the Hobbit

Rating: 5/10 (21 December 2013)

I grew up reading and rereading and loving the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings. I enjoyed Jackson's Trilogy but I think Hobbit has suffered greatly in the translation from book to screen. The scene with Bilbo the burglar-to-be at Bag End and the dwarfs rivals the approach to the Enterprise (Star Trek: The Motion Picture, 1979) for being unnecessarily interminable. The escape sequence (cave of the Misty Mountain goblins) is so unrealistic that it becomes a ridiculous caricature of something out of Indiana Jones. To add insult to injury it is only part I of III. You've got to be kidding!!! The Hobbit is all of about 300 pages versus nearly 1500 pages for the Trilogy. This is simply gross money-mongering at the expense of the audiences. Sorry, I love Tolkien's The Hobbit just not The Hobbit Movie.