What on earth happened here?

Rating: 5/10 (11 April 2015)

A little late for my review considering I watched this when it came out, however better late than never...
I normally enjoy these movies, and there were some aspects of this film that I enjoyed, but it was ruined by some utterly retarded things.
For example, for the majority of the time in the movie, they were fighting over this precious item and the treasure within the mountain, but then in the end it becomes completely irrelevant to the story - even though it has significance in the comic books and illustrations! This is totally ignored in the movie in the end.
Another example is of an incredibly unnecessary and forced love interest between an elf and a dwarf that added NOTHING to the story. It wasn't even a side-story. It was there for the sake of being there.
There are other couple of stupid things such as ponies being able to climb a completely vertical wall of mountain. Like actually run up it at a ninety degree angle. This also includes the completely random addition of eagles who come out of nowhere and one of the characters shouting out randomly "Look! The Eagles are coming!".
Seriously, if these silly things weren't added in the film and they stuck to the treasure they were all fighting for this would've been a good film.
It was entertaining, but for the wrong reasons and I'm not surprised by the low ratings fans have given this movie.