Peter Jackson's wacky adventures in Middle Earth

Rating: 1/10 (10 June 2015)

This movie is NOT JRR Tolkien's "The Hobbit".
Instead, it is a sad combination of a few elements of The Hobbit, together with misplaced elements and too much artificial cross-over with Lord of the Rings and way too much of the following:
Twilight, American Ninja, & Donkey Kong
Indeed, there are a few concepts made-up by PJ & Co that are in direct contradiction to Tolkien's world: Elf/Dwarf love affair to name an obvious one. He claimed to have taken that material from the LOTR appendix, but that is pretty much an out-and-out lie.
I have no respect for Peter Jackson after seeing what he did to this story, and I used to have a lot of respect for how he handled LOTR... so sad. It's hard to even believe anyone could screw up a story like "The Hobbit" so bad. It's almost impressive...