Meh with some unintentionally funny scenes

Rating: 5/10 (29 March 2015)

Some scenes are laugh out loud funny. Legolas (not even in the book) running up the falling stones of a tower turned into a bridge as if they were stairs is a riot.
Overly CGI, at times the characters look like mannequins because of the over processing.
Characters appear that are not in the Hobbit and a made up (not appearing in any of the books.
And a 45 minute battle! Was that really necessary? Or was that just to stretch the move out to the expected 'epic' length expected for a Hobbit/LOTR movie?
Turned a good book into silliness.