A great cinematic experience, but nothing like the book!

Rating: Null/10 (15 December 2013)

As a Tolkien fanatic and avid reader of the Hobbit and LOTR, I was very excited when the Hobbit was announced as being made into a film. I found the first one to be too long and lacked continuity. The second one I found to be even worse! The writers have taken their poetic license too far and have written a story that is so far from the book, it would as well be a completely different story. It is cinematically very good, with great CGI and a feast to the eyes, but the sub plots and infill stories are too subjective and the story itself is nowhere near as good as the book. I realise that this movie needed to be a bit more grown up than the book, however this could have been done quite easily whilst sticking more rigidly to the original tale! Very Disappointing!