Going beyond two movies for a 300-page book lies the greatest danger of all.

Rating: 6/10 (1 January 2014)

This may be actually the first time that I'll complain of an adaptation (of a book that I love) being unnecessarily prolonged. Seriously, a trilogy??? Of one little book?! While the first installment was enjoyable though in a juvenile way, it becomes apparent in Desolation of Smaug the fillers that Peter Jackson has to add just to make the main plot last all the way to the third installment. And that irks me. It really does. It would have been kick-ass if it was a two-part adaptation, but a trilogy it never should have been.
Despite my issues, I didn't regret seeing it (you should too, if only by principle) and I would still watch the last installment. Imagine us audience being Radagast The Brown when he asked "What if it's a trap?" and Peter Jackson as Gandalf The Grey replying "It's undoubtedly a trap." The Hobbit trilogy indeed is a trap disguised in more or less 9 hours of CGI-fest, beautiful elves, cute dwarfs, an amusing hobbit, & a majestic dragon set up by PJ to make us say "Shut up and take our money!"
my full review on Blogger: http://strangereview.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-hobbit-desolation-of- smaug-peter.html