The Hobbit

Rating: Null/10 (20 December 2013)

The movie added a lot to the book. In the book we don't know what Gandalf was doing while he left the dwarfs, but in the movie we see that he met Sauron, the necromancer. In the book are quiet no women, but in the movie is a love story between a dwarf and an elf woman. What we can't see in the movie is, that Bilbo went several times in the hall to steal something from the dragon Smaug and how Bilbo tricked the spiders with his song to free the dwarfs.
I really liked in the movie the little love story and the escape with the barrels and how they fought against the goblins in their barrels. The first meeting from Smaug and Bilbo was also better in the movie than in the book. But I was really pleased that I had read the book before I watched the movie, because in the book the important plot is better shown and there aren't so many switches from Gandalf to the dwarfs and back.
I found it still a good adaption to the book, because it is always funny to how the creatures look like and how their characters really are. Bard for example was for me in the book a very nice and likable human being, but in the movie I didn't like him so much, because he wasn't so friendly to the dwarfs. The movie filled a bit the gaps, which I had in the book.
I would (or already had) recommend the movie to my friends and family members, because the movie is well done and it was interesting and funny to watch the Hobbit. But I would also say, that reading the book first would be better. Julia F.