Nowhere near Lord of the Rings quality

Rating: 3/10 (30 December 2013)

I just finished to watch the movie Hobbit2: The desolation of Smaug and it was a huge disappointment. After having kept LOTR as my all-time favorite movie for 10 years, I was absolutely certain that Peter Jackson could walk on water. I went to watch the Hobbit1 blindly thinking at the marvels I was about to fill my eyes with, and felt awkward at my dissatisfaction when the movie ended. I thought: "maybe I don't relate as well as I thought to dwarfs being the stars of the movie". But I didn't fault Peter Jackson because I was sure that it had to do with me, not with his talent.
Then came the desolation of Smaug.
I never could get into the movie, relate to any character or follow the unfolding of the story with anything but befuddlement. The parts are unhinged and don't link well together. Even Gandalf, Gandalf! was wooden and remote. And I must say that I consider Sir Ian McKellen as a top- notch actor.
Other problems lie with the total lack of respect for the original story, the lack of coherence between diverse aspects of the plot and the lack of character depth.
This is something that you can expect from a B movie, but not from the man that managed to put the Lord of the Rings on the screen successfully.
What happened with the attention to detail and the love and dedication to Tolkien's legacy? I don't know.
I'll just pretend that the movie "the Hobbit" has never existed to avoid sullying my attachment to the Lord of the rings which is still my all-time favorite movie.
PS (I don't know why the IMDb auto-corrector keeps spelling wrongly the plural of "dwarf" but I wish to apologize for the spelling mistake, I just can't edit it)