Stinks worse than Laketown on a hot day.

Rating: 2/10 (25 December 2013)

Peter Jackson should be ashamed of himself. And I'm going pretty much going to leave it there, because 1,000 words are not enough to lambaste this horrific, stupid waste of time and money. The Hobbit, as originally written, would have made a thoroughly enjoyable 2.5-hour family movie that could have created a new generation of fans for Professor Tolkien's later works. Supposedly, any "extra content" was pulled from the Appendixes in LOTR. Well, that's a complete and utter falsehood. New Line and Jackson have given in to the lure of easy money, and hopefully, just like Smaug, they will find that love of money will lead to their downfall. The only reason I'm even giving it two stars because Smaug was pretty impressive looking, and I love Stephen Fry, even if he's in a piece of offal like this.