Product: The Hobbit [VHS] (1977)
Rating: 3.0
A great book dumbed down
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien is a great book for kids and adults, and I highly recommend it to anyone. This movie, however, does a poor job of conveying the book. I know that a movie can never do everything a book does, but there are times when they could have done a lot better. The dwarves were OK, but Bilbo looked like a girl, the elves looked old and bent, and the goblins? What can I say, they were huge, bigger than Gandalf, their mouths were so big they could swallow a hobbit whole. Beorn was gone, too. I know this was made to be a children's movie so they have to "dumb it down" a little, but they could at least have been accurate.