Friday the Hobbit part 2 was released. And while I am no longer standing in line at 8am for the opening movie, which is now at Midnight rather than 11am, I still like to go opening day.
My review: a moderately entertaining three hour movie that is nothing like the book.
Why? The Hobbit book is an adventure. It's about a Hobbit who decides to leave his Shire and go on perhaps the grandest adventure of all. He meets fantastical peoples in the elves and the shape shifter, saves the dwarves from more than one mishap and somewhere along the way find his courage. It's lighthearted, whimsical, and the prose brings to life a wonderful world.
The Hobbit movie is about a vendetta between the deposed King of the Dwarves, the Necromancer and his White Orc, and one very ill tempered dragon. We have"RUN! You Fools!", grandiose chase scenes, kung-fu like fight scenes, Gandalf holding off the necromancer on a tiny bridge while holding his staff aloft, and a love interest. It's like watching a Dungeons and Dragons video game. It's dark, fast paced and creepy (you can't watch this and not think the spiders are creepy...).
The movie is nothing like the book. Except for the ill-tempered dragon, who I don't blame for being so cranky at such a deviation from adventure to action.
Indeed, Mr. Peter Jackson, what have you done?
Recommended with reservations.
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