Trailer
Cast
Ian McKellen Gandalf
Martin Freeman Bilbo
Richard Armitage Thorin
Hugo Weaving Elrond
Cate Blanchett Galadriel
Christopher Lee Saruman
Andy Serkis Gollum
{Many more cast actors/actresses, especially since the Dwarf group consists of 12 dwarves. Thorin is the leader and therefore I mentioned the actor for him.}
Plot
Many years ago, the dwarves lived in the mountain. Then a dragon attacked, killed, burned and destroyed everything around the Lonely Mountain. Time has come to retake the mountain. Gandalf decided to stir up the life of the quiet-living Bilbo Baggins by putting a marker on the door and telling the dwarves to meet in his house, which surprises the hobbit but what can you do when you have a dozen dwarves coming in? Gandalf asks Bilbo to be the burglar of the group, to aid them in their quest to retake the mountain, and at first Bilbo says no. For some reason, he finally decides to say yes. What kind of an adventure is this little halfling going to go on? What will he have to endure to get through to the goal? Can a halfling/hobbit go there and come back again?
Rating Criteria
0/5 – No value whatsoever. Absolute waste of time.
1/5 – Barely worth any time.
2/5 – Pathetic but has a bit of something to hold the attention a little.
3/5 – Somewhat kept the attention but could definitely have used more.
4/5 – Good, but not awe-strikingly amazing. Could have maybe used a bit more to the movie.
5/5 – Go see it! Wonderful movie all around. – characters, music, theme, story line, etc.
3.5/5 - *SPOILERS* It was good to return to the Lord of the Rings world. The beginning shows Bilbo writing the tale as he did at the beginning of the "Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring" movie, with Frodo questioning him. Of course it was nice to see that and see how it fit with the other trilogy but it was not necessary because it showed that yes, he did make it there and back. I would have rathered them just take it from the beginning of the tale, not the recollection while he is writing.
As a stand alone movie, it isn't bad. I haven't read the book [SINGULAR!] in ages but I could recognize parts that weren't part of the book - rock giants that seem to be mountains but are also deciding to have a fight while the dwarves and Bilbo are on the side of one, the incident with the goblins, going to Rivendell, the warg riders coming after them, Azog the white coming with blood-thirsty revenge against Thorin, etc. It definitely felt like fluff to me, especially the rock giants [WTF].
I liked the addition of the wizard Radagast with his rabbit chariot, though that was an addition. Radagast and the conversation of any other wizards (aside Saruman) was never mentioned in the books, so it was nice to see a nature-biased wizard in Radagast.
Radagast with his rabbits, leading the warg riders away from the dwarves:
Radagast was definitely the best addition to this movie, in my opinion, though still fluff. Aside that, the movie was kinda lame. I should have listened to my friends when they said "the movie ruined the book's story, especially taking one book and making it into three movies". Yeah, I agree with them but it is up to you if you want to watch this. The world of Middle Earth is good and goes right along with the Lord of the Rings movies, so that's good. The music is right with the Lord of the Rings movies also so that's a point for. However, there is so much added fluff that is noticeably added for fluff (running in the goblin lair like dummies just like when they did it in Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Rings before the Balrog) that it makes the movie substandard for this franchise. I hoped the next Hobbit movies were better and now I will write the reviews for those ones too.
EDIT: Oh, by the way, this is the movie where Bilbo finds the Ring and steals it away from Gollum [while also stupidly telling him where he is from, which will come back after Frodo in "The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring"].
That's my review! Thank you for reading.
More reviews are to come, the next two being "The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug" and "The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies", so keep watching!
~ Gracie Mae DeLunac
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Also, a CinemaSins for this movie: "Everything Wrong with The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey in 4 Minutes or Less":
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