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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

2012

Peter Jackson

Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen, Richard Armitage, Ken Stott ...

7.0

85,364

Fantasy. Adventure. Action Bilbo Baggins, a Hobbit, journeys to the Lonely Mountain accompanied by a group of dwarves to reclaim a treasure taken from them by the dragon Smaug. Bilbo is swept into an epic quest to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor, which was long ago conquered by the dragon Smaug. Approached out of the blue by the wizard Gandalf the Grey, Bilbo finds himself joining a company of thirteen dwarves led by the legendary warrior Thorin ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"In pure movie terms, however, it's also a bit of a slog (...) There are elements in this new film that are as spectacular as much of the Rings trilogy was, but there is much that is flat-footed and tedious as well, especially in the early going."	NEU
United States	Richard Corliss Time	"The movie lacks majesty. Grand in parts, the movie is too often grandiose or grandiloquent; and the running time is indefensible."	NEU
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"The Hobbit alternately rewards and abuses auds' appetite for all things Middle-earth. (...) The primary advance here is technical (...) an innovation that improves motion at the expense of visual elegance.	NEU
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Serkis helps turn The Hobbit into everything you wished for—a fantasy with the power to haunt your dreams. Too bad it takes the movie so damn long to get there (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of four)"	NEU
United States	Anthony Lane The New Yorker	"Subtitled “An Unexpected Journey,” though that does little justice to the result. Had Jackson been more accurate, he would have called it 'Not Quite There Yet,' or 'Still Some Way to Go' (...) it leaves us more astounded than moved"	NEU
United States	Lou Lumenick New York Post	"Piles on enough eye candy and action sequences to please fans, plus more humor than the three 'Rings' films - even if it only occasionally achieves the trio's grandeur (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of four)"	POS

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