The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey:What's it about?Peter Jackson & Co return to Middle Earth with
Lord of the Rings prequel
The Hobbit (
a new three-part movie extravaganza), where a young Bilbo Baggins is reluctantly pulled into a quest with a collection of Dwarves to take back their home from the dragon Smaug.
Who would I recognise in it?Martin Freeman, Ian Holm, Ian McKellan, Cate Blanchett, James Nesbitt, Richard Armitage, Ken Stott, Graham McTavish, Hugo Weaving, Elijah Wood, Christopher Lee, Andy Serkis, Sylvester McCoy.
Great/Good/Alright/Shite?If you didn't like
The Lord of the Rings trilogy, you won't like this, but inversely, if you were into those films (
or, indeed, the original texts) then you should be happy here. A lovingly crafted fantasy world, unending glory shots for the New Zealand tourist board, Orcs, Elves, Dwarves, Hobbits, Goblins and so on - you know what to expect by this point if you're familiar with "
the other trilogy" that took the cinematic world by storm in the early 2000s. It has to be said though, that the pace is a bit slow up front - there's only so much time you can spend at the dinner table in the company of Dwarves before you start thinking "
shouldn't we be cracking on with this quest of yours?", and those who complained about the
LOTR trilogy being nothing but '
three movies about people walking' (
the Randall Graves' of this world) won't be in any danger of changing their tune.
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