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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Bilbo carries on with a straightforward existence with his kindred hobbits in the shire, until the wizard Gandalf arrives and persuades him to join a gathering of dwarves on a journey to recover the kingdom of Erebor.
29 May 1980, UK
1955, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
27 May 1922, Belgravia, London, England, UK
12 September 1931, Goodmayes, Essex, England, UK
20 August 1943, Dunoon, Strathclyde, Scotland, UK
1963
April 28, 2014
You may have seen Middle Earth before. But you haven't been IN Middle Earth.Peter Jackson's 'The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey' has made it possible for you to feel like you're surrounded by the astonishing environment created by J.R.R. Tolkien.
December 14, 2012
The repeated iterations of fight, flight and respite here get wearing. Especially perhaps because, with Jackson's fetish for detail, they take more time to watch on screen than to read about.
December 14, 2012
To its own narrative detriment, "The Hobbit" works hard to lay the framework for what will follow. Certainly that's one way to set out on a trilogy, but it's surely not the best.
May 03, 2015
A bloated, entirely unnecessary cash-grab prequel suffering from a fatal case of elephantitis.
May 10, 2016
Watching the three great actors in eye-popping 3D as they go on and on about dwarves, dragons, a necromancer, elves and ogres is the joy and ridiculousness of a fantasy movie that takes itself very honestly and seriously.
June 20, 2016
The 'LOTR' films have become so iconic and undeniably definitive, that it's often anticlimactic in 'The Hobbit' to hear grand characters saying new sentences in new settings.
December 14, 2012
It frequently seems as though Jackson was less interested in making The Hobbit than in remaking his own fabulously successful Lord of the Rings series.
April 12, 2016
[Peter Jackson's] efforts to filter or self-edit - assuming there were any - remain fruitless.
December 14, 2012
My first thought in watching The Hobbit was: Do we really need this movie? It was my last thought, too.
December 14, 2012
There's no denying the majesty in Peter Jackson's visuals but he's taken a relatively slim children's book and stretched it beyond the limits.
March 28, 2017
There is a good deal to be said about Peter Jackson's long-awaited and exceedingly long adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, most of it bad.
July 14, 2016
There were extended sequences when my eyes literally could not track the action. Sense of space was demolished. Motion swamped the screen.