Director: Peter Jackson
Year: 2012
Stars: Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen, Richard Armitage, Ken Stott, James Nesbitt, Stephen Hunter, Dean O'Gorman, Aidan Turner
In contrast with Sideways, The Hobbit turned out to be better than I was expecting. After hearing a number of reviews when it was released and I didn't get the chance to go to the cinema and see it, I believed it probably wasn't going to live up to all the hype.
Don't get me wrong, The Hobbit is definitely filmed on almost the same scale as Lord of the Rings, when the book really isn't written to the same scale. However, I wasn't bored by the film, and personally I enjoyed the fact that it had such a clear link to the Lord of the Rings movies. This is helped by the fact that all the actors who need to, return to the roles they had in Lord of the Rings
The Hobbit is due to be released in 3 parts, so this movie certainly doesn't tell the full story. Its main focus is on Bilbo's life before Gandalf (McKellen) and the dwarves appear, and how he copes with being dragged away from his home to go in search of a dragon. This isn't to say that there aren't fights with goblins, orcs, and the ever-present Gollum, of course. By the end of the movie the action has fully kicked, and I, for one, will be happy to watch the next instalment, due out this year- The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.
Rating: 4 out of 5
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