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• Rate: 8.1/10 total 312,559 votes 
• Genre: Adventure | Fantasy
• Runtime: 169 min
• Filming Location: Piopio, Waikato, New Zealand
• Budget: $180,000,000 (estimated)
• Gross: $303,001,229 (USA) (19 April 2013)
• Director: Peter Jackson
• Stars: Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman, Richard Armitage | See full cast and crew
• Original Music By: Howard Shore   
• Soundtrack: Misty Mountains
• Sound Mix: Dolby Atmos | Datasat | SDDS
• Plot Keyword: Mountain | Journey | Dwarf | Ring | Dragon

Writing Credits By:

• Fran Walsh (screenplay) &
• Philippa Boyens (screenplay) &
• Peter Jackson (screenplay) &
• Guillermo del Toro (screenplay)
• J.R.R. Tolkien (novel "The Hobbit")

     

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) Synopsis :

Prolog: During the preparations for the birthday party at the beginning of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, the elderly Bilbo Baggins (Ian Holm) is writing a memoir. He describes the fabulously wealthy dwarven kingdom of Erebor and its relations with the human kingdom of Dale and the wood elves ruled by Thranduil (Lee Pace). The dwarves are ruled by Thror (Jeffrey Thomas), the King under the Mountain, and the neighboring leaders pay homage to Thror.

Dwarves, elves, and men prosper. The caves under Erebor, rich in gold and jewels are mined for an uncountable horde of riches. The dwarves find the Arkenstone, their most valued jewel, which Thror displays above his throne. One day Thror's kingdom is attacked by a dragon, Smaug. Smaug destroys much of Dale and makes short work of Erebor's defenses, despite the brave and canny leadership of Thror's grandson Thorin (Richard Armitage). The surviving dwarves flee and Thorin is embittered when their erstwhile ally, the elven king Thr.......

Goofs: Continuity: When Thorin speaks to Balin in Bagend, the key he is holding changes orientation in his hand between shots.

Plot: A younger and more reluctant Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, sets out on an "unexpected journey" to the Lonely Mountain with a spirited group of Dwarves to reclaim their stolen mountain home from a dragon named Smaug. Full summary »  »

Story: Bilbo Baggins is swept into a quest to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor from the fearsome 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 Oakenshield. Their journey will take them into the Wild; through treacherous lands swarming with Goblins and Orcs, deadly Wargs and Giant Spiders, Shapeshifters and Sorcerers. Although their goal lies to the East and the wastelands of the Lonely Mountain first they must escape the goblin tunnels, where Bilbo meets the creature that will change his life forever ... Gollum. Here, alone with Gollum, on the shores of an underground lake, the unassuming Bilbo Baggins not only discovers depths of guile and courage that surprise even him, he also gains possession of Gollum's "precious" ring that holds unexpected and useful qualities ... A simple, gold ring that is tied to the fate of all Middle-earth in ways Bilbo cannot begin to ... Written byProduction

Produced By:

• Carolyn Blackwood known as executive producer
• Philippa Boyens known as co-producer
• Carolynne Cunningham known as producer
• Matthew Dravitzki known as associate producer
• Toby Emmerich known as executive producer
• Alan Horn known as executive producer
• Peter Jackson known as producer
• Ken Kamins known as executive producer
• Eileen Moran known as co-producer
• Amanda Walker known as associate producer
• Fran Walsh known as producer
• Zane Weiner known as producer

FullCast & Crew:

• Ian McKellen known as Gandalf
• Martin Freeman known as Bilbo
• Richard Armitage known as Thorin
• Ken Stott known as Balin
• Graham McTavish known as Dwalin
• William Kircher known as Bifur / Tom Troll
• James Nesbitt known as Bofur
• Stephen Hunter known as Bombur
• Dean O'Gorman known as Fili
• Aidan Turner known as Kili
• John Callen known as Oin
• Peter Hambleton known as Gloin / William Troll
• Jed Brophy known as Nori
• Mark Hadlow known as Dori / Bert Troll
• Adam Brown known as Ori
• Ian Holm known as Old Bilbo
• Elijah Wood known as Frodo
• Hugo Weaving known as Elrond
• Cate Blanchett known as Galadriel
• Christopher Lee known as Saruman
• Andy Serkis known as Gollum
• Sylvester McCoy known as Radagast
• Barry Humphries known as Great Goblin
• Jeffrey Thomas known as Thror
• Michael Mizrahi known as Thrain (as Mike Mizrahi)
• Lee Pace known as Thranduil
• Manu Bennett known as Azog
• Conan Stevens known as Bolg
• John Rawls known as Yazneg
• Stephen Ure known as Fimbul / Grinnah
• Timothy Bartlett known as Master Worrywort
• Bret McKenzie known as Lindir
• Kiran Shah known as Goblin Scribe
• Benedict Cumberbatch known as Necromancer
• Glenn Boswell known as Dwarf Miner
• Thomas Robins known as Young Thrain
• Frazer Anderson known as Hunter Orc (uncredited)
• Jarred Blakiston known as Musical Elf (uncredited)
• Shane Boulton known as Rivendell Court Elf (uncredited)
• Melanie Carrington known as Elf (uncredited)
• Brendan Casey known as King Thranduil's Lieutenant (uncredited)
• Renee Cataldo known as Goblin (uncredited)
• Stephen Gledhill known as Old Gammidge (uncredited)
• Tim Gordon known as Old Hobbit (uncredited)
• Ray Henwood known as Net Mender (uncredited)
• Brian Hotter known as Otho Sackville-Baggins (uncredited)
• Katie Jackson known as Hobbit (uncredited)
• Dean Knowsley known as Elven Guard (uncredited)
• Tim McLachlan known as Goblin (uncredited)
• Nathan Meister known as Goblin (uncredited)
• Joseph Mika-Hunt known as Hunter Orc (uncredited)
• Terry Notary known as Goblin (uncredited)
• Thomas Rimmer known as Goblin (uncredited)
• James Trevena-Brown known as Goblin (uncredited)
• Mark Trotter known as Goblin (uncredited)
• Richard Whiteside known as Erebor Dwarf Guard (uncredited)

Production Companies:

• New Line Cinema (presents)
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) (presents) (as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures)
• WingNut Films

MPAA: Rated PG-13 for extended sequences of intense fantasy action violence, and frightening images

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) Review by dlpburke from United Kingdom

Let's kick off with the score I've given it. 5/10. That's for thereasonable job with the comedy, design, and things not related to storyand pacing (with the exception of Gollum and the cave scene). I amtired of saying "The graphics are great, but..." I have rated it 1 hereto reduce the average in order to reflect reality and not the fanboylove-in.

I am not going to sugar-coat this film or give it a good review justbecause people tell me I should. I am sick to death of sheep. I don'tcare if this is Tolkien or Jackson or how much money it took to makethe film. If it's bad, it's bad.

Graphics count for nothing. The reason I watch a film is primarily fora great story and well written characters (I have to CARE about what isgoing on). I don't get dazzled by graphics anymore (if I ever did atall), and 3D action films do not make a film good. So right there isthe problem with The Hobbit. The story is shallow and pretentious andcardboard. Let's run through why the film had me rolling my eyesthroughout:

- The introduction is way too long.

-The pacing is dire (and scenes that weren't in the book have beenadded).

-One brainless action scene after another for no other reason than toeat screen time (because the book is 300 pages and they are trying tomaximise profits by having 3 films at 3 hours each). Watching 2 rockmonsters fight for minutes is not captivating or cool, it's boring.

-Implausibility factor 10. I understand this is a fantasy. I understandthat if everything was ultra realistic it would end up boring, but forheaven sake, that does not mean you can get away with what happens inthis film. EVERY single scene shows something that would ordinarilykill someone. Fall down multiple ravines, battle 100's goblins withjust a few men, rocks the size of cars flying at you... and noscratches, no deaths. It just doesn't work.

-Lazy writing. You know you are witnessing a lazy-ass story when yourheroes are saved at the last minute EVERY time in multiple scenes.Where does that leave us? It leaves us with all main characters intactand no dramatic tension. Every scene you see a massive rock crush acharacter you know they aren't dead. Every time you see them perilouslyclose to the edge of a cliff, you know that even if they fall, theywill be saved and/or survive. Further to this point, smaller problemsexist such as Bilbo never handling a sword to suddenly taking on killerbeasts like he has been to He-Man training school.

-Cliché crap. The way Bilbo goes from being an outcast to beingaccepted is contrived and rushed and totally obvious. It just smacks oflazy cliché writing. The acting that goes with it is not good either.Kind of like "I once said... you weren't one of us... OH how wrong Iwas!" *Roll eyes time*. Then you have the White Orc that Thorin said hehad slain, and you just KNEW it was coming back at the end for somesort of showdown, didn't you? Talk about obvious. I blame the film forthis because the scenes involved in the exposition were way toosee-through... might as well have had Thorin wink at the camera! Thatbrings me onto the whole "Thorin dislikes Elves" angle, where you knowthe Elves are suddenly going to become important allies just so we canhave a totally obvious and expected reversal. Wow, Thorin, you gotBilbo wrong and you got the Elves wrong too! DRAMA.

-Lack of character development (Think Final Fantasy XII if you are agamer). This was the stake through the heart of this film... Most ofthe dwarfs are completely redundant and I could not identify or evenaccept Bilbo. This was due partly to the lack of character development,partly to the script and partly to the actor. Same goes for Thorinexcept the scenes he is in feel more like a bad soap opera than they doa "blockbuster" film.

It is just dull and lifeless and stupid. You shouldn't do things justbecause you can. The LOTR trilogy for the most part had decent pacing,and it didn't do things too fast, too soon, or for the sake of it. Theoriginal trilogy suffers from some the complaints above AT TIMES, butnothing like The Hobbit does... The Hobbit is in a league of its own. Iwent to watch an engaging movie and I got a cartoon.

The use of CGI is also glaringly obvious and fake; like with theprequels of Star Wars, when the movie cuts between humans and CGIblobs, your brain is onto it. Stop relying on CGI for everything. It'sgetting annoying, not to mention OLD. At least Jackson makes real setsso it isn't a total wash out.

There is some real potential in this film and it is squandered; whetherthat's because Tolkien wrote a flawed book, whether it is because hewrote a book that doesn't take well to a feature length movie orwhether it is because Jackson messed it up, that's what we ended upwith.

The Hobbit should have been 2 films, and making it 3 has been the finalnail in the coffin.

So, I am sat here mightily annoyed that once again graphics and selfindulgent, completely pointless action scenes have trumped goodstorytelling and pacing.

Of course, the film is still entertaining at times and the 3D visualsare fun, but for me it is a massive disappointment.

Visuals can not MAKE a film, but when used like in The Hobbit, theysure as hell can break it.

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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) Review by Kasper Cockx from Belgium

I was convinced the (many) criticisms I read beforehand wereexaggerated and wouldn't bother me. To my surprise, quite somecriticisms seemed justified in the end ...

***THE SCRIPT***

ADDITIONS: On paper, the additions looked like a great way to createadded value. However, while I understand why they included them, theyall feel out of place.

- Opening scene: Ian Holm just looks too dissimilar from his appearancein FOTR (especially his haircut), which is really distracting. Theframe story doesn't blend in naturally and the history of Erebor hastoo much to show in too little time.

- Radagast: He appears as suddenly as he disappears. His scene in DolGuldur really threw me out of the movie.

- The White Council: I know the screenwriters want to underline thegrowing dark powers (hence the - preposterous - finding of the Morgulblade), but the empty talk about things of which we all know howthey've played out in the LOTR films isn't convincing at all.

- Azog: An appallingly one-dimensional character, who feels most out ofplace (the fact that he looks like a creature from a cheap horror moviealso doesn't help ...). His scenes have a strange "un-Tolkien" vibe,particularly the battle of Azanulbizar (the worst scene of the movie),which doesn't feel like a fierce and thrilling battle at all.

FROM THE BOOK: The episodic structure prevents the film from having afluid narrative and squeezes the tension out of every new dangeroussituation: the events just leave you cold.

In the book, we experience everything through Bilbo's eyes, whichcreates a strong connection between the reader and the main part. Thisis missing from the movie: Bilbo even seemed to have more or lessdisappeared between the troll encounter and the stone giants' battle.His homesickness, his doubts, all of this isn't really developed in thescript.

The emphasis on Thorin is a good thing, but also not perfect: duringthe enclosure by the Wargs, I didn't buy Thorin's charge towards Azogand especially Bilbo's sudden "action hero saves the day in the nick oftime" intervention. The latter seemed like a very inappropriate way toillustrate Bilbo's courage.

There were actually only two great scenes: Riddles in the Dark isamazing, but ironically, it also painfully shows how mediocre the restof the movie actually is, because this is the only moment that comesclose to the level of LOTR. Also, Bilbo's speech after they've escapedGoblin Town is a very welcome, for rare touching moment.

***THE PACING***

It's quite astonishing some people complain about the pacing, becausethe film was over before I knew it. In fact, I think the pacing isabout just right and proved it would have been really difficult toadapt the book in just one fully-fledged movie. But since I didn't likethe additions, I'm doubting whether a third film is necessary after all(but I suspend my judgment until 2014).

***THE CINEMATOGRAPHY***

One of the biggest (unpleasant) surprises is the cinematographic style.I'm not talking about the bright colors or the digital images, but the(lack of physical) camera use. Whereas LOTR has stunning "real" cameramovements and an extremely accomplished "handicraft" feel, AUJ oftenfeels like a video game. The camera is flying and whirling solimitlessly that it just doesn't feel like an authentic movie anymore.This is particularly apparent during the Orc chase and above all theabsurd Goblin Town escape. The CGI is perfect, but too much is just toomuch.

***THE MUSIC***

After my long list of complaints, I'm truly relieved to say there is atleast one thing that unconditionally gets my support, which is thescore. The people who unfairly label Howard Shore's work as a "re-hashof LOTR" obviously didn't pay full attention, because when you listento the score multiple times (and I admit it also took me several spinsto really appreciate it), you discover a new rich and diverse musicaltapestry once again masterfully woven by Shore. OF COURSE you hear thesame themes when EXACTLY THE SAME places are visited as in "TheFellowship of the Ring" ... If someone deserves credit for "TheHobbit", it's Shore: his music is in my view the only aspect of themovie on par with the level of LOTR.

***3D & 48 FPS***

- The 3D was good, no complaints about that. However, although I haveno problems with watching movies in 3D, I start questioning itsnecessity.

- I am bewildered many people claim that 48 fps creates a "TV-look"with "actors with clear make-up on a fake set". I didn't have thatfeeling at all, but on the other hand - and this was the mostsurprising - the difference with 24 fps isn't THAT spectacular. After30 minutes, I even had to remind myself: "Oh, I'm watching 48 fps,right?". Yes, the images look very clear and it does smooth fastmovements, but the latter (which is positive) only sticks out a coupleof times (and no, the motion never comes across as "sped up", so I wasnever distracted by the higher frame rate). All in all, I consider 48fps to be an improvement over 24 fps (without diminishing the"cinematic" look of a film), but I didn't have the feeling I hadwitnessed a "revolutionary new cinema experience".

***** CONCLUSION *****

I didn't expect (or want) a replica of LOTR, but while "The Hobbit"isn't a bad movie, it isn't good either. I'm still perplexed I don'tfeel any urge to go see it again, unlike the LOTR films. We can onlyhope that Jackson recovers in time to save the next two films fromunnecessary additions, lack of focus on Bilbo and a video game feeling.Well, at least we have new brilliant music to listen to!

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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) Review by Eric from United States

Peter Jackson's return to the world of Tolkien is rather weak. At firstI was against the idea of such a small book being made into a trilogy.I still am. Many say not to compare this film to the far superior "Lordof the Rings" trilogy. Well, it's hard not to considering Jackson hastried so hard to recreate the style of the original films becausethat's what the audience wants. But he fails big time.

The bizarre, unfunny, slapstick humor is painful. This involves snotjokes, burping, poop hair, and lame one-liners. Don't give me the "it'sbased on a children's book" crap. Sure, the source material was writtenfor children but I'm talking about the movie. Adding all this stupidhumor really messes with the tone; it doesn't feel like it belongs inthe LOTR universe which "The Hobbit" is trying so hard replicate. Thefilm will go from trying to be epic to pathetic gags. It doesn't work.I don't mind a little humor occasionally but this is just overdone andit makes the film feel very unbalanced.

Now to the pacing. Many say the beginning is slow but they're wrong.The entire film is slow! Radagast's involvement is pointless and hisbunny sled is ridiculous. We also get to see Saruman and Galadriel in aboring scene that has absolutely no relevance to the main narrative.Wait, what exactly is "The Hobbit" about again? Apparently Jackson istrying to make connections with LOTR, but "Fellowship of the Ring"already explains past events pretty well. Seriously, all the LOTRfanboy pleasing scenes could have been left out (including Frodo). Butno, we need them in order to have enough material for the trilogy. Notgood.

And I understand that Jackson is taking material from the appendices ofLOTR. I wouldn't have a problem with this if all these extra scenesactually advanced the plot. But the White Council just talks and theynever decide to act on anything. Also, that scene has NOTHING to dowith the dwarfs reclaiming their homeland. At least in "Fellowship" theplot makes major advancements but in "The Hobbit" the story hardly goesanywhere.

Let's discuss the action. It's like watching a video game. The main orcvillain, Azog, looks fake. Everything is CGI overload; there's notension. Characters survive unbelievable situations. Compare the endingorc scene in this film to the one in "Fellowship." Huge difference.Unfortunately everything in "The Hobbit" is cartoonish. Not to mentionmost of the action has no impact on the story whatsoever.

Now to the characters. Gandalf is great but that is to be expected.Martin Freeman does fine as Bilbo but his transition from weakling tohero happens a little too quickly and feels unrealistic. Thorin is yourtypical warrior like character; I didn't care for him too much. Bifuris probably my favorite of all the dwarfs (hold on, I just searched hisname and realized I got the wrong one, his name is BOFUR, my bad). Allthe other dwarfs are just there and if you were to ask me to name themand describe something about their character, I couldn't do it. And I'msure you couldn't either.

But the film does have some good. We get to see Bilbo and Golluminteract in an iconic scene. The finding of the Ring is alsosignificant and is really the only scene that should have anyconnection with LOTR unlike Galadriel, Frodo, etc. And that's about it.Honestly, nothing really happens. While watching "The Hobbit" you kindof forget about the main adventure because of all the padding. Then atthe end you're like, "Oh yeah, there's a dragon." Maybe the second filmwill improve.

It's such a shame that "The Hobbit" ended up being a drawn-out,bloated, boring mess that lacks compelling characters and an engagingstory. I really wanted to love it but it's hard not to ignore the manyproblems. I couldn't wait to return to Middle-earth but now I'm notsure if I want to go back to this new cartoon version. Hopefullyimprovements will be made in the sequels but after witnessing this myhopes aren't too high. All these years of anticipation and this is whatwe get...

*IMDb auto corrects the plural word for "dwarf" when it really shouldbe dwar(ves)

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