The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey in 60 seconds: my “Reel Faith” review.
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B- |
**½ |
+1|
Teens & Up
There is an early moment in
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey that captures the evocative poetry of Tolkien’s songs — something that
The Lord of the Rings films, for all their achievements, never did. By the time the credits roll, that moment feels like it belonged in a very different film.
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I usually stay far away from trailers. I like to experience movies as cold as possible. But this is Peter Jackson’s
The Hobbit, and my fine principles have failed me. The film itself is still a year off … and I can’t wait that long to satisfy my curiosity.
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C+ |
**½ |
+0|
Kids & Up
Character design is a mixed bag: Gandalf looks very much
himself, but Bilbo is rather cherubic, and the dwarves are
uninspired. Worse is Gollum, disappointingly bloated and stiff
rather than agile and emaciated, and the dreadfully goblin-like
Wood-Elf King. (On the other hand, the Elf-lord Elrond, with his
distinguished features and strange crown-halo, is far preferable
to Bakshi’s dismally graceless version of the same
character.)
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