The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

The Hobbit: An Unexpected journey is the prequel to the Lord of the rings series. The

Movie tells the story of Bilbo Baggins journey to help the dwarves take back the Lonely

Mountain and it treasure from a dragon who has taken it. It also explains how Bilbo had gotten

the One Ring and the sword Sting.

Many people say this movie was an ok movie. They fail to realize even with Jackson’s

experience with the lord of the rings, this is a completely different movie. Also with any trilogy,

the first movie is where you learn what the people want in the next one. Then you take what

they say and try to correct what you did wrong in the first movie and do better in the second

and third.

Personally, my mother and Sister complained that there was no giant battle of armies

similar to The Two Towers and The Return of the King. In response I told her that the first movie

of the Lord of the Rings series: the Fellowship, showed only a battle that happened in the past

then the next two movies would have a battle of armies. Plus you get many small battles in the

movie to keep you entertained until the end.

Bob Mondello, who is a Critic from N.P.R., said this in response to seeing the film;

“The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey isn't "unexpected" at all, though between its lighter tone and a

decade's worth of improvements in digital film techniques, there should be enough of a novelty factor

to delight most fans.”

 What Mondello means is that he knew that there was going to be a film of the Hobbit, but they

were surprised by how it had a lighter tone and how they used all the improvements to film making and

the techniques since The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.

In response to his review on Fandango I agree that the film had a brighter tone and that the

movie was made to also entertain children who were with their parents. The Lord of the Rings trilogy

however had a heavier and slightly darker tone to it. In fact they were already planning on doing this

this movie when they completed Lord of the rings trilogy. If they didn’t, they would’ve had many

depressed and angry Tolkien fans who loved The Hobbit.

In another review, Todd McCarthy from the Hollywood Reporter had this to say about the

Hobbit.

“A purist's delight, something the millions of die-hard fans of his Lord of the Rings trilogy will gorge

upon. In pure movie terms, however, it's also a bit of a slog, with an inordinate amount of exposition

and lack of strong forward movement...There are elements in this new film that are as spectacular as

much of the Rings trilogy was, but there is much that is flat-footed and tedious as well, especially in the

early going.”

McCarthy believes that any person who read the hobbit would love the story. However he states

that he believes that the plot of the movie was slow and there wasn’t very much progression with the

plot. He also compliments the films elements and how carefully the movie was filmed including the easy

going scenes.
 I agree that this movie appeals to any person who loved and knew Tolkien’s stories extensively.

However to me the film seemed to move at an average and acceptable pace while keeping the plot and

design fully shown. The film must have been very tedious since people expect much from Jackson with

all the great movies he has made.

In conclusion, I feel that this movie was very successful and whish that Peter Jackson would do

every movie based on a book or TV show. The reason is that besides Harry Potter, Most films are so bad

that they make me feel like the movie was just made because they knew a lot of people would go see it

and the directors never even read the books or saw the television show.