"You've heard the grumbling from CinemaCon, you've read the lukewarm early notices, but nothing can prepare you for just how horrendous - how flatly, distractingly uncinematic - The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey looks in 48 frames per second," warns A.A. It looks terrible in 48 frames per second "It's not for kids - there are too many grotesque, wart-covered, slavering beings getting their heads and limbs loped off." But what adult could be drawn into a story in which it's obvious that "no matter what happens, Bilbo Baggins and his pals would come out just fine with the help of Ian McKellen's wizard magic"?ĥ.
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But the film's extended length will be too much for most children, and "the intensity of the violence earns the film a legitimate PG-13 rating." I don't know who this movie is supposed to be for, says Emily Yoffe at Slate. Peter Jackson "seems to have forgotten that - unlike the intricate, epic Rings trilogy - The Hobbit is a children's story," says Mark Mohan at The Oregonian. It's too violent and prolonged for kids - but too simple for adults "It's an adventure quest worthy of a D&D campaign, to be sure, but hardly the end of the world."Ĥ. While the Lord of the Rings trilogy concerns the fate of all of Middle-Earth, The Hobbit is about a bunch of dwarves trying to recover their treasure from a dragon.
"It's that it tries so unbelievably hard to be when it isn't." After the massive success of his Lord of the Rings books, Tolkien himself once revisited The Hobbit and tried to rewrite it as a darker tale before realizing that the result "just wasn't The Hobbit" - and Jackson hasn't succeeded where Tolkien failed. "The problem with The Hobbit isn't that it fails to be Lord of the Rings," says Laura Hudson at Wired. It tries too hard to be Lord of the Rings The Hobbit is just as disappointing as the Star Wars prequel trilogy: A "husk with the superficial features of a Rings movie but none of the energy and wit."Ģ. But unfortunately, Jackson "has caught George Lucas disease": the compulsion to "revisit beloved franchises and louse them up with maddening prequels" that fail to live up to the original films, or deepen our understanding of them. "Given the scope and grandeur of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings epics, we enter the theater justifiably expecting his new Tolkien adventure to thrill our socks off," says Colin Covert at the Star Tribune.
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