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Title: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
\nDirected By: Peter Jackson<\/p>\n

Starring: Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen, Richard Armitage, Ken Stott, Graham McTavish, William Kircher, James Nesbitt, Stephen Hunter, Dean O\u2019Gorman, Aidan Turner, John Callen, Peter Hambleton, Jed Brophy, Mark Hadlow, Adam Brown, Ian Holm, Elijah Wood, Hugo Weaving, Cate Blanchett, Christopher Lee, Andy Serkis, Sylvester McCoy, Manu Bennett<\/B><\/p>\n

Peter Jackson does find some success with \u201cThe Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey,\u201d but not as a whole, relegating it to the shadows of the \u201cLord of the Rings\u201d trilogy.<\/p>\n

Dwarves once lived the good life, enjoying a thriving society, but then in came the dragon Smaug, who claimed Erebor for himself, nestling into their mid-mountain pile of gold for a nap and turning the dwarves into a nomadic people. Years later, Gandalf the Grey (Ian McKellen) and a band of 13 dwarves decide it\u2019s time to reclaim the Lonely Mountain, but before they can set out on their adventure, they need one more member for their company \u2013 a burglar and he must be a smart and stealthy hobbit.<\/p>\n

Gandalf recruits the reluctant Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman), a once daring young hobbit who\u2019s now too set in his ways to venture out of The Shire. However, when Bilbo shocks the group – or most of the group \u2013 by opting to tag along, all are thrilled to have a completed team except for their leader, Thorin Oakenshield (Richard Armitage). War-torn and emotionally wounded, his goal to take back Erebor is all-consuming and he\u2019s prepared to plow through treacherous terrain, battle trolls and orcs, and even the notorious Azog (Manu Bennett) to do it.<\/p>\n

Never read J.R.R. Tolkien\u2019s \u201cThe Hobbit?\u201d Don\u2019t you worry; Jackson and co. take getting you up to speed seriously \u2013 very<\/I> seriously. Before even getting to Bilbo\u2019s venture, we get a look at Ian Holm\u2019s post-adventure Bilbo hanging out with Frodo (Elijah Wood), a sequence showing Smaug\u2019s attack on Erebor and a bit during which Thorin goes head-to-head with Azog. While all are well-constructed segments, for those who are just stepping into \u201cThe Hobbit\u201d for the first time, it\u2019s quite a bit to digest, even having seen all three \u201cLord of the Rings\u201d films.<\/p>\n

While things to coalesce once we get to Freeman\u2019s Bilbo being courted by Gandalf, the film breaks down tonally. What starts as a \u201cLord of the Rings\u201d-like representation of Middle-earth, but 60 years earlier, turns into a mindboggling slapstick musical. The dwarf meet-and-greet might have held on strong enough had it not been for an embarrassingly goofy tune about the uptight Bilbo. However, on-screen singing isn\u2019t a total loss in the film. \u201cMisty Mountains (Cold),\u201d which you might remember from the trailers, comes across quite beautifully, bringing back that sentiment of heartache and loss, making for an excellent stepping stone in Bilbo\u2019s transformation from hobbit hole shut-in to reluctant warrior.<\/p>\n

Freeman puts up a wonderfully thoughtful performance, so it\u2019s too bad Bilbo is a one-note character \u2013 or rather two-note, a rigid recluse or a novice fighter feeling out this whole adventure thing for the first time. At first, Bilbo is a happy homemaker to the extreme, nearly socially inept and, not that I\u2019m one to judge, but a total neat freak. Once Bilbo makes the choice to journey on to Erebor, he doesn\u2019t do a complete 180 and turn into some miraculous fighter, rather somewhat blindly feels his way through perilous situations, using his wit as much as he can. Both versions of Bilbo are believable, but it\u2019s one or the other with nothing in between.<\/p>\n

The same is true of the dwarves, which greatly affects a number of the film\u2019s big battle scenes. The dwarves get into trouble and moments before they\u2019re about to lose their lives, Gandalf swoops in and saves the day. Throughout the film, the dwarves are either bumbling or come across as rather skilled fighters, and while that may serve them in the long run of the franchise, building them up as truly unlikely heroes, when looking at \u201cAn Unexpected Journey\u201d alone, they teeter upon being too<\/I> unlikely heroes and that, in turn, makes the material less suspenseful. Rather than fearing the group will get snatched up by goblins while dashing across suspension bridges, you simply sit back and relax as their pudgy little bodies make their way from bridge to bridge, and level to level in wide-shots in a cartoon videogame-like fashion.<\/p>\n

Then again, that\u2019s not to say the visuals of \u201cThe Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey\u201d are subpar in the least. Just like with \u201cLord of the Rings,\u201d Jackson has a downright incredible sense of the Middle-earth landscape. Every single location from The Shire to the core of the Misty Mountains is exceptionally vivid and vivacious. Even when we venture into the darker potions of the mountains, the goblin tunnels, every crack and crevice is as clear as ever, making for a successful 3D environment, 3D glasses or not.<\/p>\n

As for that 3D, even though I continue to wallow in my anti-third dimension misery, adamant that the technology is unnecessary and the same effect can be achieved through proper shot composition, during \u201cAn Unexpected Journey\u201d the 3D is far less distracting because the frame rate is far more so. For stagnant landscape shots, 48 frames per second works wonders, delivering strikingly crisp images, but the moment Jackson either moves the camera or cues a battle sequence, the footage takes on a video-like quality, almost along the lines of a soap opera, and it looks downright awful. Even if you\u2019re eager to appreciate the 48 fps highlights, the fact that a good portion of the film dips down into that strange video-like territory turns the feature into an even more disjointed experience than it already is.<\/p>\n

\u201cAn Unexpected Journey\u201d is not a good film, but that\u2019s on a \u201cLord of the Rings\u201d scale. Had the \u201cLord of the Rings\u201d trilogy not come first, it\u2019d be far easier to accept \u201cThe Hobbit\u201d as a fantastical romp through the woods, cheesy at times, but packed with compelling and vibrant elements. However, that\u2019s not how things played out and it\u2019s absolutely impossible to venture back into Middle-earth without hopes it\u2019ll meet the expectations set by \u201cLord of the Rings,\u201d and considering \u201cAn Unexpected Journey\u201d falls far short, it\u2019ll inevitably endure more flack than it deserves.<\/p>\n

In fact, \u201cThe Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey\u201d even boasts one of the most successful scenes of the year \u2013 an encounter between Bilbo and Gollum (Andy Serkis) in the goblin tunnels. No action, just a conversation, but this single moment is brimming with more laughs and suspense than the rest of the film combined. The motion capture technology used to develop Gollum in the first trilogy was wildly impressive and still is, but here, it\u2019s so realistic you can truly see Serkis in Gollum\u2019s facial expressions.<\/p>\n

While this is a major plus for \u201cAn Unexpected Journey,\u201d yet again, it solidifies the full film as a disappointment. Two thirds of the movie\u2019s bloated running time is so packed with charming characters, stellar visuals and an unparalleled sense of adventure, it makes that other third come across as much more of a failure than it really is. Now the question is, will Jackson be able to make adjustments before releasing the second and third installments of the series? What\u2019s done is done as far as production goes, but with each stage of filmmaking \u2013 writing, shooting, editing \u2013 a new iteration of a piece can be born, so let\u2019s hope Jackson heeds the feedback and makes the necessary changes.<\/p>\n

Technical: B-
\nActing: B+
\nStory: B-
\nOverall: B<\/B><\/p>\n

By Perri Nemiroff<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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