drink Red Bull before you go, and save your popcorn for the end

[rosamicula]

Well, the shocking news is that Hobbit 2: Desperation of Smeg is much, much better than Hobbit 1:Some Short Fat Ugly People get Chased About by Some Tall fat Ugly People. It took me a whole ninety minutes before I got bored, and the remaining three hundred and fifty minutes were still nowhere near as dull as the last film

Comments

[revonrut]

I love the Tolkien trilogy, for apparently the same reason so many hate it, Tolkien's writing style. And because everyone's mental picture of Middle Earth is different from everyone else's, any attempt at bringing it to the silver screen is going to disappoint. If it was me, for example, I'd have an all-Led-Zeppelin soundtrack.#pothead

[ms_siobhan]

'abysmal folk' - I wasn't aware there was any other kind.

[lblanchard]

*sigh*

You're probably right, and the elves insinuated into the plot would have gotten on my last nerve had I not had ham sandwiches and an entranced grand-daughter to placate me. As it was...willing suspension of disbelief goes pretty far. As for Smaug -- I was too fascinated with the "is there a Cumberbatch under all that audio wizardry?" question to get bored.

[rosamicula]

Old Cucumberpatch definitely does the best acting turn in it, I think, (though Thingy who plays Bilbo is really good, too) but once he'd rippled out of the pile of gold, and juddered a bit I got bored. It was like watching a really flash music video without any music.

[lblanchard]

Thingy-who-plays-Bilbo is Martin Freeman, and I think he's very good indeed -- both in this and as Watson to Bandersnatch's Sherlock.

[randomstring]

"'You can be hairy, smelly and ill-shaped but if you talk some syrup about your mum and are mildly amusing, high-achieving hot chicks will fall for you' is not a helpful message for this film's target audience, really. "

A winning comment :)

[poliphilo]

Lovely, funny review. Thank you for seeing it so I don't have to.