Aidan the Aspie Critic: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Welcome to another movie review! I just finished reading the Hobbit book with my Mom and brother. It only took us a bit over a year! Anyway, since we read the book, we wanted to watch the Hobbit movies. We were going to watch the old animated Hobbit movie, but we couldn't find it in good quality, so we watched the Peter Jackson one instead. This is The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey!

The first movie is about a young Hobbit named Bilbo. One day, a wizard named Gandalf and 13 dwarves come to visit. They tell Bilbo that a big dragon named Smaug took all their gold and the orcs ran them out of their kingdom. They told Bilbo they needed his help to get back the treasure and the Arkenstone to kill Smaug and the orcs and take back their kingdom. Bilbo said yes, because he didn't have anything better to do. This sets them off on an epic adventure! Will Bilbo and his friends survive the journey to the Lonely Mountain? Will they get their treasure back? Will this be worth being split up into 3 films!? Watch The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey to find out!

This movie was awesome, but not great. It doesn't follow the book that well, and it heavily touches upon things in the book that were barely explained in a sentence! There were lots of characters and events in the movie that weren't in the book at all! They were only added in to tie the movie in with The Lord of The Rings films better. The orcs were annoying, obnoxious, and pointless. They were just a bad addition. It was a lot more violent and "epic" than was necessary. However, the special effects and cinematography were great. You can always count on Peter Jackson to give us some amazing visuals! He's a brilliant director! The performances are great as well! Overall, this is a movie that is worth your time, but fans of the book will not like it, and if you are going to watch it, read the book or watch the old animated version first. Not great, but still good! I'd give this movie 3.5 stars out of 5. An awesome adventure that you will not soon forget!

Have you seen The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey? What did you think of it? Tell me in the comments!