The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Review

The classic book is known to millions worldwide. It starts out at a peaceful and happy time in middle-earth, or so many believe until the word that a necromancer is on the rise. This is when a band of 13 dwarves and the all famous Gandalf the Grey come knocking on Bilbo Baggins’ door. They ask this meek, comfort-loving hobbit to leave his peaceful home in the Shire behind and join them on a dangerous quest to reclaim their homeland which was taken from them long ago by a monstrous dragon by the name of Smaug.

I could not believe how amazing the director Peter Jackson did on the movie The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. I, of course, had watched all of the Lord of the Rings movies hundreds of times with my brother, dad, and friends and couldn’t get enough of them. But when I heard they would be coming out with a Hobbit movie, I was ecstatic. I had of course read the book and knew what the movie was going to be about, but I was curious on how they would fit that book into one movie because it was so extensive and pretty much every part of the book was important to the plot. That’s when I found out they were making it into a trilogy and I was over the top excited.

The Hobbit movie runs for a full 160 minutes where you would think you might get a slight bit bored at the beginning based on the book for the first hour but surprises you with a whole mix of emotions and scenes that will make you laugh, feel sympathetic, and heroic. The first hour includes an amusing invasion of the dwarves into Bilbo’s home and their song and slapstick dinner. Then makes you feel sympathy for the poor dwarves as they unravel the story of their home being taken.

After long thought, the next morning Bilbo races after the dwarves to join the pack and act as their burglar against mighty Smaug. Once the quest begins, you are thrown into a relentless series of chase and action scenes, from hungry trolls to the magnificent city of Rivendell to the fateful encounter with Gollum to get the ring.

All of these amazing and important scenes add up to a pretty well done movie overall. I was overly thrilled to finally be back in middle earth again and I am eagerly awaiting to see the next two parts of the epic trilogy.