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| Cornered and nowhere to run, this is the perfect place to keep audiences hanging another year. |
Harsh criticisms such as overindulgences and cheap marketing ploys have been thrown around the film circles a bit too much regarding Peter Jackson's return to Middle-Earth in nearly a decade. Sure, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey only covers 1/3 of a 300-page children's book, leaving audiences hanging for two more 3-hour sequels, but there's nothing wrong than building up a little anticipation. Not at all.
In the first leg of this three-movie trek, Bilbo Baggins
(Martin Freeman) sets out from his comfortable hobbit hole in the midst of the
Shire's green pastures to join 13 dwarves who have been displaced by a dragon plundering their mountain stronghold.
For those joining the adventures of fantastical Middle-Earth for the very first
time should know that along the way, birds, beasts and a gangly creature called
Gollum are obstacles in the way of reclaiming the Lonely Mountain.