The Hobbit was sadly a disappointment, I fully realize that it was meant to be a children's tale, but Middle-Earth no longer seemed believable to me as the book and the Lord of the Rings. Almost all of the goblins looked the same, the Goblin king looked like something from an online video game, Radagast looked like something from Endor in Starwars. He was supposed to look like a brown covered wizard, like Gandalf, and frankly he looked like Miracle Max on a sleigh pulled by rabbits. Azog the Great from the Battle of Moria comes back after seemingly surviving a major injury that chops of his hand (like Sauron strangely enough) and he too did not look half as believable as Lurtz. The only dwarf costume that I liked was Thorin, who looked like a dwarf from LOTR, while the rest of the company looked like trading cards figures. The visual effects were amazing, not all of the design, I was stunned however by Erebor, the elvish armor, the Battle of Moria, and the pinnacle of the entire movie is in my opinion, the Riddles in the Dark. I will never stop singing praises of this scene, it almost made up for the rest of the movie. Gollum was unbelievably believably and I started to wonder if Bilbo was not CGI. They nailed it. Much more could be said, but the movie to my taste was everything I feared it might be.

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