In the first part of the trilogy about Middle-earth once squad gnomes Thorin Oakenshield, led (Richard Armitage) and the wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellen) and almost no losses even with the purchase of a hobbit Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) malicious ringlet, granting invisibility, overcame the Misty Mountains. Feuds were left behind, and the whole company moved on to the Lonely Mountain to win the dragon Smaug Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor, and at the same time return the sickly diamond Arkenstone, allowing Thorin proclaimed himself king under the mountain.
Before the writers got a trivial task - to stretch the remaining 100 pages of a children's book at 6:00 of cinematic time. The task was brilliantly failed. The creators of the second part of the epic about the hobbit was almost impossible - to do one hundred percent unbearably tedious action and forget about the main character in the first two-thirds of the film. Lack of imagination of Tolkien generously compensated with new storylines - a kind of scenario remakes from which did not immediately know what to do, whether to laugh or cry. Children's tale is clearly not enough sex and violence, for which he clung Jackson, filling time and narrative gaps. As a result, we are able to observe the course of the film semantic paradoxes such as the Elven-gnome love triangle and boring forty-minute running from a dragon.
Strange, but if you break the second part of "The Hobbit" at the details, it looks decent. Spiders are very scary, very beautiful elves, jokes sometimes successful, references to the "Lord of the Rings" is quite relevant (which is only a question of contempt Legolas dwarf Gloin about the medallion portraits: "This is your brother?" - "This is my wife and my little son Gimli "). Not really traced in Tolkien's characters in the film take on the character and history. Off-scale dynamics (especially in the first half of action) holds in a pleasant suspense - the truth, until one realizes that in this scenario, all the characters were supposed to die in the first 15 minutes.
But when all these races in barrels, pautinovye fighting, mixed elves zamaterevshy Legolas (Bloom meter is covered with a layer of makeup, but youth, alas, will not be returned), Stephen Fry in the form of the infamous mayor, half-forgotten, but charming Hobbit, Gandalf, already employs more than important things coming battle for Middle Earth, formed in one picture, it appears that fragments of random and just do not fit together.
The first part of the trilogy was a kind of black box. With the epic scale of "Lord of the Rings" and at the same time disarming ease children's fairy tale, the previous film tells the story after the "how it all happened." While the "wasteland Smaug" already without further ado simply brings down on the viewer flow directing fantasy, prancing around in a mad dance of familiar characters. Look at it, maybe it would be interesting to, if at some point it became not so tiring.
In rolling out the film in all possible formats, including 35mm. Of course, distributors expect him to record charges that are likely to be so. Let's be honest: on "The Hobbit" we walk is not for the thin screenplay, operator finds and perfect her acting, but for another loophole in Middle-earth, which once seemed hopelessly closed to us with the last page of the book.