I don't think anyone expected this movie to be taut, a quality the Lord of the Rings movies had in spades. On the one hand, audiences were excited to see it because of course we want more Hobbit we were, frankly, willing to take whatever small taste of Middle Earth we could get, whether or not it was as good as the first three times around.īut, on the other, the failures of An Unexpected Journey made people's guesses about how good Desolation would be to dip sharply. Fans of Lord of the Rings who disliked The Hobbit weren't angry that director Peter Jackson was failing to deliver on "the potential he'd shown earlier"-the Lord of the Rings films had delivered that potential.Īll of this meant that expectations for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (which I'm calling Desolation for the rest of this review, both for length reasons and because it sounds cool) were, at best, confused. Which makes it so much weirder that An Unexpected Journey was made almost 11 years after the first Lord of the Rings movie was released.
Martin Freeman in 'The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug'
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