Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

The Hobbit:

This movie is a great animation and deserves five stars. It went along well with the book , and it is great for you and your family. The enemies in this animation are trolls , goblins , wargs (wolves), a nasty Gollum creature , giant spiders , and a dragon called Smaug. And for the heroes in this great animated film are elves , dwarves , men , a wizard named Gandalf , and a hobbit named Bilbo Baggins. The Hobbit animated film is about the wizard Gandalf , the hobbit Bilbo Baggins , who did not like... more info

Four stars for story, minus one for quality...:

Any fantasy fan worth his or her salt has read Tolkien's masterpiece, starting with "The Hobbit." Rankin-Bass does a passable movie adaptation, but I'm also doing a review of the DVD as well.

Bilbo Baggins is a mild-mannered little hobbit living unobtrusively in Bag End, a conventional hobbit-hole in the comfortably boring Shire. His life is abruptly turned upside-down when the mysterious wizard Gandalf arrives, along with thirteen dwarves (who proceed to take over Bilbo's home). That evening, they reveal... more info

Excellent movie; terrible audio:

If it weren't for some issues I had with the audio on this DVD (which I'll get to), I'd be giving "The Hobbit" at least 4.5 stars, which would round up to 5 in any event. This is a fabulous adaptation of the book. Though a few plot elements were necessarily left out, what remains is faithful to the story. The voice actors are top notch. Sometimes while reading the books, I still can't help but imagine John Huston as Gandalf, Orson Bean as Bilbo, and Brother Theodore as Gollum. I'm a big fan of the music of... more info

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