The Hobbit:The Desolation of Smaug

The Hobbit :The Desolation of Smaug 

The Hobbit is a series of three epic fantasy adventure films directed, produced, and adapted to film by Peter Jackson, based on J. R. R. Tolkien's 1937 fantasy novel, The Hobbit. The films are, by subtitle, An Unexpected Journey (2012), The Desolation of Smaug (2013), and There and Back Again (2014). Just as Tolkien's three-volume novel, The Lord of the Rings, continues themes and issues introduced in The Hobbit, Jackson's three Hobbit films together are imagined as a prequel to Jackson's earlier film adaptation of The Lord of the Rings.

Now Storyline..as usual Like any series it starts with same plot.Set in the fictional world of Middle-earth, the three films follow the hobbit Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman), chosen by the wizard Gandalf (McKellen), to accompany thirteen dwarves led by Thorin Oakenshield (Richard Armitage) on a quest to reclaim the Lonely Mountain from the dragon Smaug (Benedict Cumberbatch).Thia is 156 Minutes long movie but those who can immerse in fantasy of J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy land for them time flies..and thanks to great sets and equally great Camera works, which sets kind of new benchmark.Mostly book provides excellant Charecters but Jackson’s seemingly sacrilegious addition of the elf Legolas (Orlando Bloom) a character from “The Lord of the Rings” who appears nowhere in Tolkien’s “The Hobbit” - feels velvety good. So does the outright invention of a female elf character named Tauriel (Evangeline Lilly), a sort of inferior version of Lara Croft who’s nowhere in any of the books.But The sexing up of Tolkien’s text somehow works, and only nitpickers should object.It also helps that “Smaug” starts with a bang, keeping up the action with such intensity that you won’t have time to quibble about details. Instead of wasting half the movie, as the first one did, stuck in a claustrophobic hobbit-hole with a bunch of drunken dwarves, “Smaug” opens with a pulse-pounding  chase scene. Mere seconds in, we watch a pack of bloodthirsty orcs pursue our hobbit hero and his dwarf companions over the Misty Mountains — where, as you will recall, we last left them — to the home of Beorn (Mikael Persbrandt), a shape-shifter who first appears in the form of a giant bear.After essential discussion with Beron dwarfs moves on mission. 

First, the company of dwarfs must pass through the enchanted forest of Mirkwood, where they tussle with giant CGI spiders. Next, they’re imprisoned in the stronghold of the woodland elves.Their escape - in barrels carried by churning river rapids - is one of the movie’s great action sequences, and it looks simply sensational in 3-D. Unlike the orcs in The Lord of the Rings trilogy who wore full-body makeup and prosthetics, many of those in The Hobbit have computer-generated faces,Which purist may not like. It all felt more like a theater play, than a film. The sets, the way it was filmed and the music, all made it feel like you were just there.

So, viewed as an independent work, is this a good movie? Technically it is brilliant, full of detail that can only be appreciated on the big screen. Smaug is, hands down, the best-designed movie dragon the world has yet seen. If I were a teenager this wealth of fantasy action would probably have exited me no end.so fasten your seat belt and enjoy ride in lonely and lovely mountain !!