Hobbit, The: An Unexpected Journey (Blu-ray)

Starring: Sir Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman, Richard Armitage, et al.

No Synopsis Available.

• Format: Blu-ray
• UPC: 883929376599
• Release Date: January 1
• Rating: PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned)
• Publisher: WarnerBrothers
• Director: Peter Jackson
• Starring: Sir Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman, Richard Armitage, James Nesbitt, Ken Stott, Sylvester McCoy, Barry Humphries, Cate Blanchett, Ian Holm, Christopher Lee
• Number of Disks: 3
• Other Video Info: ntsc
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Nothing less than expected from “There and Back Again”.

Gandalf visits Young Bilbo. He is invited on an adventure as he is very adventurous (for a Hobbit). After declining the offer, he will be visited by a variety of characters and is coerced into a life of a burglar. Will he survive this life, and will we after going on the journey with them? Watch and find out. This is the beginning of “There and Back Again,” not worth viewing until you have the complete story in hand. The story starts with a token view of our original beloved characters by the original actors. An observation is that the story starts excruciatingly slow and takes a good chunk of time to get off the ground. Yet this may be on purpose; as with any movie, it is best to introduce the characters about to take the journey and their Hobbits… Oops, their habits. For people that are interested in technology as much as the story presented, it may be premature to purchase anything for a while until all the different versions are sorted out. We already have Blu-ray and digital. And by the time you find this review, probably 3D so we can watch a lame rabbit sled. Then there is the denser version of Blu-ray, probably another try of smell-o-vision, seat bottom vibrations, interactive conversations, etc. Avoid using rental services as they are using the crippled (missing all the DVD extras) rental version of the DVD. I can easily go two ways on this presentation. First, it tries to fit the general feel of the LOTR movies and the “Hobbit” book, which is different. So, this is more of a LOTR prequel. Having a lot of the same actors helped with consistency; as always, we must have new actors, yet that splits the viewers into the two camps of one is following the story and the other’s saying this is not the same actors (good or bad). I suggest that it is worth a viewing to decide for yourself. I am glad to have had a chance at seeing this now and will again later after the second half is finished.