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  Review by Jay ★★★½ 6

  gandalf takes up most of the space on the poster yet all he does is straight up dip from the quest unannounced just before the forest because he doesnt fuck with giant spiders. even in middle earth ian mckellan gives us relatable content

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  Review by COBRARocky ★

  That Go Pro footage is the hardest I've ever been taken out of a film.

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  Review by DirkH ★★★★★ 50

  Like with the first film, I am more than willing to step over creative liberties and narrative flaws because Jackson once again allowed me to spend time in Middle Earth. If you didn't care for the first one, don't torture yourself and stay home. You won't like it. If you don't like drawn out fantasy epics, stay home. You won't like it. If you like Tolkien, thought the first film was flawed but ok, you'll probably have a pretty good time as it is a much smoother ride than the first one. If you're an infantile Tolkien fetishist that loves high fantasy adventure like me, you'll love the everloving crap out of it.

  This unintended trilogy is not an adaptation…

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  Review by eda 🌀 ★★★ 1

  smaug is cute i would pet him

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  Review by eely 🎄 ★★★★

  I love how everyone has their weapons on the poster and gandalf is just smoking weed.

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  Review by Mario 🎄❄️ ★★★★½ 14

  I am fire. I am... death.

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  Review by Mike Ginn ★★★½ 1

  tired: generational violence passed from father to son

  wired: generational adventure passed from uncle to nephew

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  Review by kylie ★★★★★ 1

  idk guys ed sheeran kinda went off with the credits song

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  Review by Mario 🎄❄️ ★★★★½ 26

  Somehow the master of Lake Town reminds me of somebody... a so called "leader" who doesn't give a shit about his people and only thinks of himself and his personal benefit, making fun of others to distract from his own incompetence and corruption. But who could that be?

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  Review by nickusen

  can’t help but think about what Guillermo Del Toro’s movies could have been. 

  I will admit I’m dangerously close to becoming hobbitpilled & convincing myself that these are good, actually. However, I’m 99% certain that’s just a stockholm syndrome situation

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  Review by davidehrlich ★★★★ 2

  excellent, all things considered. stakes & scale can’t match LOTR, but nails world-building & sense of adventure that made those films work. given how production works on these things, it seems foolish to suggest that Jackson learned from the raw material of the first film (which, *woof*), but... who knows. genuinely not responding to this on a curve, but it's his first film not to be at least a little embarrassing since 2003.

  Bilbo comes into his own as a character, the set pieces bristle with style, each location feels at least vaguely alive, and – most crucially – the fading complexion of Middle Earth is palpable. the thing zips by, offers a ton of valuable connective tissue to the LOTR trilogy…

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  Review by Gonzo ★★★ 9

  A Movie A Day 2013: Day 344

  The Good: Two things: the spectacular barrel sequence and Smaug.

  The Bad: Desolation of Smaug is a bloated and exhausting 161 minutes. Dialogue is often eye-rollingly cheesy. Acting is a bit shaky—Lee Pace leads the charge here as the Elven King, hamming it up like he's in a LotR parody. The love triangle between Legolas (Orlando Bloom), Tauriel (Evangeline Lilly), and Kili (Aidan Turner) feels tacked on. Legolas and Tauriel are given many moments to showcase their badassery—and it is cool at first—but all the arrow-shooting and sword-fighting quickly become repetitive and tiresome. Worst of all, the sequel continues the trend of its predecessor of being built on deus ex machina. You could…