The Hobbit-an unexpected journey(2012) is the first part of the Peter Jackson’s directed film trilogy. The trilogy is based on J.R.R Tolkien’s fantasy novel. This movie trilogy is about the time before The lord of the rings movies. The next parts of the trilogy are The desolation of Smaug and The battle of the five armies.
The movie starts when Gandalf (Ian McKellen) asks a hobbit named Bilbo Baggins(Martin Freeman) to join him on his adventure with 13 dwarfs. Their plan is to go through the Middle Earth to take back the Lonely Mountain from the dragon Smaug. The leader of their group is Thorin Oakenshield(Richard Armitage) whose grandfather Thorir used to be the dwarf king in the Lonely Mountain before the Smaug came so now Thorin wants to take back his legacy. In the beginning when Gandalf is trying to get Bilbo on the adventure he is throwing a party inviting all the 13 dwarfs to Bilbo’s home and Bilbo ins’t very exited about it but however changes his mind and decides to go on an adventure. In the beginning of their journey they had to fight against three trolls and found some swords from the troll’s cave. After that they met a wizard Radgast the Brown in the woods and the orcs attackted them with wargs. Radgast helped the group to escape from the orcs to Rivendell where the elf Lord Elrond helped them to read a map of the Lonely Mountain. Next the group continued their journey to Misty Mountains without Gandalf and got caught by goblins. The goblins took them to their leader the Great Goblin and Thorin founds out that an orc war-chief Azog who had killed his grandfather Thorir is alive even Thorin cut his other forearm in that battle outside of the dwarfs kindom of Moria and now his after their group. As the group got caught by the goblins Bilbo got separated from them and met Gollum. Gollum accidentally dropped his golden ring and Bilbo took it without Gollum noticing it. Later Gandalf came to rescue the group from the goblins and Bilbo rejoined the group. As they continued the journey they got ambushed by Azog and his orc army, Thorin attakced Azog and got knocked out. Bilbo rescued Thorin from Azog and the entire group was saved by the eagles.
From my opinion as a fantasy movie liker the movie was good and as good as The lord of the rings movies which I have seen many times before. But if you don’t like fantasy movies or The lord of the rings movies you probably would not like this movie and you may consider it boring because of it’s length. Only negative thing that I have to say about the movie is it’s simple plot but because its a trilogy I think it is okay cause the whole story actually ends in the final movie. So I would give the movie a school grade eight.