Kotaku: "Like Lord of the Rings before it, Hobbit is a long, bloated affair, more concerned with grandiose spectacle than nonsense like 'flow' or 'pacing.' But it's captivating nonetheless, a thrill ride of a movie stuffed with orcs, trolls, goblins, and other nasty Middle-Earthian buggers that need to be hacked and slashed up in as many ways as possible." (Cinema, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey) -