(READ: Corliss’s review of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey) An underfed foot soldier’s grumbling view of war, rendered as fantasy with the addition of wizards and monsters, An Unexpected Journey was a handsome, academic picturizing of the Tolkien book’s first 100 pages. But in following Bilbo’s journey with Gandalf (Ian McKellen) and the dwarves to reclaim the Lonely Mountain they had lost, it was also dedicated to the proposition that any long walk requires a lot of trudging. The first movie did allow Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) a creepy-lovely encounter with Gollum (Andy Serkis). Tolkien’s 1937 novel The Hobbit will be livelier, ruder and less slavishly faithful to its source than last year’s initial episode, An Unexpected Journey. Jackson may not actually wink at the audience, but his fleeting presence in the opening scene of The Desolation of Smaug seems to announce that this second of three film adaptations of J.R.R. Peter Jackson, the directorial lord of The Lord of the Rings, the man who made a habit of Hobbits, has granted himself a Hitchcockian cameo appearance. Peter Jackson's middle episode of his Middle Earth saga revs up the action, the peril and the wonderĪ heavyset man of gross demeanor lurches out of an inn, gnawing a meat bone, and a chuckle of surprise runs through the audience. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug: It Lives!
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