Hobbit : An Unexpected Journey(3D 24fps version) review- A tiresome journey but is watchable

**1/2

The hobbit is a roughly 300 pages novel and Peter Jackson(Lord Of the Rings Trilogy) decide to "stretch" it to a 9 hr journey. The book cannot be compared to LOTR trilogy, as the latter has more characters and plot point to cover 9 hrs but the former is a children fable of good vs evil.

The tale is simple. Bilbo Baggings (Martin Freeman) helps a band of 13 dwarves to reclaim their home from the dragon Smaug. He is helped by the wizard Gandalf the grey (Ian Mckellen). In the journey they encounter trolls, wargs, orcs and goblins and also Gollum and his precious.

As noted earlier the journey is tiresome and it took an hour to begin it. The new characters are mostly one note and the dwarves are interchangeable (except for Thorin).

Going to technical presentation, the film was shot in 3D and with the intention of 48 frames per second but Ahmedabad does not have a single theatre equipped so that it could show it at a higher frame speed so I have to be content with the normal speed. The 3D was brilliant and was one of the better use of the third dimension(the best is Hugo and Life Of Pi).

The film is a must for the fans of middle earth, for the rest they can skip it.