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Bilbo Baggins, Gandalf the Grey, and thirteen Dwarves, led by Thorin Oakenshield, continue on their epic quest to reclaim the Lonely Mountain and the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor. Still being chased by Orcs, Gandalf leads the expedition to a cabin inhabited by a skin shifter named Beorn who has the ability of transforming himself into a large bear. The men seek shelter for the night while Beorn guards his property from the Orcs. The next morning, the group requests assistance from Beorn to continue on, unfortunately Beorn hates dwarves. He reluctantly agrees to help, because he hates Orcs even more.
 
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Gandalf leads the team to the black forest of Mirkwood, a mysterious place filled with giant spiders and the ability to make whoever enters hallucinate. Ganfalf senses an impending matter that needs his immediate attention, so he leaves the men during their passage through Mirkwood. Bilbo and the dwarves begin to feel the mental effects of the forest and eventually become lost. Trying the find their way, Bilbo climbs a tree to see where they are on their path, but returns to the entire party captured by spiders. Bilbo uses the magical ring he found in Gollum's cave to become invisible. He rescues his friends from the clutches of the spiders, but then the team is captured by the Wood-Elves who throw all, but a still invisible Bilbo in their dungeons. After a daring escape in barrels down a river, the group meets a man from Lake-town who can ferry them close to the Lonely Mountain.

Meanwhile Gandalf makes a horrific discovery that will spread evil throughout the lands of Middle Earth. Can Bilbo and the Dwarves defeat the treacherous Smaug and will Gandalf be able to warn the people of the land of a more destructive force than the fire breathing dragon?

Let me start my review in saying that I loved the Lord of the Rings trilogy. I own all three extended editions in my video library. When An Unexpected Journey came out, I was really excited to see it, but I left the theater absolutely bored. I felt that there was too much set up and frivolous over explanations of the plot and mythology of the characters. But I'm a smart guy and I do realize that the first movie of pretty much any trilogy is normally the set up movie and that action and quick moving of the plot will pick up in the sequel. Prime example is The Hunger Games. While I didn't really care for the first movie, I really enjoyed Catching Fire and now I can't wait for Mockingjay. I went into my viewing of  The Desolation of Smaug being very optimistic that I'd see some epic battles with spiders and orcs and finally get to see how bad ass the dragon is. Unfortunately I left feeling that I just spent almost threes hours in a boring lecture about the history of Middle Earth. To me the entire trilogy is turning out to be one big Peter Jackson nerd porno for fanboys to masturbate to. It once again over explains a simple plot and fills it with too much back story, plus adds additional characters and bonus fan fiction.

I think the problem with the trilogy thus far is that Warner Brothers has given Peter Jackson free reign to do whatever he wants since they know the movies will make money, especially since franchises like Harry Potter and Batman are no longer around as annual cash cows for the studio. So instead of a really cool three hour adventure flick, a simple three hundred page book is literally being transposed nearly verbatim page by page on the silver screen. I am not one of those people that worship the writings of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien like a born again Christian studies the King James version of the Bible, so to me I feel like I am being bombarded by overkill. I am a believer in sometimes simple is better and less is more.

Now before is get a ton of hateful comments and death threats, let me say that The Desolation of Smaug is still a gorgeous movie to watch that's filled with fantastic digital effects, cool make-up and costumes, and great acting performances. Peter Jackson once again with his literal translation of the book makes you feel like you are an inhabitant of Middle Earth as Bilbo and company take their dangerous stroll towards the Lonely Mountain. Ian McKellen as always is great as the Wizard Gandalf, but you figure he's been doing it for over twelve years, so you think he better have the part nailed down by now. The dwarves with their goofy names and characteristics remind me of the seven vertically challenged diamond miners that save Snow White. Each one offers their own unique personality and strength to the party like courage, wisdom, fortitude, and leadership.

Who really stands above everyone in the cast is Martin Freeman as Bilbo Baggins, the Hobbit that the story is about. This is his continuing story of how he started off as a simple person and metamorphosizes into an adventurer. In this movie Freeman is drastically changing his character, attitude, and physical appearance as the effects of the one true ring that he found in Gollum's cave are starting to corrupt him. He no longer just relies on his quick wits and humor to get him out of a sticky situation. He is now quick with a sword to defend his friends, but at times has an evil grin that sort of implies that he enjoys killing now. He shows his anger and greed as if he has been tempted by Emperor Palpatine and Darth Vader to join the dark side of the Force. He is no longer the halfling content to minding his own business in the Shire.

There are some pretty good sequences in the film that unfortunately just come and go. The fight with the spiders in the black forest of Mirkwood is pretty gruesome. If you are deathly afraid of spiders, you're gonna want to cover your eyes during this segment. The best scene in the entire movie is the barrel escape from the Wood-elves dungeon. The dwarves float down a river trying to avoid being ambushed by the marauding Orcs. The fighting is extremely well choreographed and of course it's filled with Orlando Bloom as the elf Legolas kicking a lot of Orc ass. In an almost three hour movie, these two scenes only make up roughly thirty minutes.

The most anticipated moment of the entire movie is the appearance of Smaug voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch. He looked great, but in all honesty, the dragon could have been voiced by anyone. As cool and wicked as I thought the voice was with its deep bass and ominous roar, it was so over modulated it was nearly unrecognizable in the same manner has Hugo Weaving's voice was as Megatron in the Transformers movie. Of course BBC fans of Sherlock will be giddy in their seats because Martin Freeman and  Benedict Cumberbatch will both share screen time. The digital effects of the dragon were pretty impressive, but Bilbo's interaction with him were mostly dialogue. Smaug was like a Jame Bond villain monologuing before the Hobbit about the inevitability of everyone's doom and the futility of ever reclaiming the mountain kingdom. For a movie about finally reaching Smaug, it takes two hours before you even see the dragon on screen.

I viewed the film in 3D, but not the high frame rate. I am actually happy about that because I thought the high frame rate was too crystal clear in the first movie that I found it distracting. In the high frame rate you can really notice the imperfections of effects and the merging of computer generated and live action shots. To be honest, I don't think The Desolation Of Smaug really took advantage of the 3D as I had hoped. For those already tired of 3D, you're not going to loose out on a 2D experience unless you really want to see giant flying bumblebees.

I was completely lukewarm with An Unexpected Journey and that feeling continues with The Desolation Of Smaug. I was not blown away with the presentation as a whole and felt completely unfulfilled at the abrupt ending to the film.  I do enjoy epic adventure films like the original Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Chronicles of Narnia movies, but I literally caught myself dozing off a couple of times like I was in one of my old college lecture halls. For those who want to know every minute detail of Tolkien's universe, The Desolation of Smaug will overload you with an overkill of them. If you a huge fan of the book, chances are you'll love the second film, but it's not a guarantee. Unfortunately an average movie goer with no personal stake in the franchise will be completely bored like someone forced to sit in an insurance seminar.