The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

2013 • 161 minutes
4.5
15.5K reviews
75%
Tomatometer
PG-13
Rating
Eligible
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About this movie

Academy Award® winner Peter Jackson continues his Middle-earth adventure following Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) who's swept into an epic quest to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor from the fearsome dragon Smaug. In the company of thirteen dwarves and the wizard Gandalf the Grey (Ian McKellen), Bilbo enters the Lonely Mountain in possession of Gollum's "precious" ring and his keen blade, Sting. With an all-star cast and the effects wizardry of Jackson's award-winning Weta Workshop, Tolkien's epic story comes to life as never before imagined.
Rating
PG-13

Ratings and reviews

4.5
15.5K reviews
Matt G
March 29, 2014
Over long and poorly paced. Action scenes are epic but with little reason to care or believe them. Smaug has more gold than 3 Earth's worth. While he looks cool... the scenes with him are dragged through ridiculous setpiece after another. Hard to believe the same Director made these as LOR. Watch with lowered expectations... which u should have if you watched the first film.
11 people found this review helpful
A Google user
July 26, 2014
Once again, this movie carries on in the same style as the other Tolkien based movies. The story is epic, too epic, and the constant "near misses" and "barely survived that" continue ad nauseum. The problem with this series is that the movies constantly remind me they are just movies. Other movie draw me in, make me imagine mm myself in their world; not these. I am constantly reminded that they are trying to drag this story out as long as possible and try to make each movie more grandiose, please end it.
4 people found this review helpful
Jason Desrosiers
March 26, 2014
I have no issues with the movie. My issue is Google. I can't stream this from my phone to my TV without buying chrome cast which is not available in Canada. Why would anyone want to start a digital collection that you can only watch on your phone? Google either need to make an app or make it work with all share. Just proof that illegal is better I guess. Could have saved myself the money and watched it on my TV . I would also like to point out that movies purchased through Samsung hub can stream
94 people found this review helpful