The Hobbit trilogy is a prequel to the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Or at least, the films are a trilogy. The original is a small children's book. Each book of LotR is individually longer than the entirety of The Hobbit, yet somehow, The Hobbit needs the same amount of screen time as the whole of LotR. This means that each film of the trilogy equates to roughly 100 pages of text in the book(and not very big pages, either). For comparison, the Harry Potter series has 4195/8 = 524.375 pages of text per film, despite the unnecessary book-splitting of Deathly Hallows. So, yeah, the Hobbit could have certainly been one movie without many omissions. Hmmm... with all the ranting and math I forgot to talk about the actual film. Oh, well, I'll do it when I review the next one.
5/6
Warning: This movie is the first in an unnecessary trilogy. If you are offended by the unnecessary splitting of short books into multiple movies, do not watch this film. Actually, probably still watch it, because, come on, it's Tolkien.
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