'The Hobbit' is an Truly Unexpected Journey

Hold onto your hats, kids; we're heading to Middle Earth again with Peter Jackson and company.

After years of waiting it's finally coming to theaters -- Peter Jackson's "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey." For this and other local movies check Aurora Cineplex and Studio Movie Grill. Bilbo Baggins, a kicked-back, happy-go-lucky Hobbit, joins Gandolf the Grey and 13 dwarves on a dangerous quest to reclaim their homeland and their treasure from Smaug the dragon. The film is a staggering 160 minutes. But unlike any of the "Lord of the Rings" films, it takes about an hour for anything to really get going. Once it does, though, game on, with non-stop chase scenes and action sequences. On the journey they run into every kind of creature imaginable. The problem is, most of them are CGI creations. That was a big misstep, I think. In the "…

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