On home entertainment, the film has taken in around $100+ million worldwide on DVD and Blu-ray (with those lovely high profit margins the studios love). The first Hobbit, despite a parade of reviews and press doing their best to convince audiences to stay away, was the second-highest-grossing of the Tolkien franchise so far, grossing more than $1 billion and earning a CinemaScore of A from viewers. Will that translate into box office success? Let's be serious for a moment - there are few rational people who entertain the notion this film won't be a box office success, so it's just a matter of how big of a success we're talking about. Likewise, the faster pace and shorter run time addresses two of the primary - if misplaced, in my opinion - complaints about the previous movie. The similar approach to Jackson's previous series of films should appeal to those who felt the first Hobbit movie contrasted too much with the serious, darker style of The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien's famous book The Hobbit as well as the detailed appendices in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, the prequel trilogy, The Desolation of Smaug feels more like a piece of the The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, with an overall darker tone and sense of malevolence threatening all around, but doesn't lose the humor or frequent whimsical feel to much of Bilbo's journey and his relationship with the dwarves. And of course, there be dragons! Well, there be a dragon - but he's more than enough.īased on J.
Jackson's second entry in the prequel trilogy opening in theaters this month, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, continues that cinematic success with a thrilling, fun adaptation that moves faster, takes less time, and provides a great deal more story progression. My review of director Peter Jackson's 2012 film The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - a prequel to the blockbuster Lord of the Rings franchise - declared that film a big, bold, beautiful triumph that exceeded expectations.
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