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DETROIT, MI – I have been a lifelong fan of J. R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy world of Middle Earth. I got my first introduction from the Rankin Bass cartoon, “The Hobbit” back in the 1970’s and then furthered my education through the animated film, “The Lord of the Rings” by Ralph Bakshi. This world is vast and New Line Cinema along with director Peter Jackson decided to give us the definitive experience. I say that with confidence because I do not wish to see this entire mythology upgraded, or “freshened up” in the Hollywood sense five or even ten years for now. I got it. Middle Earth, hobbits and great wars aside – I like the product they have come up with. The whole Spiderman franchise suffers from constant re-invention in a way that becomes bothersome and tedious on the brain. I just hope the producers and the Tolkien’s estate are happy with the results. I am quite satisfied.

The word I heard was that the Tolkien estate said, “No more films”. After seeing the, “Battle of the Five Armies” I kind of wish to see a filmic take on, “The Silmarillion”. Before I get too deep in this review let me tell you simply that I liked this film – immensely. It was a lot better than I thought it was going to be. There are a lot of background pieces of information that were inserted into the film so that that whole series could sustain three separate movies. A lot of the back story was written at the end of, “Return of the King” in a series of notes by Tolkien. These fill in the gaps and explain about the great wars concerning orcs, the Witch King of Angmar, and the elves. This is geek fare but it is essential to the mythology.

The first thing I am hearing from people is that this is CGI overkill. There are a lot of characters in this last part of the trilogy of, “The Hobbit” so they are necessary. I didn’t mind all of the busyness of the characters and didn’t think they took anything away from the story whatsoever. The orchestration of characters, interactions, and melee didn’t detract anything away from the story. Things were kept in a forward motion and it was complimentary to the story and had a refreshing pace. This wasn’t the case in the last thirty minutes of the previous film, “The Desolation of Smaug” which featured a bizarre gold smelting sequence that seemed like digital filler. I am referring to the scene where a multi storied gold dwarf was constructed out of liquid gold only to be torn apart minutes later. I walked out of that screening with a massive headache and really didn’t care if I ever saw the final installment or not. That was digital overkill. But this last chapter doesn’t have any of that…. Really.

I caught the final chapter in a thing called, “The Hobbit Marathon” and selected theaters showed all three Hobbit movies in one shot. That was a long day and it started around noon at the AMC IMAX. For the price you get a flashy wearable Hobbit pass that you can wear around your neck. You also get a nice poster of Thorin Oakenshield and the elves for your man cave. I expected this to be filled with fantasy geeks only but this series attracted a wide range of people. What’s amazing is that they all stayed for the entire thing. We were cooped up in the theater for over nine hours.

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