A good movie

I already saw this movie, I even saw it in the movie theater when it was released, but since I just bought an awesome brand new TV, I thought I might as well check it out again. On top of that, I just bought the Extended edition on Blu-ray. Honestly, the first time around, I was already rather skeptical about this flick. Indeed, while most of us were happy that Peter Jackson managed to make 3 movies for the LOTR trilogy (a bold move at the time), we also dreaded the fact that he decided to make also 3 movies from ‘The Hobbit’ which is, in contrary to 'The Lord of the Rings', a rather modest book. Furthermore, the more I thought about the first installment, the more I thought that my rating was too generous. Still, this sequel turned out to be quite a spectacle after all. The first positive thing is that I really enjoyed the 3D HFR version (in IMAX). The year before, I wasn’t sure about this technique but, this time, it looked just gorgeous . Concerning the story, it was still fairly entertaining but, unfortunately, it had become quite obvious that this trilogy will never reach the epicness of the LOTR. The first issue was that everything had a feeling of déjà vu and most of what they came across (the spiders, the hidden door, the elf city,…) was already displayed in the previous trilogy. Furthermore, the fellowship with humans, elves, dwarves and hobbits was just awesome, whereas this company of dwarves was fairly entertaining but not really charismatic. On the other hand, in my opinion, Tauriel was a nice addition and her romantic angle with Kili didn’t bother me like so many other viewers. Furthermore, Middle Earth is still a fascinating world and I’m obviously a huge fan. Anyway, to conclude, I have to confess it, my rating for this movie was too generous and I had to lower it after watching this movie a couple of times but I still think it is a solid fantasy feature and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you like the genre.