【电影简介】

电影《霍比特人：意外之旅》的故事发生在《指环王（魔戒）》三部曲故事的大约60年前，讲述了弗罗多的叔叔比尔博·巴金斯的冒险历程。

壮丽的矮人都市，黄金遍地的孤山伊鲁柏在橡木盾家族的统治下繁荣而安稳，矮人们拥有精湛一流的采矿、冶炼和锻造技术，甚至在大山深处开采出绚丽的阿肯宝石——大山之心。

然而，索尔·橡木盾国王嗜金如命，大量的黄金被堆放在自己的宫殿中，泛滥的财富让他内心逐渐腐化，伊鲁柏的繁荣也逐渐走到了尽头。

一天，来自北方的火龙斯矛戈莅临孤山，矮人军队溃败，伊鲁柏就此沦陷，失去家园的索尔曾考虑过带领矮人们退至古老的矮人王国摩瑞亚，却不料半兽人抢先到达，双方展开恶战，索尔国王不敌亵渎者阿索格被残忍斩首，他的孙子索林挺身而出，危急时刻拾起一块橡木当作盾牌，斩断了阿索格的胳膊，进而带领军队奋勇反击，以惨重的伤亡赢得了胜利，阿索格退回了摩瑞亚，矮人们仍旧无家可归，索林王子也只能忍辱负重，为人类做铁匠以谋取生计。

比尔博·巴金斯是生活在夏尔的一个普通的霍比特人，灰袍巫师甘道夫召集包括索林·橡木盾在内的13个矮人聚集在他的家中，在欢快的晚宴后共同商讨夺回伊鲁柏的事宜，而比尔博·巴金斯则在甘道夫的劝说下最终决定参与到这场冒险历程中。

一行人跨越丛林、草原、山地与河流，路上遭遇巨怪，脱险后又遭到阿索格手下的追杀，途中经过精灵据点瑞文戴尔和妖精哥布尔的深山领地，磨难重重，最终在悬崖边与阿索格团伙狭路相逢，索林·橡木盾险些丧命，比尔博及时出手，避免了悲剧的发生，紧要关头，甘道夫召唤巨鹰前来相助，一行人才逃脱了阿索格的魔爪，黎明到来之时，伊鲁柏在远方的天际熠熠生辉。

【音频文本】

Watching The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is like watching someone playing a video-enhanced game of Dungeons and Dragons. On the one hand, you can sit back and enjoy the beautiful visual effect and fantasy adventure story without having to bleed your fingers on the joystick. But from time to time you do wish to takecontrol and hurry things up to face the big dragon. Ultimately you get somewhat disappointed when you don't get to see the big dragon because obviously you are just on level one.

In the first of the serial prequels to The Lord of the Rings trilogy, director Peter Jackson follows precisely the prescription in J. R. R.Tolkien's original novel and sends the players exploring the vastness of the Middle Earth. Before the adventure begins, viewers are given quite a lengthy introduction of the characters, chiefly among them is Bilbo Baggins, played by Martin Freeman, who is also Dr. Watson in BBC's contemporary adaptation of “SherlockHolmes”. Besides that, the dwarves put on a great show of joy and merry-making, but it makes a painfully extended intro and character selection part with no skip button.

To make the game last longer, our director includes a know-your-character tutorial scene, also without a skip button. This is the scene where Bilboexhibits his outstanding quick wit which makes him a very precious member of the group of reckless dwarves.But apparently Jackson believes the little Hobbit hasn't done enough to prove his worth, so the rest of the installment is dedicated to that task, culminating with Bilbo's confrontation with Gollum in a riddle game.

In the meantime, the group roamed the Middle Earth, gathering important items and necessary information toguide them through the quest. When this is done, congratulations! You've completed level one. For more adventures, please insert more coin, and wait until next year.

So as you see, the storyline is problematic. And because the director spends the bulk of the time developing the lead character, by the way, great job by Martin Freeman, other characters or more precisely the 13 dwarves and Gandolf the Grey, don't fare as well as the little Hobbit. All that you can recall is dwarves and more dwarves and Gandolf from The Lord of the Rings.

Other factors, like brilliant pictures and scores,don’t help distinguish the movie from a well-made videogame. And adding to the disappointment is the likelihood that the high-frame-rated version might not be available in Chinese cinemas. So the film's innovative significance could go missing among the Chinese audience. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is a movie spoiled by ambition, either the ambition for another trilogy, or the ambition for more sizeable grossing. A shortened editor’s cut might save the series, but I guess it wouldn't be possible in the near future. On a scale from one to ten, I give The Hobbit a 6.

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