Good but almost totally misses the point of the book.

Just finally finished watching all three films and did a nine hour back to back viewing.

Hugely enjoyably but totally unnecessary trilogy. The Hobbit was a simple children's book and that was it's charm but they managed to bloat a lovely little story in to this huge spectacle, half of which never happened. The Hobbit was never meant to be an epic, just an adventure.

Other things like the terrible pantomime make up, handsome dwarves (What?) and absolutely everything being totally over stylised with CGI just brought it down even further.

I did enjoy the ride as it was very well made but it almost totally resembles nothing like the lovely little book I used to read as a child.

One simple 2-3 hour drama would have done beautifully but they pumped it full of steroids and sent it out with an axe in it's hands.

Highlights were the songs and quieter sections in the first film and a brilliant Smaug in the second.

The rest was tacked on trash. Enjoyable trash but trash nonetheless.