On "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug"

From The Dispatch:

It feels bloated, packed with too many characters and plot threads, many of which are not in the book on which it is based. Jackson and his team have taken from Tolkien's apocryphal works and volumes of Middle Earth history to pad out his "Hobbit" trilogy, and "Desolation" nearly buckles under the weight.

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