Bilbo Warrior Hobbit: A Review of "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey." Part 1.

I saw The Hobbit for my third viewing on Saturday morning. It's really grown on me each time and now I give it two thumbs up, with a few reservations. It is a lot of fun and, mostly, very beautiful. I attribute my initial lukewarm reaction to being cranky from an earlier headache and bad traffic, further exacerbated by the 3D straining of my eyes, which made the lengthiness a bigger flaw than it normally would have been for me. I'll talk about the viewing technology issues in the second part of this review.

(  SPOILER ALERT: Thoughts, Complaints, and Squeeage about the film and the book . . .LONG POST IS LONG )