The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Extended Edition (2D/3D)

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Extended Edition (2D/3D) Review by Hag and Con

Be aware this disc is Rated 15 – but the Film is still rated 12. See below for full details:

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Extended Edition (2D/3D Movie): Discs 1-3 Rated 12

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Extended Edition Appendices: Disc 4 (Part 9) Rated 15 – Due to two very short gory clips from Peter Jackson’s movies Bad Taste and Brain Dead/ Disc 5 (Part 10) rated 12

Out on DVD, Blu-Ray and 3D Blu-Ray 3/11/14 (15) 5 Stars

Parent View:
I had concerns about this film – I couldn’t work out how Peter Jackson was making 3 films out of a tiny book like The Hobbit – I get it now and the man’s a Genius. There’s a few scary bits with massive spiders and Smaug the Dragon – but no scarier than Doctor Who. Plus you get loads of cuddles during those moment’s so its a massive bonus as a parent. I suggest having a blanket at hand for Kidz under 12 (This movie is rated 12 although it was a 12A in the cinema meaning Kidz under 12 could watch the movie) – Kidz love being scared by monsters and this has some great jumpy moments.

As with the last film and Lord of the Rings trilogy – you never get to see the full version of these movies first time around and any fanatic will need to own this new edition of Desolation of Smaug. This new version includes an extra 25 minutes taking the film to a running time of 186 minutes plus there are over nine hours of Special features.

If you’re Kidz dream of making big budget movies when they’re older – I can highly recommend them seeing these discs to find out how to do that job. Spectacular stuff!!!

3D Blu-Ray review:
Wow, Wow, Wow – Every fantasy movie should look like this in 3D. As an experience there’s not much out there that can top this. The first movie had cracking 3D – but part 2 annihilates everything you’ve seen in the first. Naturally there’s incredible landscapes, swords, arrows and pretty much anything you can possibly imagine coming from the screen – but this movie has huge scary spiders, Smaug the dragon, plus Bee’s. Yes – so simple – but the bee’s at the beginning of the movie are just magnificent.

Stand out 3D moments – Bee’s, Butterflies at the top of the Forrest, Lake escape from the Elves, Ship sailing through the fog to Lake Town, Gandolf v Orcs, Appearance of ‘The Master’ (No spoiler), Smaug chasing the Dwarfs and The finale trap with the furnace. I’m pretty certain that’s the whole movie looking back on these ‘Stand out’ moments.

The whole disc is incredible – Highly Recommended!!!

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