The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug 3D (Blu-ray + DVD) PG-13
Beyond darkness... beyond desolation... lies the greatest danger of all.
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Blu-ray Details
- Number of Discs: 5
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 2 hours, 41 minutes
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: April 8, 2014
- Originally Released: 2013
- Label: New Line Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman, Richard Armitage, Evangeline Lilly, Lee Pace, Luke Evans, Ken Stott, James Nesbitt & Orlando Bloom | |
| Performer: | Graham McTavish, Dean O'Gorman, Aidan Turner & Cate Blanchett | |
| Directed by | Peter Jackson | |
| Edited by | Jabez Olssen | |
| Screenwriting by | Guillermo del Toro, Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh & Philippa Boyens | |
| Composition by | Howard Shore | |
| Produced by | Carolynne Cunningham, Zane Weiner, Fran Walsh & Peter Jackson | |
| Director of Photography: | Andrew Lesnie & Richard Bluck | |
| Voice: | Benedict Cumberbatch |
Entertainment Reviews:
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Rating: C+ --
If you're a fan of this world and want simply to luxuriate in its various intricacies, then that's fine. But for anyone else, The Desolation of Smaug can't help but feel like a bit of a desolate slog.
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Zaki's Corner
Rating: 4/5 --
The Desolation of Smaug doesn't disappoint. Despite its questionable plot lines and dialogue, it ticks the boxes as an action-packed, visually stunning feature.
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Flick Feast
More reasons to watch: Benedict Cumberbatch doing the absolute most.
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The Spinoff
Mr. Jackson and his virtuoso colleagues stage much of the action with the visual vocabulary of a good, old-fashioned chase.
Wall Street Journal
Rating: B+ --
Hobbit haters get dragon-forged coal for Christmas.
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The Reader (Omaha, NE)
Rating: 2.5/4 --
In The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug, Jackson revisits his style of elaborate escapist cinema, the visual vitality and expansive storytelling methods to convey Tolkien's visionary landscape of Middle Earth.
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SF Crowsnest
Jackson gets the drama in gear here from the outset with a sense of storytelling that possesses palpable energy and purpose.
Hollywood Reporter
Product Description:
Thorin Oakenshield (Richard Armitage), his mighty band of dwarves, Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman), and wise wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellen) embark on a crusade to reclaim Erebor from the vicious dragon Smaug (voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch) in this sweeping fantasy adventure that picks up where the events of THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY left off. Peter Jackson (THE LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy) once again directs from a screenplay by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, and Guillermo del Toro.
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