- Beorn: Ruined completely. A funny scene from the book turned into just another orc chase. Beorn himself looks ridiculous and has far too little screen time for the role he plays in the next movie.
- Mirkwood: Excellent, although they cut a few scenes. Bilbo's scenes were great as were the spiders. Then it was ruined by elf ninja CGI crap.
- Barrels: Enjoyable although silly. Worst part was orcs and elves - again. Don't know why the good guys even bother to fight, invincible elf god Legolas can beat all the orcs by himself.
- Laketown: I liked the look of Laketown. Most of the scenes were good. Enjoyed the expansion of Bard's character but hated the Master's Wormtongue clone.
- Dol Guldor: I like the addition of this storyline, although I hate Azog and don't know why Sauron didn't just kill Gandalf.
- Erebor: Fantastic. Until the dwarves enter the mountain, then comes the crappiest sequence seen in a Middle Earth film. The molten gold can't melt a tin wheelbarrow yet they expect to kill a fire dragon with it? Bilbo and Smaug were great together though.
Also, hated Tauriel, absolute useless character. Falls in love with a dwarf because of a dick joke, betrays her king, friends, people and country for a dwarf she met once and then heals him by glowing and humping his leg while he says the cheesiest lines ever, despite the fact orcs were attacking the rest of the town. The looks on her face are ridiculous, she acts like a whiny rebellious teenage girl and to top it off, has eyes in the back of her head and can kill a hundred orcs without trying.
Legolas is a useless addition. All he does is fight. In there purely for silly action scenes. Thranduil however was done pretty well.
There's so many more flaws, but that's the worst of it. Dwarves being chased by an idiot dragon intercut with a lovestruck elf healing a dwarf was so, so bad.There was a good movie in there, but it's lost among all the CGI filler & love story crap. Focus on Bilbo FFS.
