Well... after-match report.
The good:
- Stephen Fry as the Master of Lake-Town was excellent
- Ditto for Bard and The Cumbersmaug
- Lake-town and Mirkwood were both great in terms of scenery
The bad:
- Goddamnit they did not read my papers on Dwarf history. That armadillo was factually incorrect.
- Love triangle. What?
- Love triangle. This deserves at least two points because what.
- Action scenes got too zany at times.
All in all, decent fantasy film, worse than Part 1 as a book adaptation. The stuff with Beorn's house should have been longer and more developed, the love triangle cut right out, and probably actually more Lake-Town would have been nice. Less Elves generally, silly pointy-eared pansies.