Mark Kermode reviews The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Mark Kermode reviews The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.  The second in a trilogy of films adapting The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien, continuing the adventures of Bilbo Baggins as he journeys with the Wizard Gandalf and thirteen Dwarves, led by Thorin Oakenshield on an epic quest to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor.

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