I saw the Hobbit 3D last night. Excellent movie and I'm a Tolkien afficionado going back alot of decades. I thought in many ways it was better than the Lord of the Rings movie because it stayed with the wonder of the characters and the story more rather than being embellished too much with melodrama, which was my main criticism of the LOR, especially the Return of the King where you see Sam crying for an hour. I would highly reccommend this movie. Its slated for 2 hours and 49 minutes but my watch counted 2 hours 37 minutes.