The Hobbit Trilogy: 10 Dumbest Moments

8. The Entire Goblin-Town Battle

The biggest sin an adventure film can commit is to remove all sense of peril €“ but that's exactly what The Hobbit does during the Goblin-Town chase. The Goblin King himself, while silly, was well-animated and well-voiced, lending to an interesting, memorable encounter. It's the subsequent battle when Gandalf shows up that's the real problem. Watching our heroes mow down wave after wave of flimsy CGI goblins in utterly ludicrous ways completely eradicates any danger.

The goblins were no longer weighty foes that proposed a massive threat like in Moria - they were merely special effects programmed to die. And to top it all off, at the end of the scene the company falls hundreds of feet down a cliff while surfing on a piece of rickety bridge. Can you imagine seeing something so ridiculous in The Lord of the Rings? Of course not - every character would be dead. But it's not even about comparisons to LOTR - it was at this point that audiences knew the world of The Hobbit no longer had a clear sense of its own reality. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kIhKCH8q4E