I've read The Hobbit three times (once in Norwegian, twice in English) and I'm now reading it in Latin, so I see myself as kind of a fan. The movie, however, was really disappointing. When I heard they were making three movies of The Hobbit (which got around three hundred pages) like they did with Lord of the Rings (got about a thousand pages) I started doubting. The way they managed to make the first movie so long is basically by adding a whole bunch of content that isn't in the book (and wasn't really any good either) and ruining perfectly good chapters by adding pointless details. They also managed to ruin Radagast the Brown's reputation by presenting him as a junkie, while actually in the book he's just mentioned once or twice by Gandalf. I also disliked the whole story about Azog, the white orc.