I saw it yesterday. It was very good. There was one scene at the beginning that made me a little skeptical, but luckily the rest of the movie did not go the way that scene did.
A friend of mine said there was one scene he didn't care for, but since its been a long time since I read the book or saw the cartoon I am not sure which scene he meant. I think I know, but I'm not sure and won't know till I talk to him again.
Overall, I enjoyed it alot. They added a certain female character into the story since the Hobbit didn't have any female characters, but since she's canon I was fine with it.
Great movie and it sucks to have to wait another year for the next part.
Major K
"He guards the sleep of his pauper master as if he were a Prince." George Graham Vest
"We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet: and, amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us." - Maurice Maeterlinck