Grade • B+ DVD • It will take two more movies in Peter Jackson’s prequel trilogy to know if “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey†is a masterpiece or Jackson’s version of “The Phantom Menace.†The betting seems to be toward the former, as Jackson retains his gifts for filling his vision of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-Earth with an insane amount of detail that makes the mythical place feel as real as …
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DVD review: First part of ‘Hobbit’ is a visual feast