The comment was picked up across the blogosphere overnight, but has since mysteriously disappeared from Sacks' verdict as if suddenly slipping on its own ring of invisibility. Weirdest of all is that when I first read the review, at around 11pm last night, it suggested that the portrayal of wizard Radagast the Brown by Sylvester McCoy, "descends into Jar Jar Binks territory". Watch the video of the Hobbit premiere in New Zealand. Elsewhere, the review is frustratingly short on detail, but there are a few choice titbits to glean: The New York Daily News's Ethan Sacks offers a largely positive verdict on the first film in Jackson's new opus, describing the film-maker himself as "the real wizard" of Middle-earth. Nothing from the trades, Variety and Hollywood Reporter, who you would usually expect to be first up to the oche, and nothing from the world's newspapers … until now. Instead, the only verdicts handed down thus far have come from luminaries such as film-maker Bryan Singer, and little-known Kiwi blogger Kylie Klein, who, it seems, was so overwhelmed by getting a ticket that her critical faculties were slightly swept away. With the new film trilogy tipped to surpass its blockbuster megalith predecessor The Lord of the Rings at the global box office, it seemed certain that at least a handful of critics would make the decision to defy studio embargoes and publish and be damned. For fans eager to get the first critical verdict on Peter Jackson's return to Middle-earth after The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey premiered in Wellington on Wednesday night, it has been a frustrating couple of days.
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