If the first installment was mostly material from the book with bits of new material, the second one turned out to be mostly new material with a few bits more or less from the book.
I get a distinct idea that Peter Jackson is trying too hard to out-LoTR the LoTR movies. Unfortunately, where LoTR was epic and faithful to the source, Hobbit throws the source off Orthanc and tries to lay the epic too thick till it gets ridiculous. Dol Guldur must be bigger and cooler than Minas Morgul! Dwarf king statue must be bigger and cooler than the Gondor king statues! Legolas must be bigger and cooler than... Legolas! Oliphaunts are old news, we need giant jackrabbits! Pulling sleds! Viserys Targaryen got a pot of molten gold? Feh, we shall drown a dragon in molten gold! (What, Viserys is from a different saga? Who cares, we shall still drown the fireproof dragon in molten gold, because it is cool. And have a dwarf paddle on it in a wheelbarrow first, just to show how cool he is.)
P.J.? We've thought this world and these characters were cool back when we had read the books.
There is no need to try this hard make them cooler. Honest.
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