Like, it's not even close. The 1977 cartoon is crisp, has beautiful artwork, and more closely matches the spirit of the books. Jackson's Hobbit trilogy meanwhile is a bloated mess. I was so bored and uninterested I couldn't even finish the third movie.
The part where the one dwarf starts comically fighting with his arms and legs sticking out of a barrel was where I tapped out. I actually left the theater lol, mostly because I was so bored/annoyed up to that point.
It's like, Jackson understands that the original book was for kids but then doesn't actually make it a kids movie, just does silly stuff like that that no one likes.
The movie had whiplash between slapstick and serious grimdark shit. Just a mess of a trilogy. Del Toro should have done it, one movie.