Great review! I've only seen it in 2D regular frame rate. I'm interested in seeing the higher frame rate version, but PJ's Middle Earth movies are all rather heavy and I like to space out my viewings. Seeing the extra material from the appendices is really cool - it's like extremely lavish fanfic. I just wish everything were a bit more restrained, especially the length and the... emotions. But on the whole it was great fun. I loved the Dwarves and I'm curious also about how changing Thorin's motivation will work out in the long run.