"Monsters belong in B movies."
I guess I didn't know what to expect of this, it's reputation isn't great and the first thing everyone says about it is "it's sooooo long." (I guess you could say it's runtime precedes it.) But I really wasn't expecting this to be as goofy as it is. The tone of this certainly is a choice, maybe Peter Jackson thought it was one way of keeping a story that everyone knows from getting too stale…