Dwarf shortage

[Kuruharan]

Contrarily, I do think that the dwarves are just a little bit too short and don't have a problem with their stockiness or lack thereof. I wasn't so bothered by their stockiness because I figure even dwarves are going to have different body types.

I was more bothered by a couple of scenes in the film where the techniquies to make the dwarves look dwarf-sized failed utterly, the Battle of Azanulbizar where the dwarves are charging is the worst offender in this regard. The charging dwarves in that scene are so obviously human sized that it renders the scene cover-your-eyes awful. And that really worries me as to what the Battle of Five Armies will look like.

There were also a couple of instances where the dwarves would seem to randomly change sizes relative to their surroundings and other people because of the differences in height between the actor and their stand-in.

However, these are the perils that come with trying to do a live action film that has a race or two who count short height as one of their defining characteristics.