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Double amen to your comment too.
In addition to all of your observations: the tone for this movie has been set by Jackson's LotR films. So it has to be this epic action movie, with lots of swordplay and scary brutal monsters, and an overall 'gritty' tone.
So instead of cutesy little goblins being petty and irritating, they get upgraded to savage LotR Orcs. And there was that annoying sub-plot with The Great White Orc chasing the party down because fuck dwarves.