Oh yeah, I saw this about a week ago. It was ok. Everything involving Smaug was great but the first half of the movie was pretty dull. The Beorn stuff in particular was really unnecessary. If they are going to cut out the best part of the Beorn scene (the introduction), then why even show it at all?

I felt this movie was way too long and would have been better at about two hours of length or little less. It just dragged on.

The crazy barrel scene didn't bother me because you could tell they were trying to be as over the top as possible. I enjoyed it. I didn't enjoy the rest of the Legolas stuff though. Too much of him just being a badass and slaying orcs when there's no reason for it and it doesn't make sense for his character at that point in time.