Beorn's role in the movie.

[Eomer of the Rohirrim]

It was already a drawback that they wouldn't have the talking animals who set the table in this gritty, epic version of 'The Hobbit'. But even leaving that aside, they could still have made the sequence fun - like it should have been. Beorn was one of the best characters in the book, but in this film he's utterly forgettable.