Beowulf - 1 Disc Edition [2007]

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Starring: ~ Ray Winstone, Anthony Hopkins Angelina Jolie Robin Wright Penn Brendan Gleeson
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Studio: Warner Home Video

Region: 2

Number of Discs: 1

Format: Dolby, PAL

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Sales Rank: 1027

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Terrible (26 October 2008)
The 'motion capture' is utterly pointless. Why not just use the actors as usual; you've filmed them anyway! It just proves a distraction in what is a very dull film. The miscasting and modern dialect ensure that the film comes over as a complete mess.

For a rainy day (26 October 2008)
This is the first film I've watched in a long time that I don't really have a strong opinion on. For those ignorant of the film's contents, it is a computer-generated tale of a brave warrior who fights a savage troll, and who is then seduced by the troll's mother.
After seeing the big names on the cover, I was pretty surprised it was an animated film, although to be fair the quality of the graphics and animation is superb. I think Winstone is miscast as Beowulf, and there's too much showing off and bravado with his character, although it does make his fall from grace more dramatic. Perhaps someone like Sean Bean would have been better?
The storyline isn't great, although it is fairly entertaining. Its a shame the fast-paced start soon slows down, and I found it a little slow in places.
Also the ending is a bit wishy-washy. I get the whole point of the demon's seductive ways, but it would have been nicer to see Angelina Jolie's head diced cleanly off after all that posing around....(!)

Good entertainment (24 October 2008)
I have to admit, I was really not sure what to expect from this. This film seems to me that they are trying to prove what animation can do. The charachters are so much like the actors (apart from Ray Winston, whos wife I understand liked his new body!), that I am suprised it wasn't live action with lots of CGI. However much as I love Ray (good east-end lad that he is) I could not quite get what was happening with his accent, was he de-cockneyfying his accent?
It sounds like I didnt like this movie, but infact I did, very much.... just these couple of points for me mean 4 and not 5 stars

A gorgeous and entertaining adaptation (04 September 2008)
Loosely based on the ancient tale of the 6th century hero, Beowulf is a brilliantly made film that is beautifully animated using Motion Capture techniques and is a greatly entertaining film. The film follows the traditional story relatively closely for the first part of the film but it does veer off on its own path after the death of Grendel. Although the changes that have been made do make this film something of a different animal to the original story but it remains exciting and I also doubt that a more faithful adaptation would be as well appreciated by modern audiences.

The computer animation used to make the fill is also truly spectacular, easily outdoing the previous usages of the Motion Capture technique such as Polar Express. The cast all give very good performances even if Ray Winston goes a bit over-the-top with his portrait of Beowulf as this seems somewhat appropriate for this film. In the end this can also be said of the film as a whole, it is an over-the-top homage to one of histories greatest heroes but for some reason it all just works. Some purists may dislike the departure from the traditional story and other film fans may not like the style of animation but in the end I personally feel that this was a great film.

Imaginative and odd, but watchable (28 August 2008)
I expected to hate this computer generated cross between "300" and "Lord of the Rings", but I actually enjoyed it - a lot. It is cleverly and imaginatively realised and very gripping in parts. There are problems with the film - the CGI nature of it means that you don't really get any emotion from the characters; the story is disjointed in the middle; and there are elements of storyline that are never followed through (for example we never know why Beowolf's relationship with the queen doesn't work out, and John Malkovitch's character has great potential but is not used). Nevertheless, it is better than the host of comic book films around at present. If you like adult fantasy, you should take a look at Beowolf.