Despite all the hate, this is a very good movie

Rating: 7/10 (26 September 2013)

Hearing all the hate for this movie, not just from this site but from my friends also, I placed this movie on the end of my ''watch list'', and as a result, forgot about it completely. All I knew is, and I quote my friends here - that the movie was supposed to be a ''weird mix of Lord of the rings and Shrek, not quite a movie and not quite a cartoon either'', and as a result I didn't even see it in the cinema, instead going to watch ''I am Legend'' and ''Transformers'', and man, was that a mistake!
So there was this one night where I had absolutely nothing to do, I just watched all the movies available, including a mediocre horror ''The hills have eyes'' and listing all the movies I had available, I came upon this one. I said to myself - hell, I can think of a worst way to spend this evening, and decided to grab a bowl of popcorn and turned on the movie.
Several minutes in I noticed that it's not a real movie, but rather a detailed animated feature film, however as the movie went on I completely forgot about it as I enjoyed one of the more epic fantasy movies I have seen in recent years - and I've seen quite a lot.
While not really true to the poem, and not fit to stand next to really epic fantasy movies like the Lord of the rings, this gem had enough action and fantasy to keep me at the edge of my seat. And not to mention that I cursed my friends that we didn't go and watch the cinema release of the movie, opting for the mediocre ''I am Legend'' instead...