I hope this is not the future of movie production.

Rating: 3/10 (17 November 2007)

I love the story of Beowulf. I spent a semester studying it. The movie doesn't unnecessarily butcher the story, but I was really surprised at how much I hated this movie.
Why does everyone look computer animated? This just takes away from the movie. I wasn't sure which actress was Robin Wright Penn until more than halfway through it. As my husband commented, it looks like this was made by the same people who did Shrek. It wasn't consistent with the tone of the movie to make the characters cartoonish, and I don't feel like it was necessary for special effects. Everything they did as far as special effects was stuff we have seen mastered without completely making everyone a cartoon.
Really, this movie had great potential. I am seriously disappointed.