Too scary to be for children, too childish to be for adults.

Rating: 5/10 (7 December 2007)

This is obviously not a family movie. The mature jokes and songs, and Grendel's appearance indicated that this movie is for adults only - that it is not meant to be as (for instance) Stardust, but to be a clearly violent epic movie for the fans, but sometimes it felt as if there was a joke behind the scene. But no, there wasn't. There are some particularly awful scenes, made to seed the feel of epicness but result in nothing but a weird joke.
The story was alright, it developed right and was interesting to follow. However, in a movie of human (and demon) relations accented, it is imperative to have humans act the talk-scenes. Computer graphics CAN'T replace human mimics especially in the tensed emotion scenes. I do have to admit I watched this movie on 2D, perhaps it looks better in 3D, but the computer graphics somewhat degraded this movie, adding a bit of comicness, which clearly doesn't fit in a movie like this.
The story was near perfect. It was quite obvious of the result in the beginning, but it's normal in these movies. The battle scenes were also thrilling and the creators have done a great job there. However, computer graphics awfully degrade this movie, I dare even say stealing an award or two, human emotions and mimics can never be fully replaced by computer and I had hoped Zemeckis knew that.
It's an entertaining movie for the epic adventure film fans, but will seem completely unacceptable for the rest. It could have been much better.