Not true to original story

Rating: 3/10 (18 November 2007)

This movie has lots of eye candy and heroic themes, but to say its the story of Beowulf is a little bit of a stretch. Every major event that happened in the original story is in the movie, but they did not happen for the same reasons, at the same location, and in some cases to the same people. However, one event that shaped the rest of the movie happened completely differently in the original story. I am of course talking about Beowulf's encounter with Grendel's mother. Instead of chopping and slashing like in the original story, we have a movie industry cuddle that sets up the not quite so original idea of guilty pleasure. Its a so so movie about Scandinavian warriors, but it's a terrible movie about Beowulf. The consolation is that I see that it would be difficult to make a full length movie following precisely the original story. One last thing that bothered me is the pronunciation of the word scop. The word should be pronounced like shope.