A visual experiment that hasn't aged well

Rating: 4/10 (3 August 2013)

It feels like some kind of sacrilege to give a negative review of something written by Neil Gaiman, but in my defense, it's not the script that lets this movie down. The story is classic mythology, and if it has stood up for a thousand years it'll stand up today as well - but the visuals. Oh my God, the visuals. I remember this was marketed as revolutionary when it came, and I'm sure it was, but now it just looks like a video game, and not a good one either. I keep getting taken out of the story by the weird way people move, or the Shreck-like faces. The studio probably wanted to make something both cheap and fresh, but today, not even ten years later, it's ridiculously dated, and a live-action movie would have been a much better idea.