Good old fashioned animated violence

Rating: 6/10 (11 September 2008)

Well another of those have to see films, Beowulf is a computer animated film based on the tales of the last days of Beowulf. The story follows Beowulf as he comes through and slays monsters takes on kingdoms and enjoys the spoils...
In the end I had a little trouble taking this movie seriously. Even though they try to dress it up with a whole lot of blood (and I do mean a lot) and violence I have a hard time taking this seriously. I don't really understand why as I keep fighting against the whole "hard to take animated films serious" but I kept picturing shrek for some reason. I do feel that they tried a little too hard to make the movie more raunchy. Still in the end it is a good die hard action film and has subject matter that is enjoyable to most fantasy buffs...me included.
Anycase this is a good movie that many fans of fantasy violence can enjoy.