It's not the 3-D that sinks it, it's the motion capture

Rating: 5/10 (10 December 2007)

This action trinket starts off as great fun, thanks mostly to the novelty of 3-D, which is done very well here.
But the motion capture technology deadens all of the performances and leaves all the characters looking like little dolls in a diorama. That may have been appropriate for The Polar Express, but it works against this film. Not only are the performances dulled as though seen through gauze, but the technology also seems to shrink the actual scale of the spectacle.
As for questions about the adaptation of Beowolf, this film is a comic book and not a serious attempt to adapt epic poetry.