good movie, BUT---

Rating: 4/10 (18 November 2007)

the storyline was good, special effects, outside the main characters were awesome, BUT ------the use of animation for the main characters stripped the movie of any emotion - using the real actors for the main characters would have given this movie much more heart - I could muster no empathy for anyone, except maybe for Grendel - and i think that's not who i was supposed to feel sorry for - although the movie strays from the original text, the added insights should make for more a more tragic hero, but i found this not to be as the hero was so "plastic" -if this is the look of movies to come, ill stay home and watch them on TV -