Ummmm, Yeah.......

Rating: 1/10 (17 November 2007)

You should see this movie, but only if you have too many brain cells and you need to kill a few of them in the most excruciating, gruesome, torturous, and most of all, insulting way possible. They took a literary masterpiece and reduced it to celluloid vomit. Really awful CGI (I don't know what those atrocities at the ends of their arms were, but they occupied the same space that hands would on a human being); the graphic work looks like it was done by a bunch of pre-pubescent boys given excellent rendering software, and absolutely no training in its use. The audience was laughing at the absurdity of a really awful movie trying desperately to take itself seriously (think "Anaconda"). Aside of a nice dragon rendition, and a nifty fight scene between Beowulf and Grendel, there is absolutely nothing to recommend about this movie, and those two bits were ten minutes out of two of the most painful hours I can remember suffering through in a theater. A root canal would be more enjoyable. Pathetically bad doesn't even begin to describe it. The storytelling was low grade Jerry Springer at best. A complete waste of a talented cast. I give it an F- only because I can't give it a Z!