The 3-d Glasses were a nice touch

Rating: Null/10 (12 December 2007)

Mixed feelings, see it in Imax and 3d if you must, the experience of watching a 3d movie kinda wanes after the first 30 minutes or so but picks up again the last 20. I thought the re-telling actually wasn't that bad, it a lot of funnier and more emotionally involving the poem, and it managed to include ideas surrounding the original text as well, the layover of Christianity onto the pagan society whether Beawolf is a story of Jesus, or Revelations or a pagan pseudo-history of a warrior king, in any event it's a boring myth, become one of the better "fantasy" films of recent memory, though visually it still looks pretty stiff, and I don't see this style as the future of film making, as it didn't really work in Final Fantasy or the Polar Express and it don't work here. Animation might do better to imitate our animated and unphotographable mind, as opposed to our literal world which is captured quite accurately by camera.