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Rating: Null/10 (28 November 2007)

Everything I hear about Beowulf focuses on graphics, graphics, graphics. Stop it, please. We all know the graphics are rather spectacular, and if you see it in 3d as I did, it's so spectacular it might make your eyes hurt. The CG is tops - at first I thought it must be a blending of real life and CG, not entirely the latter.
Before I get too carried away singing its praises, however, let me tell you - it slaughtered the real story of Beowulf. I read the story in high school (or was it middle school?) and the movie was so utterly inaccurate to ANY degree, that I started remembering that story. Grendel looks awesome in the movie poster. He looks like a large leper in the film. I thought I noticed some scale change as well - video games do better than that. For the informed, Grendel's mother is monstrous. She's not the sexy babe you always have to see in every movie. Nor does she give birth to the dragon - and on that note, how does such a thing happen anyway? Even if you've never read the story, the movie still won't make sense.
When the dragon... wine... thing gets lost and returns, it's never explained. Watch how Beowful slays the dragon (by the way, in the actual story, he didn't slay the dragon; one of his loyal knights did). If you want a real action-filled story that leaves you entranced, then um, go to the library and pick up Beowulf. If you just want eye candy, then go see the movie.