Product: Beowulf (1999)
Rating: 1.0
This movie should be on Mystery Science Theatre...
I recently saw this movie at a friend's house, and it was quite good... for a great many laughs. I usually love post-Apocalyptic movies like the Mad Max series. The difference is that the Mad Max trilogy does a much better job of mixing modern and ancient and futuristic set pieces, scenery and props. Beowulf just screwed it all up on so many levels. The outpost has a PA system and zippered-plastic body bags but no electricity. Some of the people are dressed in armour then you have the girl running around in Doc Martens and torn red thigh highs. My favourite was the porn-queen, crimped hair, succubus with way too much blue eyeshadow. She belonged in a Motley Crue video. Grendel was the least scary thing in the whole movie.I really loved the oversized Barber's razour "chopper" thing at the beginning. At least the person being executed gets a last laugh when they see that ridiculous thing.Now for me to vent about how thoroughly they screwed up the storyline. Hrothgar was not (NOT!!) Grendel's father. Beowulf was not born, "half of Heaven and half of Hell," whatever, that sounds so stupid. He was a Danish king, no more, no less. Lastly, he killed Grendel's mother in a lake and did not run off with Hrothgar's daughter.I did have lots of fun ripping this movie apart while watching it so it does have it's good points.