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An excellent showcase for the advantages of computer-generated animation.
I had a hell of a good time at this movie.
Their story arc brings some legitimate dramatic interest to Beowulf's climactic battle with the dragon.
It's imaginative, and it has the barreling forward motion and lurching thrills of a Dark Ages theme park, even when it's exercising battle-worn clichés.
Heads roll, arteries gush and spleens spill across the IMAX screen in Beowulf, just as you'd expect in a screen adaptation of the oldest surviving epic poem in the English language.
You want to read Beowulf? Get the book, I'm not stopping you. You want bloody adventure with a brain, see the movie.
It's a superb action flick that will have you wide-eyed in awe at its effects; just don't go expecting any kind of literary discussion.
Beowulf is a well conceived and technically excellent rendition of the ancient legend, but it doesn't follow its ideas through all the way, and some strange choices on the part of Zemeckis ultimately make it a little less than the sum of its parts.
Beowulf is pretty to look at, but lacks soul. Perhaps it is time for Robert Zemeckis to return to the land of the living.
The Old English poem ponderously, gracelessly expanded into an epic bore
Beautiful and bold animation for a beautiful and bold story.
It drops its epic posture and spews far too many double entendres.
700 A.D. is now 21st Century American 3-D. It's a hell of a transformation. The 3-D version of Beowulf -- the one you must see if you see the film -- is a wild roller coaster ride.
...the initially impressive visuals are ultimately negated by the annoyance of the technology.
A worthy cinematic adaptation, with interesting and provocative mythic ideas of its own, and suprisingly lyrical images to match. [Blu-Ray]
The bane of English majors for 1,300 years makes it back to the big screen, now with 75 percent more hostility toward Christianity!
...visually fascinating yet emotionally frustrating, action-filled yet oddly dull, colorful yet flat. (Blu-ray Edition)
The story contains plenty of action and great-looking graphics, but it hasn't much heart.
Throw on your 3-D glasses and prepare to have your mind blown away.
Robert Zemeckis' Beowulf is so rousingly entertaining that you'll feel guilty for not reading the epic poem all the way through when you were in ninth grade.
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