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  • i hated this movie.

  • @Aspergerqueen I just read Beowulf for my high school English class. Awesome. This films "reinterpretation" of the epic Anglo-Saxon poem? Garbage.

  • @yoe91 Stop hating prick.

  • good review but i have to disagree with the naked scene yeh nobody wants to see man meat flopping around but, the reason behind why he got naked was fucking badass...i mean straight up chuck norris badass, he has all this armor and weapons n shit but he wants to fight the monster on an equal lvl because the monster doesnt have armor or weapons so i mean how badass do you have to be to take on a giant rage monster in ur birthday suit just to make the fight more even? come on now better than sex

  • looool at the black guy, he's completely useless and they still let him talk. "I didn't really...connect with the characters" wtf do you think this is, the Matrix ?! It's an epic tale, you don't 'connect' with characters, you analyze them as metaphors like in a novel. You're not supposed to connect with Golum or Leonidas.

  • @yoe91 you're not very bright are you? the hell you mean "like in a novel? it's a movie, they have to make people care for the characters.

  • movie sucked... full price

  • I thought Grindel was a dragon...

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  • This is like hte new Heavy Metal anyone thinks? same adult animated fantasy movie

  • great vid! i totally agree i don't see why people thought it wasn't that good.

  • i miss carlyle :'(

  • Beowulf movie= sweden today

  • @yomantoclean Bunch of drunk people drinking? And raping? And hiding their dicks?

  • @randomguyinthecorner nah but where vikings :P

  • i saw clips of this and thought it had real people. i didn't know it was cgi

  • this movie is pretty inspiriring. i wanna be involved in CGI filmmaking that avoids exaggerated animation

  • Full Price.

  • The movie was funny. Beowulf strips everytime he goes into battle. Remember the part where this guy wanted to kill him, and Beowulf suddenly strips down naked and told the guy to battle him? No wonder he didn't want to battle him, I'd be scared shitless if some guy suddenly strips down naked and told me to attack him :/

  • @TasteLikeSushi: It’s actually a good characterization of Beowulf in the epic poem. He’s one of the most narcissistic heros in ancient epics, an annoying show-off at first. The original story has some quite ironic undertones.

  • i read the book :P

  • This movie ruined the epic on many parallels...

  • Me and my friend laughed our arses off whenthe dragon lady showed up naked.

  • the last 20 minutes sucked. It went way downhill

  • I don't care what all the haters say, I think this was a really awesome movie. The main thing is, the original scrolls that had the first writings of the poem were burned in a fire CENTURIES AGO!

    So...who is really to say how the story really was, exactly? I thought the movie did an excellent job at telling THEIR rendition of the poem.

    Better Than Sex for me

  • To the guy 2 posts below me: Ummm...video game movie? Beowulf is a poem.

  • I really hated this movie.

  • I! AM! A CRAPPY MOVIE GAME!

  • matinee

  • Gnoma2345 ME TOO! I watched it at my friends house and it took me about 10-15 minutes to figure out it was cg. I was like wait a second there's something strange about this movie And then I figured it out.

  • Beowulf = Chuck Norris as a viking

  • WTF?! This was easily the worste movie of the year. You guys are really far off on your reviews in these older ones. Not sure why the reviews in 2010 seem to be so spot on. wtf guys, wtf!

  • @Hrel88

    you probably didnt see it in 3D like me, i rented on dvd and i thought it was average at best! the animation is great but the story really fell flat!

  • This movie was boring

  • this movie is BORING

  • Wtf.. this was CG?

  • Great beginning, great finally but the middle of the movie drags so much is becomes very tedious and dull. Kind of like Iron man 2 only a little better than that.

  • baowulf is horuble

    

  • I don't think people understand that this is a retelling of the story, so of course it's not gonna be the same thing. I had some problems with the film, but I still give it full price because it was just a fun, entertaining film and is visually incredible.

  • i saw this when it first came out in 3d. i got the worst fucking headache afterwards and it totally ruined 3d for me.

  • I just watched this movie in Movie Watcherus and it was? awesome !! :D

  • this film rapes, its got nothing to do with the source material, but if you want to see the most epic crazy action scenes ever its the best film

  • I kind of like this film. I've seen alot of various adaptations of Beowulf and very few are accurate (try the 1998 animated one or the narration by Benjamin Bagby for that). Grendel Gendel Grendel, Beowulf and Grendel, Beowulf 1999 etc. I can deal with some differences as long as the source material is there. That was a bit off too, but the story was still there just from other points of view. It isn't as bad as the 1999 version at least. But I would like an accurate Hollywood version someday.

  • Full Price for the totally UNEXPECTED plot twist, also a darker take on typical fantasy heroic movie.

  • I didn't even notice that this movie was entirely CG until you mentioned it in the review =o

  • i hate cg especially badly done

  • the reason why the movie is getting so much praise, is cuz its in 3D, I saw it on dvd first and i thought it was very mediocre.

  • some ol bullshit. he fights nagid, sleeps with the bad guy and dies. fuck.

  • The CG in this movie was just awesome. I almost believe this is the movie that convinced James Cameron that it was possible to make Avatar

  • it would have been better if they followed the original poem...

  • it was ok... no worse than all the other shitty movies that are all over the damn place

  • It sucks. Some ole Bullshit!

  • Greatest movie I've ever seen. Hail Beowulf!

  • i hated this movie it was so boring its trying to do 3oo but wanted to change it slightly it was awful

  • @left4deadfan1213 Lol i thought it was an ok movie then u make me compare it to 300 xD BEOWULF IS BULLS*** COMPARED TO 300 ^^

  • I Went in thinking this was live action.... and like when i was watching i thought "Hmm.... Something is wrong here" It took me 10 whole mins to find out it was CGI xD

  • The movie is good but I didn't like the big gap between young and old Beowulf. You're right about their faces, they're bad animated. The "hiding-the-sausage"-scene was not that bad but the spike-&-dragon-gag was horrible.

  • you know that they did cg her brest at the ending when she was in the water

  • Yeh i liked it

  • I thought this movie was pretty good.

    At first I thought it was live action but when I saw it, it turns out to be animated and I was like WHOA! hahaha I thought the animation was good for it to make me think it was live action.

  • too many plot holes and shitty story telling

  • this movie was p-g? whoa

    also it took me a while to find out that it was cgi i was like wtf really?

  • @Dfrost246 it is not rated pg

  • i thought beowulf was irish

  • I don't get how this is rated a PG-13 when you can clearly see guys getting ripped apart and decapitated.

  • What I'm wondering is how the movie compares to the poem. Corey said the characters were flat, which is uncharcteristic of a college level work. The movie never seems to do any book justice.

  • this movie was sorta close to the poem but not exactly for exampple in the poem Grendle couldnt be harmed by a normal sword in the movie he is, in the poem Beowuld kills the troll wife not have sex with her like in the movie but besides those two there pretty much the same

  • Then why are they complaining about stiff movement of characters?

  • the ending gave me GOOSbumps

  • One thing I have to say about Beowulf, this is probably the first CGI movie to get mouths right. You watch other good CG movies like Final Fantasy: Advent Children and The Polar Express and the dodgy way the mouths are animated really ruin the illusion, but not here.

  • advent child is so fucking gay

  • Thanks for sharing your opinion. It indeed is a shame Advent Children could not reach the same levels of sophistication and heterosexualness as Lolcats.

  • i know my name is stupid but was closest thing i could get to my name which is leo

  • They used motion capture in this movie, just like in the new games.

    They talk their lines and act (while being dressed in a special suit and filmed by a lot of different cameras), but they get textures and effects added to the basic animation.

  • you do of course realize that advent children was first done for japanese right? so of course the mouths are gonna be off.

  • @i9incher

    I'm not talking about lip syncing, I mean in CG movies the lips never look like how real lips would naturally move and just look like creepy computer twening. This happens in movies like the Polar Express but not movies like Beowulf and Shrek.

  • so here i am watching this review, about 3 min in im sure they will tell me its a movie to be skipped....talk about a plot twist! :P i dint see this ending coming!

  • They admit to not being able to connect with the characters.... and that's ok, I guess....

  • yea Angelina Jolie's ass should have been like the tomb raider games every time you watch the movie her tits & ass just git keep getting bigger &bigger. lmao

  • lol

  • I honestly thought this was one of the worst movies I had seen. The poem was great and this movie doesn't do it proper justice. Basically this is a whored-up version of the original story and I'm very disappointed in the director's decisions for the film.

  • My friend and I rented the DVD and watched it on my computer, and we were so bored after barely half an hour that we just turned the movie off. I really think the 3D effected their ratings. Even if I had gone to see it in theatre, we don't have any movie theatres that show 3D movies where I live.

  • @TheYearOfTheCat 3D made the movie thats it

  • I thought the animation was good from times to times without the 3D but it went to computerized throught most moments however I just enjoyed the movie for what it was, but I swear to god, if I hear the name "Beuwulf" one more time I am going to eat 2 pounds of salt, lol

    Anyways, Full Price

  • Put it on youtube but I AM IRON... oops i mean BEOWULF

  • Thanks, now I'm off to Walmart for salt.

  • Yah, this movie has no value outside of the big theater 3D experience.

    Zemeckis fails at animation again.

  • a magic hammer

  • im reading it now in in 7th grade

  • he´s thor with out a magic cane? O_o

  • this movie is nothing like the book

  • i like jolie and all but her as grendel's mum and that whole 'twist' ruined this for me.

  • parlano troppo veloceeeeeee xD

  • the movie is only good in 3D

  • I wish I would have seen this when it was in the theater for the 3D. Oh well.

  • Why?

  • maybe its because of the nakedness joke

  • see this movie in 2d and it sucks

  • are these guys roommates or friends

  • More than likely friends.

  • beowulf took his clothes off so grendel wouldn't control it and use it to kill him

  • some ole bullshit

  • Love Beowulf!!

  • High Matinee for me.

    The movie was a great experience, but I don't like any type of animated movie all that well unless it's at a Final Fantasy/Ultraviolet kind of level. And I didn't care too much for the green-screeny feel that appeared all too often.

  • lol meatballs

  • hide the sausage game

    rofl

  • I enjoyed the movie.

  • That Final Fantasy movie was a piece of shit, but visually that movie still trumps this film and it was made almost a decade earlier.

  • The Final Fantasy movie wasnt that bad, I mean yeah it was boring but my main gripe really was that they slapped the Final Fantasy name on it for no reason

  • i hated this movie

  • I LOVED THIS MOVIE!!!!!!!

  • LOL hide the sausage

  • golem as a burn victim lol

  • A lot of the movie looked like graphics.

  • i liked beowulf but ithought it was to slow but cool

  • I "BEOWULFED" all over the floor!

  • kupow! lol

  • I read this poem in middle school.

  • Congratulations.

  • Good CGI. But I would say, if you dont have 3d glasses it looks like shit. I didnt go see it, because it looked like shit. i stuck with 300 and I regret nothing!

  • this movie was amazing stop if ur going to say it bad no way is it...a blood thirsty robert zemekis movie and its not rasted r so wohooo

  • love this movie if u dont ur fucknig cock suckers nah im joking it was quite bad...not bad

  • The Movie Was Just Like The Book. Just Good!

  • Are you guys kidding me? This movie was sooo bad. It felt like it no direction whatsoever, the CG was lame and unnatural and the story was over-the-top in a bad way. I'd say rental, if not bullshit.

  • .....What!? Beowulf was AWFUL. AWFUUUL.

  • god, this is the most annoying theme song ever. effin terrible XD. but the cartoon guys are funny

  • i was very dissapointed at the lack of CG nipples>

  • The voice acting was a bit below average.

  • IDIOT!!! in ALL stories and in ALL movies it is necessary to conect with the characters, specially in movies based in stories!!!

  • See it's flawed, but it's actually the best I've seen when it comes to having a movie that's pretty good in it's own way. I mean it's certainly better than the 99 version and not as in your face as Beowulf and Grendel even though I love Skarsgard.

  • This movie would have looked a lot better if the CG characters had not looked like the actors.

    Because the characters looked like the actors, you constantly compare the real life to the model.  Of course the model is going to look flawed.

    The plot didn't flow all too well, but I agree that it is a fun movie.

  • you're right, they looked weird, but jolie was FINE. and yeah i agree about the plot, the transition from 2nd to 3rd act was a complete jump.

  • compared to the game i think this is just bad acting, here you just hear Beowulf whisper his awesome speech while in the game you hear him yelling it to everything with a passion, it really gave me chills how good that was voiced :P but yeah, in the game instead of using a door to hurt grendel he just literally rips his arm off.

  • I hated this movie. It was really hard to follow and I didn't care about or felt connected to the story or characters at all.

    The only reason I saw this movie was to hear the amazing Idina Menzel sing the song in the credits

  • This was pretty cool i hope they do a couple more movies like this in the future

  • it's motion capture, NOT animation.

    that's why it looks like shit.

  • The movie wasn't terrible but its no full price. Because of the fact that the CG is very awkward at times and the story was changed to much and had me thinkin like WTF? where they thinking. Other then that the action scenes were awsome and the voice works were pretty good two.

  • i thought this was a good movie

  • the story sort of did something new like the old boewolf story said that grendle mother was all evil and he killed her and after year he went back home and killed a dagon at the end for some reson

    but in this movie its like behide the story like that he did it with gredles mother

    and the dagon was his son

    and also in ireland where pg 13 is a 15s

    it a 12s movie

  • your guy's theme is catchy!

  • lol XD my gay friend is pretty much in love with beowulf (but i cant blame him so am i ) XD

  • It is an old gnaw dick tale XD

  • great movie!!!!! they animation is amazing! in 3D its.....holy crap omg it was terrific!

  • Omg dude like rent all the way but I can see what your comen from the only thing I could see to be a Full price is the awesome 3d, although I read the book and was a huge dissapointment for me

  • it was like shrek + 300 = holy shit

    full price

  • Hide the sausage, ROFL!

  • I saw a lil bit of the trailer on tv and i didnt even realise it was CGI and when i saw the actual movie it was a shock but i enjoyed it. Its the best CGI ive seen the action seens were great but i fell asleep half way through it (maybe because i was tired) but it gets abit boaring after awhile but all in all it was a great movie. I'd give it a matinee

  • how come its retarded?

  • I saw this film wile being stoned and i didn't get it!!! I still don't get it but i so don't want to watch it again! The only reason i watched it in the first place was angelina jolie. period

  • i give this a high matinee!!!

  • i guess it's not pg13 because when i bought that movie they were all like "can i see your ID please?" =/

  • The only thing I liked about it was the animation. I thought the story was boring, it was bad Dialouge and the characters sucked I give this

    -SOME OLE BULLSHIT

  • Didn't see the point of the CGI animation other than to show it off though. But those fight scenes came out FANTASTIC!!!!!!!!!!

  • I actually thought it was more believable and deeper than the book. People can be very greedy and stupid at times and like to put it there way despite certain facts.

    Ex: Taking grendel's head instead of the mom's. I know the real reason, just saying.

    I loved both of these versions but the book was great. At least you guy's have to admit it was the best of the Beowulf movies.

  • I actually read some of it in middle school as an assignment... But it was about two pages worth.

  • I agree I was disappointed it wasn't like the actual story, but I'm also glad these dudes didn't concentrate on all the fornicating scenes in the movie. So kudos.

  • Great story, but I really hated the movie :( I thought it killed it, and since I grew up with a familly full of history geeks, I saw al the flaws and it just ruined it for me. Like how Grendal's Mother is wearing high-heels and stuff like that.

  • this movie bored me out of my mind for some reason.

  • Great movie.

  • it's a Gaelic story.

  • This came out on my 15th birthday. I saw it at midnight

  • Well of course he'd sleep with the mom. She was the only hot woman in the film ,yes even as a lizard. Why did Beowulf have to cut off his arm to save the mistress and the queen?

  • I don't know if you were being sarcastic or not, but he cut off his arm, not only cause his arm was probably broken by the chain he was hanging off of the dragon with, but by cutting off his arm, he was able to pierce the dragon's heart.

  • yes I know that, but I just thought that those women weren't worth it. But your right it was the only way. Kinda ironic isn't it that he dies in the same way he killed Grendel.

  • yep....i dunno how to say it

    i was directed toward males....but y are there naked men?

  • i really didn't like it when u go into a movie wit high expectations something makes u very angry

  • the commericals made it look real when i went to see it i was like wtf

    the only person that looked real was Anglina Jolie

  • XD you are only saying that because she was naked!

  • Beowulf was seriously was a well cinematic movie. For god sakes i thought the humans were real for half way through until i asked someone and i was like holy shit!!!

    I read beowulf it was a good book too.

  • awesome movie and an awesome review!

  • Beowulf was the best movie in a long time.