Stellar animation. Not only in the movement of the characters and the rendering and texturing of the environments, but also (very importantly) in the movement of the camera. Almost every shot looks like it could be performed practically with the equipment we have available in reality. This familiar camera style is absolutely essential for keeping people in tune with the story. When I see obviously phony CGI camerawork in films, it takes me out of the experience immediately with how out of place and downright fucking terrible it looks. Not here. And for a fully CGI movie, that's quite a feat.

I couldn't stop laughing. This movie is just terrible. Okay, yeah the CGI and Motion Capture element of the film is pretty neat and probably the only true way to bring this story to life. But overall I was just bored and the acting is pretty bad. Plus the ending is kind of all "fuck you" cause it changes a major plot point and turns it into a big deal at the end like we're supposed to be amazed. Definitely not a movie I would have watched if I was not forced to watch it in my English IV class.

Note: I'm not sure how to rate crap so I just gave it 1 and a half stars for the visual effects.

"I WIW KIW YOUR MONSTA!"

Hell yeah. This film is awesome. Constantly entertaining, always stupid and tackily beautiful, this is the ultimate guilty pleasure. It contains Ray Winstone being non-fat and nude. Punching holes in the ears of troll-things and tearing out the hearts of dragons. Epic, epic, epic, epic...

KOMPJUTORSKI GENERIRANA GRAFIKA. xD

Koja zapravo uopće ne izgleda loše. Nije fotorealistična niti išta slično, ali brzo se privikneš na taj umjetni izgled. Isto vrijedi i za film, koji je ono, ne baš NAJLUĐE REŽIRAN ili tako nešto, ali poprilično zanimljiv. Gaiman je pisao, tako da se ni ne čudim.

Što istaknuti? Pa scenu u kojoj Grendel nabija Geatse (Giti, je l' to pravilan hrvacki prijevod?) na koplje i radi si šiš-kebab. :)

A guilty pleasure movie, maybe? I can't help but love Beowulf. Though I've never been a huge fan of CGI films, Zemeckis' blend of motion capture and fantasy really works here. This film is easily in my top five fantasy movies of all-time.

There's some cool action scenes but the animation is very dated. The eyes are way too dead for me.

WAY better than I expected! I should've guessed though. For a story to stick around for over a thousand years, it's probably got chops.

Zemeckis knows what to do with a camera, and he lifts the action/fight scenes in this movie into a whole other realm. The dragon fight at the end is remarkable. There is a great sense of space and real physics at work here. I wish more action movies were like this one.

A silly piece of motion capture.

One of the oldest stories on record, and still nobody's managed a good film version. Arseclowns.

A brave film from cult director Robert Zemeckis using the digital motion capturing photographic style of filming the actors as he did with 'The Polar Express' and 'A Christmas Carol' to bring a sense of reality to the film while keeping it well rooted in fiction.

Based on the Norse legends, Ray Winstone acts as mighty Beowulf who is called upon by the King of Denmark (Anthony Hopkins) to slay the mighty beast Grendell (Crispin Glover) who has been attacking his subjects.

What follows is a heroic tale of greed, salvation, mighty battles and swooping landscapes as Beowulf must also battle the exotic and dangerous mother of Grendel (Angelina Jolie) who is more dangerous than she seems.

Great fun and packed full of adult themes for a more hard-hitting action fantasy film.

Stellar animation. Not only in the movement of the characters and the rendering and texturing of the environments, but also (very importantly) in the movement of the camera. Almost every shot looks like it could be performed practically with the equipment we have available in reality. This familiar camera style is absolutely essential for keeping people in tune with the story. When I see obviously phony CGI camerawork in films, it takes me out of the experience immediately with how out of place and downright fucking terrible it looks. Not here. And for a fully CGI movie, that's quite a feat.

CGI animation at it's best - so far.

I loved the use the swooping camera angles that gives that scene extra emotion. Sometimes the film is funny. Especially the encounter with Grendel. The fight scenes really are done "horrifically" well.

One of the shining lights apart from the execution of the CGI is the sense of emtion achieved in nearly all scenes. Without giving away anything i think I felt what I was meant to do for each individual scene.

Really enjoyable