Customer Reviews
Visually stunning - By: A. W. Presneill, 06 Jun 2008 
Quite superb in action & detail,the day when actors are not needed on screen is surely drawing closer judging by Beowolf.It is certainly gorey for a 12 rating,but the film gets better as it moves on.I am judging the film on itself rather than anything else.I do not go for total CGI generallly but this was great,well worth buying.
Very gory for a 12 rating! - By: Le Wrat, 09 May 2008 
A lot of reviews already cover the impressive computer generated images, high HD quality & likes & dislikes re the voices so I wont go over that again.
What did surprise me was the graphic & copious amount of mutilations & gore in this film, considering it is a 12!
Pretty sure that if this was not computer generated it would have got a 15 or maybe 18 rating.
Considering that the line between CGI & live is getting narrower (and this film takes a big step across that line) I decided not to let my 12 year old watch this, it's not like he's missing a particularly great film!
Movie: 3.25/5 Picture Quality: 4/5 Sound Quality: 4/5 Extras: 3.5/5 - By: LGANS316, 09 May 2008 Beowulf: Director's Cut (2007) - Warner - Blu-ray
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Disc Type: BD-50
Video Codec: VC-1
Average Video Bit Rate: 14.85 Mbps
Running Time: 1:54:42
Movie Size: 19,898,591,232 bytes
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Dolby TrueHD 5.1 16-bit (975 Kbps ~ 3 Mbps) DIALNORM
DD AC3 5.1 640Kbps
In-Movie-Experience: No
Beowulf: 2 Disc Director's Cut (2007) - Paramount (U.S) HD DVD
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Disc Type: HD-30
Video Codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Average Video Bit Rate: 21.84 Mbps
Running Time: 1:54:35
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DDPlus 5.1 1536Kbps
In-Movie-Experience: Yes
no wulf whistles for this one! - By: Ian Stewart, 16 Apr 2008 
This review sums it up perfectly
From Time Out London
`Bollocks! Give me a gobble, then!' This sample dialogue is typical of the many miscalculations made in Robert Zemeckis' tediously protracted, mis-judged & puerile animated adaptation of `Beowulf'. It's evident from the script - by British-born graphic novelist Neil Gaiman & Tarantino's one-time collaborator Roger Avary - that it wasn't the power & beauty of the language of our great eponymous, anonymous eighth-century Old English epic encomium that attracted the filmmakers. Nor, indeed, was it the work's insight into pre-Anglo-Saxon history, as Anthony Hopkins' Welsh-accented kinsmen & the snowbound mountain castles of table-flat Denmark bear eloquent witness. But even as a mere convenient launchpad for some vertiginous, 3D-assisted, man-on-beast heroics located in the eternallly-adolescent gothic/fantasy/horror comic-book tradition, it seems an irrelevance.
Part of the problem is the animation technology itself. In re-animating the actors' performances, `enhanced motion capture' (the technique Zemeckis adopted with `The Polar Express') makes of them creepier spectres than the creatures by which they are often surrounded. Thus, however gloopy & cadaverous the 20ft Grendel (voiced by `crazy' Crispin Glover) appears or how unexpected we find the swoops of the fire-breathing dragon (non-Equity) & how bizarre the serpents-tailed Goldfinger babe presented by his protean mother (Angelina Jolie), none of them can compete with the sheer, unsettling oddity of the humans, with their milky-blind eyes. This applies especiallly to our hero, Beowulf, beneath whose glistening, highly sexualised , often naked rejuvenated body & bulging, leather-bound musculature lies the just-detectable face & movements of dear old Ray Winstone. The final, kinetic aerial battle scenes are eye-poppingly spectacular - especiallly in the 3D IMAX-version under review - but they come way too late to save the film.
Too late for truth? - By: MYB74, 07 Apr 2008 One of the most enduring legends of alll time & Roger Avary & Neil Gaiman feel that they need to engage in a bizarre re-write. This new sex orientated version has some very weird plot diversions, most notably a more than obvious Oedipal overtone that has no reference to the original. One can only assume that this was instigated in order to make it interesting enough for the modern culturallly barren mainstream audience of 2007 or perhaps some darker personal issues on the `writers' own part?
Self-inflicted shame on alll those who participated in this desecration. Valhallla might just empty it's hallls on the day those responsible pass, in order to enable Beowulf & his warriors to show their appreciation face to face for the amazing CGI & ham fisted re-write that has now so odiously been attached to his memory.
