Cast Ray Winstone
Angelina Jolie
Brendan Gleeson
Anthony Hopkins
Robin Wright Penn
John Malkovich
Screenwriters
Roger Avary
Neil Gaiman
Director
Robert Zemeckis
Running Time
114 minutes
6th Century Denmark, and the domain of King Hrothgar (Hopkins) is under attack from a hideous demon named Grendel (Crispin Glover). The heroic Beowulf (Winstone), a Geat warrior, arrives and vows to defeat Grendel. But if he manages that, there’s Grendel’s angry and seductive mother (Jolie) to contend with…
I did not see this in 3D as there was nowhere nearby to do so and had I, I probably would have given it an extra star. It was good and the animation technique is interesting but still a work in progress. Characters who are shouting or very animated with the actor giving a big performance seem to work best at present, whereas say the Queen acted by Robin Wright Penn who presumably was giving the role a subtler playing seemed not to register with the computer because the face was an unmoving mask.
