After catching glimpses of the standard definition TV commercials, I didn't realize Beowulf was a CG movie. It was a lot more obvious in IMAX 3D...The characters look like Anthony Hopkins, John Malkovich and co. but they are not. Beowulf breaks new ground in the Uncanny Valley and boasts some truly awful horseback sequences. Ever dreamed of seeing norsemen riding Shrek's Donkey? - your fantasy has been realized.
Beowulf attempts to capitalize on the western, homo-erotic, macho violence market - it is successful to a point but 300 does a better job (at least in this author's opinion)...The film storyline runs fairly true to the source material which is to say it still falls down badly near the end. :P Having said that, the movie twist on traditional events and motives actually works quite well.
The martial score for the opening credits gets the blood flowing, ready to be spilled, and the theme is repeated at intervals. Unfortunately the credits close with a drippy, sappy, soppy, saccharine vocal track (Robin Wright Penn's minimalist version is not bad), searing an unpleasant aftertaste into an already confused palate.
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