I avoided this for some time and only decided to pick this up recently, after watching for 5 minuets I was getting very dubious and started to think that this wasn't the movie I was hoping it to be, then Grendel pops up and its blood and gore everywhere and From there on it doesn't stop, there is some fabulously gory scenes that just cant be described, other talking points would have to be seeing the naked and pert Grendels mother who oddly looks and sounds like Angelina Jolie, For me that was probably worth the price of the DVD alone. The Story of Beowulf is not one I am familiar with but it was told well and I did enjoy watching it. My only gripe with Beowulf would be that even though the graphics are truly amazing the characters eyes lack any soul and this can be felt when the views move in closer to there face. When I mean soul I mean look at any Pixar animation and you can feel warmth coming from the characters eyes, Beowulf seems to lack this. This don't make Beowulf a bad… more »

I avoided this for some time and only decided to pick this up recently, after watching for 5 minuets I was getting very dubious and started to think that this wasn't the movie I was hoping it to be, then Grendel pops up and its blood and gore everywhere and From there on it doesn't stop, there is some fabulously gory scenes that just cant be described, other talking points would have to be seeing the naked and pert Grendels mother who oddly looks and sounds like Angelina Jolie, For me that was probably worth the price of the DVD alone. The Story of Beowulf is not one I am familiar with but it was told well and I did enjoy watching it. My only gripe with Beowulf would be that even though the graphics are truly amazing the characters eyes lack any soul and this can be felt when the views move in closer to there face. When I mean soul I mean look at any Pixar animation and you can feel warmth coming from the characters eyes, Beowulf seems to lack this. This don't make Beowulf a bad movie and its worth adding to your DVD collection.