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Title: Hwaet! This is terrible!
Review: This re-telling of the great tale of Beowulf is an utter failure in every way. The animation is dank, dark, dull. The characters look more like uncomfortable robots than imitations of living creatures. The basic story is trashed and Grendel's mother (the animated Jolie) is ridiculous. Read the epic itself* or see the movie, "Beowulf and Grendel", if you must see it on the big screen. But skip this awful interpretation.*There are decent poetic translation by Frederick Rebsamen and Dick Ringler that are worth looking into if you really want to get what Beowulf is about. A dramatic recitation is given by Benjamin Bagby in Anglo-Saxon (with subtitles) and is available on DVD - excerpts can be viewed on Youtube.
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