Beowulf Release
Date: November 16, 2007 (conventional theaters & IMAX 3D) Studio: Paramount Pictures Director: Robert Zemeckis Screenwriter: Neil Gaiman, Roger Avary Starring: Angelina Jolie, Anthony Hopkins, Ray Winstone, John Malkovich,
Brendan Gleeson, Dominic Keating, Alison Lohman, Robin Wright Penn Genre: Action, Animated, War MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for intense sequences of violence including
disturbing images, some sexual material and nudity) Official Website:
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Plot Summary: In a time of heroes, the mighty warrior Beowulf slays the
demon Grendel and incurs the wrath of its monstrous yet seductive mother, in a
conflict that transforms a king into a legend.
Groundbreaking director Robert Zemeckis offers a vision of the Beowulf saga that
has never been told before. Warner Bros. Pictures, Paramount Pictures and
Shangri-la Entertainment present "Beowulf," starring Angelina Jolie as Grendel's
mother, Anthony Hopkins as the corrupt King Hrothgar, and Ray Winstone as
Beowulf. The film also stars John Malkovich, Brendan Gleeson, Dominic Keating,
Alison Lohman and Robin Wright Penn.
Neil Gaiman ("MirrorMask," the graphic novel Sandman) and Roger Avary ("Pulp
Fiction") adapted the legend for the screen.
You
don’t need to wait for Angelina Jolie to rise from the vaporous depths
naked to know that this Beowulf isn’t your high school teacher’s
Old English epic poem Manohla Dargis: New York Times
You don’t even have to wait for the flying spears and
airborne bodies that — if you watch the movie in one of the hundreds of
theaters equipped with 3-D projection — will look as if they’re hurtling
directly at your head. You could poke your eye out with one of those
things! Which is precisely what I thought when I first saw Ms. Jolie’s
jutting breasts too...more
For
all its visual sweep and propulsively violent action, this
bloodthirsty rendition of the Old English epic can't
overcome the disadvantage of being enacted by digital
waxworks rather than flesh-and-blood Danes and
demons Justin Chang: Variety
Further advancing the much-vaunted performance-capture
technology he unleashed with
"The Polar Express," director Robert Zemeckis delivers a
muscular, sometimes stirring but ultimately soulless
reinterpretation of "Beowulf."...more
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Quick Review
For
all its visual sweep and propulsively violent action, this
bloodthirsty rendition of the Old English epic can't
overcome the disadvantage of being enacted by digital
waxworks rather than flesh-
