Beowolf

the 2007 animated version.

This is a good movie. At times the animation is distracting one second everything will look very realistic, the next it will look fake. Some of this has to do with the lighting. It is too perfect. Every nook and cranny is properly lit to establish the right mood. Some of this has to do with the motion-- people just don't move with such grace and perfection.

There is a bit of a controversy around this movie because it diverges from the the true Beowulf story. In this movie Beowulf is flawed in the poem he is a hero. In the movie Beowulf does not kill the Grendel's mother in the poem he does.

I have to agree with the movie makers here. The poem is two or three separate stories-- Beowulf vs Grendel, vs Grendel's mother, vs the dragon. By changing the relationship between Beowulf and Grendel's mother, they make the whole story one cohesive story.

As for making Beowulf flawed-- I like that. The film makers were clearing trying to tell a more adult, more mature version of the story. When you are an adult, pure heros don't exist. Having a perfect Beowulf would have weakened the story.