Beowulf

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Beowulf

PG-13

2007

1h 54m

Adventure

Action

Fantasy

Animation

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In the age of heroes, a mighty warrior named Beowulf (Ray Winstone) arrives at the court of King Hrothgar (Anthony Hopkins) and offers to rid the kingdom of a vicious demon called Grendel. He successfully slays the beast but thus incurs the wrath of Grendel's mother (Angelina Jolie), a creature as vicious and vengeful as she is seductive.

Critics Consensus

Featuring groundbreaking animation, stunning visuals, and a talented cast, Beowulf has in spades what more faithful book adaptations forget to bring: pure cinematic entertainment.

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Namrata Joshi

Outlook

01/25/2019

2/4

Expectedly, there are large-scale, edge-of-the seat clashes and some classic savage scenes. There are other interesting touches and some quirky emotions. It's a philosophical play on what it means to be a warrior.

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Alonso Duralde

MSNBC

05/01/2008

4/5

Robert Zemeckis' Beowulf is so rousingly entertaining that you'll feel guilty for not reading the epic poem all the way through when you were in ninth grade.

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Sandra Hall

Sydney Morning Herald

02/01/2008

3/5

No doubt C.B. DeMille, another director with a knack for turning Hollywood stars into robots, would have been entranced.

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Eddie Harrison

film-authority.com

Jun 9

3/5

...something of a noble failure, an attempt to harness Hollywood to access classic texts rather than comic book archetypes...in amongst the ruins, there’s the germ of what might have been a game-changing dive into turning great literature into great art.

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Mattie Lucas

The Dispatch (Lexington, NC)

06/06/2019

3.5/4

The characters up on screen seem like living, breathing people.

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Kaleem Aftab

The List

11/03/2018

4/5

Avary and Gaiman lay on the sexual innuendo and adultery, fleshing out the character of Beowulf into a believably unreliable narrator.

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Puffy puff

May 22

I like the games but not the movie

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a T

@RT80694674 May 11

I absolutely love love love this film and have watched it countless times, the voice acting the motion capture and overall visuals are incredible, the absolute love the design team have put into this are breathtaking. Well done on everyone involved, fabulous storytelling. Ok not historically accurate but who gives a fig? It's stunning, gripping and marvellous cinema.

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Davetheman

Mar 23

WTF is Beowulf and why the animation is so cringy

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Zaid bin Z

@RT91932628 Feb 2

One of the best movie ever !!!

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Lucas G

@pereira Dec 8

Com certeza você deveria assistir! É bem escrito, o protagonista não é abordado com aquele clichê de herói, há um lado filosófico; sombrio, a sua principal luta é contra si, há violênca, sangue, romance e boas lições, para uma animação fantasiosa, aborda as pessoas de uma forma extremamente real. Se é o que você procura, não vai te decepcionar.

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Noah H

@Noah85 Nov 21

HOW THE HELL IS THIS PG-13?!?!?!?! THIS WAS SO GORY AND DARK!!!! ABSOLUTELY NOT FAMILY-FRIENDLY!!!!! If you like gore kind of like how there is a lot in Game of Thrones, then you'll probably enjoy it but this was NOT for me. This thing should have been R-rated. My only favorite parts were the sexy bits and the epic end credit song by Idina Menzel.

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Synopsis

In the age of heroes, a mighty warrior named Beowulf (Ray Winstone) arrives at the court of King Hrothgar (Anthony Hopkins) and offers to rid the kingdom of a vicious demon called Grendel. He successfully slays the beast but thus incurs the wrath of Grendel's mother (Angelina Jolie), a creature as vicious and vengeful as she is seductive.

Director: Robert Zemeckis
Producer: Robert Zemeckis, Steve Starkey, Jack Rapke
Screenwriter: Neil Gaiman, Roger Avary
Distributor: Paramount Pictures
Production Co: Warner Bros., Shangri-La Entertainment, ImageMovers
Rating: PG-13 (Intense Sequences of Violence|Disturbing Images|Nudity|Some Sexual Material)
Genre: Adventure, Action, Fantasy, Animation
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 16, 2007, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 1, 2013
Box Office (Gross USA): $82.2M
Runtime: 1h 54m
Sound Mix: DTS, Dolby SRD, SDDS
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)