Beowulf: Director's Cut (DVD)

Beowulf: Director's Cut (2007) starring Ray Winstone, Anthony Hopkins, John Malkovich, Crispin Glover, Angelina Jolie, Robin Wright Penn. It's sometime in the Dark Ages, and a manlike ogre named Grendel (Glover) is terrorizing the Danes. The great hero Beowulf (Winstone) arrives by sea to battle the beast. After dispatching Grendel, however, Beowulf finds that he must deal with Grendel's mother (Jolie), who is bent on revenge -- or is it something else she wants from him? The movie is done in "photorealistic animation," which means the actors kind of look like themselves, but everything is a bit off. Grade: C+