Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Are You the One They Call Beowulf?

Things I never expected to see in a major motion picture:
  • Angelina Jolie reprising her Alexander role in full: snakey visual motif, unplaceable Dracula's daughter accent, and birth mother to killing machine
  • Ray Winstone with Brad Pitt's body
  • A lengthy animated fight scene wherein the warrior is buck naked
  • A dragon battle that's actually thrilling (the movies have never been able to do dragons well --this one made me believe that a film version of the Temeraire series is a good idea )
  • A hide the salami scene that's almost as funny as the famous nude Austin Powers sequence
  • Crispin Glover all sympathetic instead of just freaky
And yet, there they were, all of these improbable things in one place: Robert Zemeckis' gargantuan goofy motion capture spectacle Beowulf.

Read my full review at Zoom-In Online
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