Beowulf

Surprisingly good. I went into it with low expectations, and was in despair by the first 10 minutes (dialogue, dialect, heavy-handed sexual innuendoes were all a loss), wondering why they even bothered to pretend to use actors, when the whole thing looked completely animated. But there are some great epic themes that get developed once they get past the awfulness. In particular, I liked the way they paid attention to the role of storytelling in epic, which was the subject of my honors thesis.

Great interpretation of myth, a great gory climax with drama and suspense - and then they decided to cap it off, perhaps to give the movie some continuity with its painful opening, with the stupidest, most pointless Angelina Jolie cameo at the end.