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Okay I've just come from seeing the movie. Cinema was packed and it was about half filled with children. The movie got a 'U' rating here. I don't know how but it did. So all the children got to see people being eaten and torn apart and everything. I think Joel was right. It skipped being censored because it was not real people. Several children started crying and had to be taken out.

They did an amazing job with the animation. I think I spent more time watching all the details than actually paying attention to the movie. Grendel's mother was quite something else. Terrifyingly attractive and they managed to make you feel very ambivalent about Grendel himself. In the end I was seriously cheering for the dragon. He was beautiful. I knew how it would end but still it was hard not to cheer for him.

As for the people, Beowulf and Hrothgar came out pretty well but the Queen looked quite plastic. The 3D worked very well with the flying objects and sea serpents and things getting killed by being stabbed through the eye from the inside.