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I Dream of Hollywood - August 2007

Beowulf - Magic is Coming Amongst Us

August 13th 2007 06:24
Beowulf
Ray Winestone plays the legendary hero Beowulf
CGI magic has had its ups and downs over the years since Toy Story first gave us the whole 3D animated experience. This year has been no exception. With Shrek the Third tanking, a host of penguin movies really cramping the style of the genre, and The Simpsons Movie (in 2D) blowing away the box-office, it seemed to be struggling.

Ratatouille rightfully gained an audience - and will no doubt do the same in Australia on its September 3 release date - but nothing has really appeared in the CGI field so far this year that seems either bold or fresh or lasting... till now!
Beowulf was nothing a matter of months ago but a release date and a cast that looked as if it might be inspired. Now... not only is there a trailer, but vivid and very flattering images of what can be expected from this animated delight!
Beowulf
The monster Grendel looks suitably mangled and heinous
CGI animated action adventure has yet to really be much of a hit outside the Disney-Pixar genre - whose super-hero family The Incredibles managed to cheese it up for the kids while still looking cool as they demolished the bad guys! - Beowulf, however, looks set to take the genre to a whole new level.

300 won the crowds with its stylised violence and CGI-created noir cinematography. Beowulf looks set to do so on a scale so far unimagined. Like an earlier 2007 release, A Scanner Darkly, which (rightly!) bombed, it takes accurate human form and gives it recreates it using CGI to create characters thoroughly human and yet capable of action on the screen that would be beyond the best stuntmen.
Moreover, it's got one hell of a story to play with, and it looks like it does it supreme justice. Beowulf is based on a British myth of a legendary King (Ray Winestone) who saved a city from an outcast monster - Grendel - before defeating that same monster's mother (played by Angelina Jolie) in battle. After this series of events he ruled, the most powerful King alive for many years, before finally being undone by a dragon.
Beowulf
Angelina Jolie is kept tantalisingly shadowed - but still sexy!
From the images available and the tantalising action sequences on display in the teaser trailer, we are not to be let down. Action, adventure, heroics, mucho mucho male musculature, while a great deal of Angelina Jolie being sultry will substitute for the usual on screen romances that come with action epics as compulsory extras.
SOLD!!! I can hear the box-office's beginning to turn over the cash from this one! It will seriously have to be a mess not to rake in the audiences and the cash. Check Beowulf at the movies, November 29.
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