This means that the boisterous "merrymaking" of Hrothgar and his men is unbearable to him, and he ventures down from his cave in the mountains to put a stop to it. He appears to be falling apart, which has the unfortunate side effect of exposing his eardrums. Grendel is massively tall, outrageously strong, and hideous to behold. Based (and I use that word very loosely here) on the epic 8th century poem of the same name, Beowulf follows a man (also of the same name) who ventures to Denmark to rid King Hrothgar (Anthony Hopkins) and his kingdom of a fearsome demon named Grendel (Crispin Glover). The effects work here is so crisp and vibrant, that it'd be worth seeing even if the characters weren't doing anything noteworthy.īut, of course, they are. Whatever downtime there is only allows the audience to marvel at the visuals. Though there are plenty of human moments, and the film is about relationships as much as heroics, it moves at a breakneck pace from one battle to the next. Of course, it's hard to forget this when the screen is filled with demons and dragons. The characters in Beowulf move so subtly, and in such human ways, that moviegoers may be forgiven for occasionally forgetting that they're not watching human actors. Zemeckis apparently took note of this, and an EOG (Electrooculography) device was used this time around to allow the animators to "track muscle pulses being given off by the eye." The results are staggering. Though The Polar Express received its share of praise from critics, many noted that the characters' eyes did not move realistically they were lifeless, and more than one reviewer used the word "creepy" to describe them. And now, he's championing the motion-capture technology introduced in The Polar Express and substantially improved in Beowulf. He filmed Back to the Future II and Back to the Future III back-to-back in 1989, before such gambles were in vogue. He was the first director to merge live action and animation in a truly seamless fashion with 1988's Who Framed Roger Rabbit?. For over twenty years, he's blazed one trail after another.
Robert Zemeckis has never been one to shy away from a challenge.
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