Product Details

• Actors: Peter Ustinov, Keith Michell, Arthur Dignam, Ed Rosser, Bobby Bright
• Format: NTSC, Color
• Language: English
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Family Home Entertainment
• Run Time: 90 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6301581598
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #278,726 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Customer Reviews

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2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars one of the coolest cartoons ever, April 1, 2007

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Jesse Eastes "DingoDog99" (The Great Oregon Territories) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Grendel, Grendel, Grendel [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is one of the coolest cartoons ever, I just wish Amazon had sent it to me like they were supposed to!

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not true to John Gardner's Grendel, October 2, 2010

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K. Grant "kribby" (Baltimore, MD) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Grendel, Grendel, Grendel [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I am a high school English teacher. My class reads John Gardner's Grendel in conjunction with the epic poem, Beowulf. Not only is the animation painfully dated (and not in a cute Flintstones or Rocky and Bullwinkle, Fractured Fairytales way) but the movie trivializes and jumbles the novel. Bumbling characters are added to Hrothgar's entourage... ye gods this movie is painful to watch.

An actual line from the movie... "King Hrothgar's official message, "PUSH OFF!"

Seriously?

And why is Wiglaf a part of Hrothgar's entourage? Gah.

If you are a purist to the epic poem, Beowulf or the novel, Grendel don't pick up this movie.

9 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Over $100? Are you NUTS?!?!?!?!, October 22, 2005

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David Wilson Stager "Kofi Annan" (Boston, MA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Grendel, Grendel, Grendel [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is basically the animated movie adaptation of John Gardner's "Grendel", and I bought it in the hopes that I would rediscover some childhood memories. Fortunately, I was not dumb enough to buy this through Amazon. Instead, I bought a bootleg dvd copy I found on ebay for $3.

The animation is dated. I mean REALLY dated. But it was made a long time ago so I don't hold it against the producers.

Whatever you do, don't buy from these vendors.