Customer Reviews

Grendel, Grendel, Grendel [VHS]

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

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.

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.

No matter how 'rare' it is.

Even 50 bucks is a bit unrealistic.

The only way I'd ever shell out an amount of money even close to that is if the movie was in DVD format.

And my limit is 30 bucks.

Oh. A little nudge nudge wink wink. There's technology out there that can let you record DVDs.

I suggest people start looking into it.