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to be good enough to compliment a technically amazing film. I have no complaints about any of the performances, but similarly, none stood out as being especially good - not even Sir Anthony Hopkins managed to really impress.

Much ado has been made by concerned citizens about the amount of nudity in this "cartoon" film. First off, it's not really a cartoon. It a live-action film that was skinned inCGI so as to eliminate the need for complicated makeup and even more complicated stunt shots. Better that the whole thing is CGI than have those embarrassing suspension-of-disbelief-shatte ring moments where live action switches to CGI while the hero does something humanly impossible. Secondly, there is no real nudity. Oh sure, there are a couple of bum shots, and a lot of Austin Powers style penis-covering, but never are any genitalia on display. Even Jolie's much ballyhooed "nude scene" is a reasonably tasteful shot of her character's body covered in a golden filmy substance. Only vague shapes are visible, no pornographic detail.

In fact, besides the story having a no-holds-barred, heroic strong-man plot, there are very important lessons concerning pride and lust, and the shame that is their ultimate reward. In short,Zemeckis' Beowulf gets back to the core of the hero story: an outsider swooping in to the rescue, and a firm moral underpinning.

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