My Top 10 Fantasy Genre Movies

This film is a fantasy lovers dream come true. Foul beasts, evil wizards, buxom maidens and gratuitous violence abound in this thoroughly entertaining animated feature. The plot and the characters can be a bit hokey and the voice acting is only adequate, but this is easy to overlook considering to overall experience is pretty satisfying. The best way that I could describe this film is that it's like the He-Man and the Masters of the Universe series, but for adults. It's also very similar to the film Heavy Metal, but the continuous story line is more enjoyable than the series of short vignettes in that film. You're actually able to invest some emotion into the characters and plot instead of being whisked away to a different time and place. So for those fantasy genre lovers out there and for those of you who enjoyed films like Conan the Barbarian and The Beastmaster, I would definitely recommend watching this movie, especially if your in the mood for a entertaining and enjoyable animated adventure.

Robert Zemeckis is one of the most talented directors of his generation. Unfortunately for him, his peers, such as Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, have overshadowed him for much of his career. Fortunately for us though, despite this, he has continued to produce top quality films in nearly all of his many endeavors. Beowulf is no exception. Applying a combination of live actors and CGI graphics seen in the children's holiday film Polar Express, Zemeckis is able to deliver an as-to-now unseen medium for storytelling in the action/adventure/fantasy genre. The CGI characters show believable facial expressions and body movements, when this is paired with some spectacular and astonishing action sequences, that only CGI could make possible, the end result is truly jaw dropping. Some may complain that the subtleties and imagery of the epic poem on witch the film is based have been thrown to the wayside, and replaced with violence, gore and Hollywood-type stunts. This may be true, but I was never a fan of the original Beowulf. I thought that it lacked edge. This film, however delivers lots of edge, in fact several edges slicing through the air to pierce your jugular! Fans of the fantasy genre have few quality films to choose from once the LOTR series is subtracted from the equation. This film, in my opinion, can be added to this small group. My only two complaints are that the story seems too short, and that I didn't get to see it in 3d in the theater. P.S. For fans of the original poem, PBS produced a mini-series more faithful to this work that you may be interested in (snore).