I'm with Maxx on this one; I thought there was some scripting problems with Beowulf as well.....but the most important part is that the CG environments held together. The characters worked. That makes if far more likely that more adaptations are on the way using the same process, or enhancements (maybe the quadcores will give the needed boost to the renderfarms to pay for all the extra reflections and so forth to make the eyes seem a bit more alive). It wasn't Rings or Harry Potter, and frankly it couldn't have been; there just wasn't enough actual -story- there. Not in the movie, and certainly not in the poem. Beowulf may not have been the greatest thing since sliced bread. But think about using the same techniques, with some modifications, to create 'Dragonflight's' Pern. Or Elfquest. Or any of the other sci-fi/fantasy genre where you can duck the phoney makeup with a mocapped performance with keyframed enhancements. Not a common method perhaps, but in certain situations, maybe the best method for now...