AFI Award |
| Best Achievement in Production Design |
| Best Original Music Score |
Gold Hugo |
| Best Feature |
This is a terrific film. Great story and compelling animation all told from the view point of the monster Grendel.
I got a hold of a VHS copy of this movie recently after watching it as a child over and over again. Evidently hard to find in America, this film depicts the story of Beowulf from the monsters point of view.
Grendel, Grendel, Grendel is a truly fantastic animated film based on the monster Grendel in the ancient Beowolf legend. It is one of my all time favourite films.
In the technical sense this is "limited" animation - the handful of animators (just four are credited) charged with bringing the story to life restrict themselves, when they can, to less than the full 24 frames per second, and often use all manner of cunning tricks to avoid having to animate at all. But the animation is emphatically NOT limited in any other sense.
Spoiler warning: This review contains some general discussion of specific events in the film, presented as examples of my points. There are no important giveaways, in my humble opinion.
