Louis Sahagun, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer, in the Sydney Morning Herald writes a review of Beowulf and how some scholars may be worried about the movie’s effect on students:

Because of the power of cinema, the myths told in The Wizard Of Oz, Star Wars and Lord Of The Rings, Ellwood says, “are more alive and personally interesting to most present-day students than ancient examples. They are also more likely to work their way into one’s deepest levels of consciousness, resurfacing when needed to provide character models, and a world view undergirding one’s own life journey.”

Some scholars are less than thrilled by the idea of the new 3-D film version of Beowulf. “I have colleagues who think the new Beowulf movie is a travesty and disgusting,” says David Johnson, the executive director of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists and the chairman of the department of interdisciplinary humanities at Florida State University . “Personally, I think anything that raises general public awareness of this material is fantastic.”

It’s hard to thinks that this movie was done with the same technology as the Polar Express. A movie that I enjoy. With how rare, I get to go to the movies, Beowulf is not going to earn a spot on my list.