When Beowulf asks Grendel’s mother, ... The film cleverly ties Beowulf’s final monster fight to the earlier episodes with Grendel and his mother (something the original fails to do).

On this exam, mark Y for Yes. It’s got power and depth, and two kings whose greatness is diluted by hubris, and a thrilling dragon fight, and the demon Grendel as a tortured outcast, and a naked ...

Then he fights Grendel’s mother, a water monster, diving into her demonic pond (where Grendel crawled to die) and running her through with a sword, which promptly melts. And then , back in ...

Directed by Icelandic-Canadian director Sturla Gunnarsson, Beowulf & Grendel borrows its plot from the Old English epic poem of anonymous authorship, Beowulf.The iconic piece of literature has ...

And so, Beowulf succeeds in slaying Grendel’s mother on her home turf, even though she is full of fury and helped by a bevy of underwater sea monsters. And here is the problem with Robert ...

He has to fight Grendel’s mother, and he kills her. Then 50 years pass, ... Because when she fights with Beowulf, she almost kills him. He’s very frightened of her.

The first comic based on Beowulf, called "Beowulf: Dragon Slayer," in 1975, for instance, illustrates Grendel's mother as a weak, wolf-like humanoid. She doesn't even get to battle Beowulf.

‘Beowulf’ is in a fight with itself. By John Horn . Nov. 15, ... Grendel’s mother, which some translators have described as a “hag” and “wretch,” is now the unfairly curvaceous Jolie ...

Beowulf, a young, valiant and strong hero, travels from his own land of the Geats (in what is now southwestern Sweden) to fight Grendel, a man-eating monster who terrorizes Heorot, the grand hall ...