I was impressed by motion capture animation technique used by Zemeckis. By having  actors wear motion capture suits while moving around and feeding the information from the suits into a motion capture program, the director has created very realistic looking animation. The facial expressions as well as the rest of the movements have a realism I haven't seen before. The look of the film is very sharp.

Beowulf looks good on DVD. It is presented in an anamorphic 2.35:1 aspect ratio and is completely free of any flaws. Beowulf is packaged with English, French and Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtracks.

Beowulf: Director's Cut contains only a minute or so of extra footage from what was seen in theaters and a little more gore. It does have a few  extras though including four featurettes related to the film: "A Hero's Journey: The Making of Beowulf" (23:55) gives a very good look at how the actors worked with technology to bring the motion-captured film to life, "Beasts of Burden: Designing the Creatures of Beowulf" (6:55) gives a nice look at the artwork and designs for the film's beasts, "The Origins of Beowulf" (5:12) looks at the historical beginnings of the film. The final supplement on the front page of the DVD menu, "Creating the Ultimate Beowulf" (1:59) is more like a promo clip focusing on how Zemeckis envisioned a modern take on Beowulf. "The Art of Beowulf" (5:24) combines video snippets from the actual film and interviews with the director, producer and production designer.  It shows artwork and talks about how the creators wanted to make the 'ultimate' look for the film. The collection of six deleted scenes (10:09) are all incomplete and feature early animatics. The theatrical trailer is also included.