More monsters and Beowulf

Continuing my earlier theme... I then began to muse upon the various film versions of Beowulf, remembering with particular affection 'Grendel, Grendel, Grendel', an Australian animation in the visual style of Henry's Cat, or Roobarb and Custard, and based on John Gardner's novel 'Grendel'. Here, Peter Ustinov provides the (unexpectedly dulcet) voice of Grendel, who has a strange relationship with the Dragon. Beowulf and his men are portrayed as upper-class Englishmen of a certain type, who bowl into Heorot offering to help in tones that recall the BBC newsreaders of WWII. Hrothgar and his men, conversely, are more like extras from Emmerdale. Anyway, this version which casts Grendel as 'misunderstood and loveable' is nigh on impossible to obtain, but I found this link on youtube to one of the scenes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKw5dB1ZqqE
in which a vaguely Boethian dragon explains, in song, to Grendel why he is so hated. And from here, in the video description, you can link to another website where you can watch the whole cartoon (about 1 hour). There's a short introduction from one of the directors, in which he explains the 20th-century distrust of military action that influences their presentation, and then the film starts. I STRONGLY urge you to watch at least the first five minutes, if only to experience the wondrous title song, 'Grendel, your mother loves you'.