Actress Angelina Jolie accompanied by her partner Brad Pitt made a dazzling appearance for the European premiere of "Beowulf" at the Vue Cinema on Sunday in London.

Sporting a semi-sheer black top, tight leather pants and Christian Louboutin peep-toes, Angelina signed autographs and chatted with some of the hundreds of fans in London's Leicester Square prior to the movie’s premiere.

"It's so, so nice to see all these fans here, it always is," she told reporters as hundreds of people lined up outside the brightly lit runway to the theatre. "I haven't been here for a little bit. I lived here for a few years, and I do plan to come back more often."

Asked about the film Angelina said she thinks "It’s remarkable that is has the ratings it has. It’s quite an extraordinary film and some of it shocked me."
 
Brad Pitt on the other hand, kept quiet and looked pretty wearing a black button-down, black slacks, a gray wool coat completed by his typical newsboy cap.

"I’m off duty tonight," he told reporters as he made his way into the theater. Both he and Angelina wore a poppy pinned on them in support of fallen soldiers on Remembrance Day.

In the motion-capture animated film based on the oldest surviving English poem about the Viking warrior Beowulf, who rescues a Danish kingdom from the deadly beast Grendel, the 32-year-old actress plays Grendel's mother, who plots to destroy the warrior.

"I was excited to get a call saying that I was going to be working with Bob Zemeckis. And then I was told I was going to be a lizard," Angelina recalled. "He showed me this picture of a woman half-painted in gold (and) then a lizard. I have kids so I thought, 'That's great. It's so bizarre. I'm going to be this crazy reptilian creature.' "

During a recent conference for the movie, Angelina said she was shocked by how real the scene in which she performs looked. She expected them to be different enough that her kids could watch the film.

"I got a little shy. I was really surprised that I felt that exposed. I didn't expect ourselves to come out as much. I didn't expect it to feel as real, and so because of especially the type of character I play, it was kind of funny at first," she said.

"There are certain moments where I felt actually shy - and called home, just to explain that the fun movie that I had done that was digital animation was, in fact, a little different than [what] we expected," she added.