Sinbad of the Seven Seas

Sinbad of the Seven Seas


Starring:Lou Ferrigno, John Steiner, Roland Wybenga, Ennio Girolami, Al Yamanouchi, Yehuda Efroni, Alessandra Martines, Teagan Clive, Leo Gullotta, Stefania Girolami Goodwin, Donald Hodson, Melonee Rodgers, Cork Hubbert, Romano Puppo, Attilio Cesare Lo Pinto, Armando MacRory, Giada Cozzi, Daria Nicolodi, Ted Rusoff
Director: Enzo G. Castellari, Tim Kincaid, Luigi Cozzi
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Product Type: DVD

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A dazzling adventure of faraway lands and heroic spectacles, this heart-soaring epic follows the brave Sinbad the Sailor (Lou Ferrigno, "The Incredible Hulk") in a rousing tale based on Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade." When an evil wizard named Jaffar casts a cruel spell, a good king and his happy kingdom face darkness for the first time ever.And when Jaffar demands marriage to the king's beautiful daughter, who is already engaged to a handsome prince, it will be up to Sinbad and his loyal companions to save the princess and the people ofthe kingdom. But first, he must retrieve the palace gems Jaffar has stolen and hidden away and facethe Amazon Queen, the Ghost King and the most vicious beast imaginable along the way!
Sinbad - Legend of the Seven Seas (Widescreen Edition)
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Loved it!
  • Visually Stimulating
  • When the villainy is better than the heroics...
  • EXCELLENT FAMILY MOVIE
  • Underrated Gem
Sinbad - Legend of the Seven Seas (Widescreen Edition)
Starring: Brad Pitt , Catherine Zeta-Jones , Michelle Pfeiffer , Joseph Fiennes , and Dennis Haysbert
Director: Patrick Gilmore (III) , and Tim Johnson
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ASIN: B0000C8AS7
Release Date: 2003-11-18

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Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas, an animated adventure from the DreamWorks studio, has little connection to the original fables from the Arabian Nights, but it's an entertaining romp nonetheless. Sinbad (voiced by the midwest vowels of Brad Pitt) gets commissioned by the wicked goddess Eris (Michelle Pfeiffer) to steal a magical book called the Book of Peace from the city of Syracuse--but the prince of Syracuse turns out to be a childhood friend of Sinbad's. So Eris steals the book herself and frames Sinbad, making the hero sail to the edge of the world to get it back, accompanied by Marina (Catherine Zeta-Jones), a woman he's secretly loved for years. The movie skillfully blends hand-drawn and computer images. The storyline is surprisingly well-constructed and actually has some thoughts about friendship and personal fiber, while providing all the swashbuckling, derring-do, and cliffhangers you could want. --Bret Fetzer

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Loved it!.......2007-06-20

Great voices and great animation. Awesome adventure that is well thought out and well done!

5 out of 5 stars Visually Stimulating.......2007-06-13

The character of Eros was the first I've ever seen drawn this way. You've got to see this movie just for that, but even further, it's an excellent story with great special effects.

3 out of 5 stars When the villainy is better than the heroics..........2007-03-13

Reviewing Sinbad is a treat because I got to rewatch the movie, oohing and ahing over Michelle Pfeiffer's delicious voice-performance as Eris, as well as the equally villainous animation acting. In every scene that Eris appears in you get goosebumps--you find yourself on the edge of your seat--you realize you're hanging on her every word and action. Quite honestly, this is one of the best uses of hand-drawn animation I've seen in a long time--and don't get me wrong: I love nothing better than hand-drawn animation.
I'm just sorry to say that the rest of the movie wasn't as good. And I'm even more sorry to say that the main problem lay with basic story/character elements.
As I see it,this movie's flaw is this: DreamWorks (or, as I like to call them, DreamOrcs) made it. Every low and unfunny joke, every miscast star voice, every male-bashing comment and jibe, and every less-than-heroic hero would have been fixed were Ol' Jeffy (Jeffery Katzenberg) and Co. NOT in charge of this production. Every other joke was either something crude, something sexist, or something just plain low (I'm blaming YOU, DreamOrcs!). The main flaws were Sinbad himself and his love interest, Marina (again, a DreamOrcs decision). If they had been COOL instead of being loserly, this movie would have been great. All their dialogue together is boring and/or stupid, their interaction is mediocre at best, and they don't come off believably as their characters.
For example, Sinbad, though supposedly the captain of the ship and the leader of the crew, apparently doesn't do anything but shout orders--and that only at the very end of the movie. How he became leader is beyond me--he's not the most skilled, the fastest, the strongest, CERTAINLY not the cleverest--and he's not even a good leader. And Marina, though a princess/ambassador, knows how to swing across a ship with the greatest of ease (that daring young lady on the flying trapeze), as well as knowing all of the functions and features of the Chimera--such as blades--without even having inspected the ship. She's so superhuman, how is there tension in her having to steer through the Dragon's Teeth?
Music=awesome. How often do you hear a bassoon solo in the villain's theme? And how often do you really get that thrill of swashbuckling in the trumpet section? I mean, they didn't even throw in a blatant, annoying, unfitting pop song as they usually do! It's so refreshing!
As for visuals, the 3D is there in force, and is obvious throughout the film. If you're okay with that, fine, but it gets on MY nerves when Sinbad's hands don't match up with the helm he's turning.

This movie should be your typical DreamOrcs fare: low humor, low main characters, and talking down to the audience. However, Eris's performance, combined with the strength of the story elements and concepts (I mean, how can you make fighting sea monsters politically correct?), and the great music keep this movie from being as bad as their features normally are.

As a whole, I think it's worth renting frequently--but not buying.

5 out of 5 stars EXCELLENT FAMILY MOVIE.......2007-02-06

THIS MOVIE IS GREAT FOR ALL AGES - IF YOU LIKE THRILL PACKED, ADVENTUREOUS AND EXCITING FAMILY MOVIES THEN GIVE THIS A TRY.

4 out of 5 stars Underrated Gem.......2006-02-23

With plenty of swashbuckling action and wonderful visuals, "Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas" is a wonderful tale for the whole family to watch. Much like its Dreamworks cohort, "The Road To El Dorado," "Sinbad" does have a couple of slight words, a bare bum and even a little romance. However, it is much more suitable for youngsters to watch in that the "romantic" content that seemed to bother some folks in "El Dorado" is hardly noticeable in this film if you're under the age of fourteen. Folks who linger on such thing will surely be turned off by this film, but they'll be missing out on a great adventure tale that will definitely please every youngster's dreams of heroism and high seas adventure.

Voiced by Brad Pitt, Sinbad is a likeable scalawag. Sure, he's a thief in the beginning of the flick, but he soon turns into a hero that any child could look up to. Catherine Zeta-Jones plays Marina, the saucy sidekick who ends up bailing Sinbad and his crew out of a tight spot. Other notable voices include Joseph Fiennes as Proteus, Sinbad's friend in a self-inflicted dire situation and Michelle Pfeiffer channeling her bad side a la "Batman Returns" and her character "Catwoman" to create a devilishly fun Eris, the Goddess of Chaos.

The story, simply put, is about Sinbad's attempt to recover the Book of Peace from Pfeiffer and clear his name of wrongdoing. Oh, and if he doesn't return the book in time, his best friend, Proteus, loses his head.

The bulk of the flick takes place aboard Sinbad's wonderfully drawn ship as he and his allies battle fierce sea creatures, sirens, and seek out the the literal edge of the world to recover the book from Eris. Though some of the CGI animation clashes with the handdrawn work, the story and action far outweigh this minor miscue. In short, you have a wonderful story that is well-drawn and worthy of multiple viewings.

If you or your family enjoy high sea adventure like that in "Pirates of the Caribbean" or cliffhanging adventure in the shape of "The Road to El Dorado" and the "Indiana Jones" flicks, you're sure to enjoy "Sinbad." I highly recommend this film for the family, though some parents may want to preview this before letting the tiny ones watch it.
Sinbad of the Seven Seas
Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
  • Very, very good!
  • Terrifying
  • "I'm warning you! You are forcing me to carry out my most devastating act of magical madness!"
  • A different Sinbad
  • So bad it's fun to watch
Sinbad of the Seven Seas
Starring: Lou Ferrigno , John Steiner , Roland Wybenga , Ennio Girolami , and Al Yamanouchi
Director: Enzo G. Castellari , Tim Kincaid , and Luigi Cozzi
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ASIN: B00094ARV4
Release Date: 2005-07-12

Description

A dazzling adventure of faraway lands and heroic spectacles, this heart-soaring epic follows the brave Sinbad the Sailor (Lou Ferrigno, "The Incredible Hulk") in a rousing tale based on Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade." When an evil wizard named Jaffar casts a cruel spell, a good king and his happy kingdom face darkness for the first time ever.And when Jaffar demands marriage to the king's beautiful daughter, who is already engaged to a handsome prince, it will be up to Sinbad and his loyal companions to save the princess and the people ofthe kingdom. But first, he must retrieve the palace gems Jaffar has stolen and hidden away and facethe Amazon Queen, the Ghost King and the most vicious beast imaginable along the way!

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Very, very good!.......2006-06-24

That's a really, really good movie. Buy this DVD and you will not repent it.

4 out of 5 stars Terrifying.......2006-03-19

Sinbad is a film that I'm sure film schools warn their students about. Yup, it's Cannon and it's also Italian, and it's also silly. It's directed shamelessly by hackmeister Enzo Castellari. Castellari's films are always cheap and lousy, yet somehow enthralling. Strangely enough, his Franco Nero western Keoma was actually a pretty good movie. I guess Italian directors are only truly in their element when doing westerns. Sinbad isn't as fun as Lou's Hercules films, but it's still a B lovers dream. Plotwise it's thin. John Steiner's taken over the city and plans on getting jiggy with the prince's fiancee, so Sinbad and crew go on a voyage to retrieve four magic stones that supposedly will flip flop the situation. Sinbad has to fight a big rockman, deadly amazon women, a group of lepers, an evil clone and a guy in a slimy rubber suit who looks like a member of Gwar. It's all told as a bedtime story a mother(Daria Nicolodi!) is telling her daughter, and honestly the film does not benefit from the constant narration. It's annoying and the film needs no narrator. There seems to be a underlying touch of homoeroticism, but I think that's always been associated with the Sinbad character. In fact, at one point, Lou slaps the behind of one of his crew members. Classic. It was easy to buy Lou as Hercules, he fits that image perfectly, but Sinbad isn't really Lou's kinda character. Personally I never saw Sinbad as that big of a guy. But in this film, why complain about such a thing? Italian regular John Steiner hams up his villain role to the maximum. In fact, Steiner is actually the most amusing thing about the film. He's awfully funny. I'd recommend this if you like the Ferrigno/Hercules films, low grade barbarian films like Deathstalker or if you like that silly fantasy stuff like Hercules/Xena. Bitchin'.

2 out of 5 stars "I'm warning you! You are forcing me to carry out my most devastating act of magical madness!".......2005-12-15

Someone should have told Lou Ferrigno and Cannon pictures the whole Italian made `Sword and Sandals' film genre petered out about 25 years prior to them making this film titled Sinbad and the Seven Seas (1989). Actually, Mr. Ferrigno had a couple of releases prior to this one in the 1980s, with Hercules (1983) and Hercules II (1985), both made, I'm guessing, with the intent to capitalize on the success of Arnold Schwarzenegger and the film Conan the Barbarian (1982), for better or worse. Co-directed by Enzo G. Castellari (The New Barbarians, 1990: The Bronx Warriors), Tim Kincaid (Robot Holocaust), and Luigi Cozzi (Alien Contamination, Hercules), the film stars, as I've already mentioned, Lou Ferrigno, whom those of us from the 1970s remember fondly as Bill Bixby's mountainous, green alter ego from the television series "The Incredible Hulk". Also appearing is John Steiner (Yor, the Hunter from the Future), Roland Wybenga (The Spider's Nest), Alessandra Martines (Cave of the Golden Rose), Stefania Girolami (1990: The Bronx Warriors), Donald Hodson (Cave Dwellers), Ennio Girolami (Killer Crocodile), Al Yamanouchi (2019: After the Fall of New York), Yehuda Efroni (Braddock: Missing in Action III), Teagan Clive (Alienator), and Cork Hubbert (Caveman, Under the Rainbow), as Poochi the Dwarf...oh geez...

As the film begins we learn it's based off of a story originally written by Edgar Allan Poe titled "The Thousand and Second Tale of Scheherazade". Now, I've never read the story, but I highly doubt the schlock we're in for here will come anywhere near resembling the original source material...soon we're watching as an annoying mother preparing to tell her even more annoying daughter a bedtime story, relating a tale about a sailor named Sinbad, played by Ferrigno, sporting an impressive perm and huge, bouncy pectoral muscles. Seems Sinbad and his band of fun boys, including Prince Ali (Wybenga), a Viking (Ennio Girolami), a bald Greek cook, Poochi the Dwarf, and a Chinese solider of fortune named Kantu (Yamanouchi), sporting sneakers and a rainbow skirt (let your freak flag fly, brother) are returning to the paradise city of Basra, ruled by the benevolent Calif Pal (Hodson), whose daughter the Princess Alina (Martines) is set to marry Prince Ali...but the celebration never begins as the evil vizier Jaffar (Steiner) casts a wicked spell over the city, banishing the sacred gems, all in an effort to claim the princess for his own....or something like that. Now Sinbad and his crew of flaming homersexuals set out for the four corners of the Earth to recover the sacred gems and save the princess from the evil, hammy clutches of the sinister Jaffar. One is located on the Island of Warrior Women, protected by an Amazon queen who's also a mind vampire, two more are located somewhere on the Isle of the Dead, and the fourth in `a place of great peril'...whatever. The boys end up facing all sorts of comically menacing foes on their journey, riddled with homoeroticism, before they finally return to Basra to face off against Jaffar in a completely ridiculous showdown...

This Italian production wasn't just bad, it was epically bad...the Cannon film group churned out a lot of crud in the 1980s before they went belly up, but this has to be one of their worst features I've seen so far, and that's saying a lot. The acting is beyond atrocious, followed only by the script, which was moronic beyond belief. Here's a few juicy excerpts...

This first one comes from Jaffar as Sinbad learns the evil vizier has taken over Basra...

Jaffar: The extraordinary powers that I possess make me top of the heap around here.

This next, golden nugget comes as Jaffar tries desperately to use his magics to remove the last, remaining gem from its holder...

Jaffar: For the last time...I command you, in the name of all that is evil...budge! Budge!

And finally this last bit, also from Jaffar, comes as he plans on squashing Sinbad and his men's attempts to recover the sacred gems...

Jaffar: No one can resist my will...and no one, not Prince Ali...not even his friend Sinbad...a man who I hate more than hate itself...will stand between me and my heart's desire!

A man who I hate more than hate itself? Perhaps Jaffar's blind hatred is so consuming it accounts for his continual stunningly rotten exclamations throughout the picture...sigh...the makers of this film should have just dug up Poe's corpse and violated it ten ways till Sunday rather than release this junk and crediting Poe as their inspiration. I think my favorite scenes are near the beginning. Sinbad, who's in a perpetual state of flexing throughout the film (yeah, we get it, you're all full of muscles...get over yourself already), often seen wearing skintight, purple pants, is locked away in a dungeon, while his men have been captured and taken to a torture chamber, complete with piranha tank (oh geez). The head torture dude proceeds to spew forth some of the worst puns you'll ever hear, and at one point refers to the Asian crewmember as `slant eyes'...oh, that's lovely. Just what I'd want my kids to hear, if I had any...get this later on, as if this wasn't bad enough, the Asian man begins quoting Confucius...argh! Anyway, Sinbad escapes his imprisonment by talking to a bunch of snakes, convincing them to allow him to make a snake rope out of them, telling them how he won't hurt them...yeah, I'm sure supporting his 300+ pound frame did no damage whatsoever to them...he does escape, and rescues his worthless companions in a ridiculously awful, choreographed fight sequence (the film has quite a few of these, many of them filmed in slow motion...argh!). At some point Jaffar hooks up the sorceress Soukra, played by female bodybuilder Teagan Clive (the lumpy female from the health club scene in the John Candy/Eugene Levy movie Armed and Dangerous), whose only purpose seems to be to stand around and trade lame barbs with Jaffar. Some other highlights include Sinbad battling a Styrofoam rock monster, an idiotic goo creature that shoots laser beams from its fingertips, ghost warriors from the Isle of the Dead, and then finally his evil twin as Jaffar creates a demonic clone of Sinbad near the end. I'd like to mention something about the musical scoring here...if you dig on lousy, synthesized music so common in the 1980s, then dig in because you've hit the mother lode here. Also, if you have problems following a film, or are easily distracted, never fear, as remember I told you about how this movie started off as a mother telling this tale as a bedtime story to her daughter? Well, her droning voice chimes in regularly, dumping steaming loads of unnecessary exposition because, apparently, the filmmakers either thought their movie was too difficult to follow on its own, or the audience too dumb to get all that's going on...either way, it's just another annoyance to add to the already lengthy list. I did, in fact, like the various sound effects, for what its worth.

The picture quality on this DVD, presented in widescreen anamorphic (1.85:1), looks decent enough, and the Dolby Digital mono audio comes through clearly (given the rotten dialog and shoddy musical score, maybe this wasn't a good thing). The only extra featured is a theatrical trailer for the film. The film deserves one star, but I am going to give it another just because it was so funny (I wasn't laughing with the film, but at it...).

Cookieman108

By the way, both of Lou's Hercules films are also out on DVD, featured on one, glorious DVD.

3 out of 5 stars A different Sinbad.......2005-11-14

The movie is based on an Edgar A. Poe's tale. The plot has some similarity to other Sinbad movies, but now there are not any Ray Harryhausen tricks. All the deeds carry out by Sinbad, the bodybuilder Lou Ferrigno, and his companions are genuine and real, with a lot of fights perform by skilled people and on different earth's places in their long voyage, so I was surprised by the fantasy of them. Finally a good image quality and color make a worthy DVD.

1 out of 5 stars So bad it's fun to watch.......2005-11-08

This is probably the worst movie for continuity errors I have ever seen (on the original VHS release, the back of the box had a different plot than the movie!). I always hoped MST3K would get hold of it, but it's worth buying for your own personal MST3K party! The acting is so overdone ("Budge!"), the situations are so ridiculous, and the voiceover so eggregiously horrible that it's a non-stop laugh. I mean, where else can you find a Chinese Samuri? My friends and I quote from it all the time.
After looking at the Poe story it's supposed to be based on -- well, they both have Sinbad in them... though the movie is by far Sinworse.
Sinbad - Legend of the Seven Seas (Full Screen Edition)
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Loved it!
  • Visually Stimulating
  • When the villainy is better than the heroics...
  • EXCELLENT FAMILY MOVIE
  • Underrated Gem
Sinbad - Legend of the Seven Seas (Full Screen Edition)
Starring: Brad Pitt , Catherine Zeta-Jones , Michelle Pfeiffer , Joseph Fiennes , and Dennis Haysbert
Director: Patrick Gilmore (III) , and Tim Johnson
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ASIN: B0000C8AS4
Release Date: 2003-11-18

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Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas, an animated adventure from the DreamWorks studio, has little connection to the original fables from the Arabian Nights, but it's an entertaining romp nonetheless. Sinbad (voiced by the midwest vowels of Brad Pitt) gets commissioned by the wicked goddess Eris (Michelle Pfeiffer) to steal a magical book called the Book of Peace from the city of Syracuse--but the prince of Syracuse turns out to be a childhood friend of Sinbad's. So Eris steals the book herself and frames Sinbad, making the hero sail to the edge of the world to get it back, accompanied by Marina (Catherine Zeta-Jones), a woman he's secretly loved for years. The movie skillfully blends hand-drawn and computer images. The storyline is surprisingly well-constructed and actually has some thoughts about friendship and personal fiber, while providing all the swashbuckling, derring-do, and cliffhangers you could want. --Bret Fetzer

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Loved it!.......2007-06-20

Great voices and great animation. Awesome adventure that is well thought out and well done!

5 out of 5 stars Visually Stimulating.......2007-06-13

The character of Eros was the first I've ever seen drawn this way. You've got to see this movie just for that, but even further, it's an excellent story with great special effects.

3 out of 5 stars When the villainy is better than the heroics..........2007-03-13

Reviewing Sinbad is a treat because I got to rewatch the movie, oohing and ahing over Michelle Pfeiffer's delicious voice-performance as Eris, as well as the equally villainous animation acting. In every scene that Eris appears in you get goosebumps--you find yourself on the edge of your seat--you realize you're hanging on her every word and action. Quite honestly, this is one of the best uses of hand-drawn animation I've seen in a long time--and don't get me wrong: I love nothing better than hand-drawn animation.
I'm just sorry to say that the rest of the movie wasn't as good. And I'm even more sorry to say that the main problem lay with basic story/character elements.
As I see it,this movie's flaw is this: DreamWorks (or, as I like to call them, DreamOrcs) made it. Every low and unfunny joke, every miscast star voice, every male-bashing comment and jibe, and every less-than-heroic hero would have been fixed were Ol' Jeffy (Jeffery Katzenberg) and Co. NOT in charge of this production. Every other joke was either something crude, something sexist, or something just plain low (I'm blaming YOU, DreamOrcs!). The main flaws were Sinbad himself and his love interest, Marina (again, a DreamOrcs decision). If they had been COOL instead of being loserly, this movie would have been great. All their dialogue together is boring and/or stupid, their interaction is mediocre at best, and they don't come off believably as their characters.
For example, Sinbad, though supposedly the captain of the ship and the leader of the crew, apparently doesn't do anything but shout orders--and that only at the very end of the movie. How he became leader is beyond me--he's not the most skilled, the fastest, the strongest, CERTAINLY not the cleverest--and he's not even a good leader. And Marina, though a princess/ambassador, knows how to swing across a ship with the greatest of ease (that daring young lady on the flying trapeze), as well as knowing all of the functions and features of the Chimera--such as blades--without even having inspected the ship. She's so superhuman, how is there tension in her having to steer through the Dragon's Teeth?
Music=awesome. How often do you hear a bassoon solo in the villain's theme? And how often do you really get that thrill of swashbuckling in the trumpet section? I mean, they didn't even throw in a blatant, annoying, unfitting pop song as they usually do! It's so refreshing!
As for visuals, the 3D is there in force, and is obvious throughout the film. If you're okay with that, fine, but it gets on MY nerves when Sinbad's hands don't match up with the helm he's turning.

This movie should be your typical DreamOrcs fare: low humor, low main characters, and talking down to the audience. However, Eris's performance, combined with the strength of the story elements and concepts (I mean, how can you make fighting sea monsters politically correct?), and the great music keep this movie from being as bad as their features normally are.

As a whole, I think it's worth renting frequently--but not buying.

5 out of 5 stars EXCELLENT FAMILY MOVIE.......2007-02-06

THIS MOVIE IS GREAT FOR ALL AGES - IF YOU LIKE THRILL PACKED, ADVENTUREOUS AND EXCITING FAMILY MOVIES THEN GIVE THIS A TRY.

4 out of 5 stars Underrated Gem.......2006-02-23

With plenty of swashbuckling action and wonderful visuals, "Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas" is a wonderful tale for the whole family to watch. Much like its Dreamworks cohort, "The Road To El Dorado," "Sinbad" does have a couple of slight words, a bare bum and even a little romance. However, it is much more suitable for youngsters to watch in that the "romantic" content that seemed to bother some folks in "El Dorado" is hardly noticeable in this film if you're under the age of fourteen. Folks who linger on such thing will surely be turned off by this film, but they'll be missing out on a great adventure tale that will definitely please every youngster's dreams of heroism and high seas adventure.

Voiced by Brad Pitt, Sinbad is a likeable scalawag. Sure, he's a thief in the beginning of the flick, but he soon turns into a hero that any child could look up to. Catherine Zeta-Jones plays Marina, the saucy sidekick who ends up bailing Sinbad and his crew out of a tight spot. Other notable voices include Joseph Fiennes as Proteus, Sinbad's friend in a self-inflicted dire situation and Michelle Pfeiffer channeling her bad side a la "Batman Returns" and her character "Catwoman" to create a devilishly fun Eris, the Goddess of Chaos.

The story, simply put, is about Sinbad's attempt to recover the Book of Peace from Pfeiffer and clear his name of wrongdoing. Oh, and if he doesn't return the book in time, his best friend, Proteus, loses his head.

The bulk of the flick takes place aboard Sinbad's wonderfully drawn ship as he and his allies battle fierce sea creatures, sirens, and seek out the the literal edge of the world to recover the book from Eris. Though some of the CGI animation clashes with the handdrawn work, the story and action far outweigh this minor miscue. In short, you have a wonderful story that is well-drawn and worthy of multiple viewings.

If you or your family enjoy high sea adventure like that in "Pirates of the Caribbean" or cliffhanging adventure in the shape of "The Road to El Dorado" and the "Indiana Jones" flicks, you're sure to enjoy "Sinbad." I highly recommend this film for the family, though some parents may want to preview this before letting the tiny ones watch it.
Sinbad - Legend of the Seven Seas (Full Screen Edition)
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Loved it!
  • Visually Stimulating
  • When the villainy is better than the heroics...
  • EXCELLENT FAMILY MOVIE
  • Underrated Gem
Sinbad - Legend of the Seven Seas (Full Screen Edition)
Starring: Brad Pitt , Catherine Zeta-Jones , Michelle Pfeiffer , Joseph Fiennes , and Dennis Haysbert
Director: Patrick Gilmore (III) , and Tim Johnson
Manufacturer: Dreamworks Video
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ASIN: B0002VEWBA
Release Date: 2004-10-26

Amazon.com

Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas, an animated adventure from the DreamWorks studio, has little connection to the original fables from the Arabian Nights, but it's an entertaining romp nonetheless. Sinbad (voiced by the midwest vowels of Brad Pitt) gets commissioned by the wicked goddess Eris (Michelle Pfeiffer) to steal a magical book called the Book of Peace from the city of Syracuse--but the prince of Syracuse turns out to be a childhood friend of Sinbad's. So Eris steals the book herself and frames Sinbad, making the hero sail to the edge of the world to get it back, accompanied by Marina (Catherine Zeta-Jones), a woman he's secretly loved for years. The movie skillfully blends hand-drawn and computer images. The storyline is surprisingly well-constructed and actually has some thoughts about friendship and personal fiber, while providing all the swashbuckling, derring-do, and cliffhangers you could want. --Bret Fetzer

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Loved it!.......2007-06-20

Great voices and great animation. Awesome adventure that is well thought out and well done!

5 out of 5 stars Visually Stimulating.......2007-06-13

The character of Eros was the first I've ever seen drawn this way. You've got to see this movie just for that, but even further, it's an excellent story with great special effects.

3 out of 5 stars When the villainy is better than the heroics..........2007-03-13

Reviewing Sinbad is a treat because I got to rewatch the movie, oohing and ahing over Michelle Pfeiffer's delicious voice-performance as Eris, as well as the equally villainous animation acting. In every scene that Eris appears in you get goosebumps--you find yourself on the edge of your seat--you realize you're hanging on her every word and action. Quite honestly, this is one of the best uses of hand-drawn animation I've seen in a long time--and don't get me wrong: I love nothing better than hand-drawn animation.
I'm just sorry to say that the rest of the movie wasn't as good. And I'm even more sorry to say that the main problem lay with basic story/character elements.
As I see it,this movie's flaw is this: DreamWorks (or, as I like to call them, DreamOrcs) made it. Every low and unfunny joke, every miscast star voice, every male-bashing comment and jibe, and every less-than-heroic hero would have been fixed were Ol' Jeffy (Jeffery Katzenberg) and Co. NOT in charge of this production. Every other joke was either something crude, something sexist, or something just plain low (I'm blaming YOU, DreamOrcs!). The main flaws were Sinbad himself and his love interest, Marina (again, a DreamOrcs decision). If they had been COOL instead of being loserly, this movie would have been great. All their dialogue together is boring and/or stupid, their interaction is mediocre at best, and they don't come off believably as their characters.
For example, Sinbad, though supposedly the captain of the ship and the leader of the crew, apparently doesn't do anything but shout orders--and that only at the very end of the movie. How he became leader is beyond me--he's not the most skilled, the fastest, the strongest, CERTAINLY not the cleverest--and he's not even a good leader. And Marina, though a princess/ambassador, knows how to swing across a ship with the greatest of ease (that daring young lady on the flying trapeze), as well as knowing all of the functions and features of the Chimera--such as blades--without even having inspected the ship. She's so superhuman, how is there tension in her having to steer through the Dragon's Teeth?
Music=awesome. How often do you hear a bassoon solo in the villain's theme? And how often do you really get that thrill of swashbuckling in the trumpet section? I mean, they didn't even throw in a blatant, annoying, unfitting pop song as they usually do! It's so refreshing!
As for visuals, the 3D is there in force, and is obvious throughout the film. If you're okay with that, fine, but it gets on MY nerves when Sinbad's hands don't match up with the helm he's turning.

This movie should be your typical DreamOrcs fare: low humor, low main characters, and talking down to the audience. However, Eris's performance, combined with the strength of the story elements and concepts (I mean, how can you make fighting sea monsters politically correct?), and the great music keep this movie from being as bad as their features normally are.

As a whole, I think it's worth renting frequently--but not buying.

5 out of 5 stars EXCELLENT FAMILY MOVIE.......2007-02-06

THIS MOVIE IS GREAT FOR ALL AGES - IF YOU LIKE THRILL PACKED, ADVENTUREOUS AND EXCITING FAMILY MOVIES THEN GIVE THIS A TRY.

4 out of 5 stars Underrated Gem.......2006-02-23

With plenty of swashbuckling action and wonderful visuals, "Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas" is a wonderful tale for the whole family to watch. Much like its Dreamworks cohort, "The Road To El Dorado," "Sinbad" does have a couple of slight words, a bare bum and even a little romance. However, it is much more suitable for youngsters to watch in that the "romantic" content that seemed to bother some folks in "El Dorado" is hardly noticeable in this film if you're under the age of fourteen. Folks who linger on such thing will surely be turned off by this film, but they'll be missing out on a great adventure tale that will definitely please every youngster's dreams of heroism and high seas adventure.

Voiced by Brad Pitt, Sinbad is a likeable scalawag. Sure, he's a thief in the beginning of the flick, but he soon turns into a hero that any child could look up to. Catherine Zeta-Jones plays Marina, the saucy sidekick who ends up bailing Sinbad and his crew out of a tight spot. Other notable voices include Joseph Fiennes as Proteus, Sinbad's friend in a self-inflicted dire situation and Michelle Pfeiffer channeling her bad side a la "Batman Returns" and her character "Catwoman" to create a devilishly fun Eris, the Goddess of Chaos.

The story, simply put, is about Sinbad's attempt to recover the Book of Peace from Pfeiffer and clear his name of wrongdoing. Oh, and if he doesn't return the book in time, his best friend, Proteus, loses his head.

The bulk of the flick takes place aboard Sinbad's wonderfully drawn ship as he and his allies battle fierce sea creatures, sirens, and seek out the the literal edge of the world to recover the book from Eris. Though some of the CGI animation clashes with the handdrawn work, the story and action far outweigh this minor miscue. In short, you have a wonderful story that is well-drawn and worthy of multiple viewings.

If you or your family enjoy high sea adventure like that in "Pirates of the Caribbean" or cliffhanging adventure in the shape of "The Road to El Dorado" and the "Indiana Jones" flicks, you're sure to enjoy "Sinbad." I highly recommend this film for the family, though some parents may want to preview this before letting the tiny ones watch it.
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas [Region 2]
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Loved it!
  • Visually Stimulating
  • When the villainy is better than the heroics...
  • EXCELLENT FAMILY MOVIE
  • Underrated Gem
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas [Region 2]
Starring: Brad Pitt , Catherine Zeta-Jones , Michelle Pfeiffer , Joseph Fiennes , and Dennis Haysbert
Director: Patrick Gilmore (III) , and Tim Johnson
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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  1. Treasure Planet
  2. Atlantis - The Lost Empire
  3. The Road to El Dorado
  4. Joseph - King of Dreams
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ASIN: B0000C66BA

Amazon.com

Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas, an animated adventure from the DreamWorks studio, has little connection to the original fables from the Arabian Nights, but it's an entertaining romp nonetheless. Sinbad (voiced by the midwest vowels of Brad Pitt) gets commissioned by the wicked goddess Eris (Michelle Pfeiffer) to steal a magical book called the Book of Peace from the city of Syracuse--but the prince of Syracuse turns out to be a childhood friend of Sinbad's. So Eris steals the book herself and frames Sinbad, making the hero sail to the edge of the world to get it back, accompanied by Marina (Catherine Zeta-Jones), a woman he's secretly loved for years. The movie skillfully blends hand-drawn and computer images. The storyline is surprisingly well-constructed and actually has some thoughts about friendship and personal fiber, while providing all the swashbuckling, derring-do, and cliffhangers you could want. --Bret Fetzer

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Loved it!.......2007-06-20

Great voices and great animation. Awesome adventure that is well thought out and well done!

5 out of 5 stars Visually Stimulating.......2007-06-13

The character of Eros was the first I've ever seen drawn this way. You've got to see this movie just for that, but even further, it's an excellent story with great special effects.

3 out of 5 stars When the villainy is better than the heroics..........2007-03-13

Reviewing Sinbad is a treat because I got to rewatch the movie, oohing and ahing over Michelle Pfeiffer's delicious voice-performance as Eris, as well as the equally villainous animation acting. In every scene that Eris appears in you get goosebumps--you find yourself on the edge of your seat--you realize you're hanging on her every word and action. Quite honestly, this is one of the best uses of hand-drawn animation I've seen in a long time--and don't get me wrong: I love nothing better than hand-drawn animation.
I'm just sorry to say that the rest of the movie wasn't as good. And I'm even more sorry to say that the main problem lay with basic story/character elements.
As I see it,this movie's flaw is this: DreamWorks (or, as I like to call them, DreamOrcs) made it. Every low and unfunny joke, every miscast star voice, every male-bashing comment and jibe, and every less-than-heroic hero would have been fixed were Ol' Jeffy (Jeffery Katzenberg) and Co. NOT in charge of this production. Every other joke was either something crude, something sexist, or something just plain low (I'm blaming YOU, DreamOrcs!). The main flaws were Sinbad himself and his love interest, Marina (again, a DreamOrcs decision). If they had been COOL instead of being loserly, this movie would have been great. All their dialogue together is boring and/or stupid, their interaction is mediocre at best, and they don't come off believably as their characters.
For example, Sinbad, though supposedly the captain of the ship and the leader of the crew, apparently doesn't do anything but shout orders--and that only at the very end of the movie. How he became leader is beyond me--he's not the most skilled, the fastest, the strongest, CERTAINLY not the cleverest--and he's not even a good leader. And Marina, though a princess/ambassador, knows how to swing across a ship with the greatest of ease (that daring young lady on the flying trapeze), as well as knowing all of the functions and features of the Chimera--such as blades--without even having inspected the ship. She's so superhuman, how is there tension in her having to steer through the Dragon's Teeth?
Music=awesome. How often do you hear a bassoon solo in the villain's theme? And how often do you really get that thrill of swashbuckling in the trumpet section? I mean, they didn't even throw in a blatant, annoying, unfitting pop song as they usually do! It's so refreshing!
As for visuals, the 3D is there in force, and is obvious throughout the film. If you're okay with that, fine, but it gets on MY nerves when Sinbad's hands don't match up with the helm he's turning.

This movie should be your typical DreamOrcs fare: low humor, low main characters, and talking down to the audience. However, Eris's performance, combined with the strength of the story elements and concepts (I mean, how can you make fighting sea monsters politically correct?), and the great music keep this movie from being as bad as their features normally are.

As a whole, I think it's worth renting frequently--but not buying.

5 out of 5 stars EXCELLENT FAMILY MOVIE.......2007-02-06

THIS MOVIE IS GREAT FOR ALL AGES - IF YOU LIKE THRILL PACKED, ADVENTUREOUS AND EXCITING FAMILY MOVIES THEN GIVE THIS A TRY.

4 out of 5 stars Underrated Gem.......2006-02-23

With plenty of swashbuckling action and wonderful visuals, "Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas" is a wonderful tale for the whole family to watch. Much like its Dreamworks cohort, "The Road To El Dorado," "Sinbad" does have a couple of slight words, a bare bum and even a little romance. However, it is much more suitable for youngsters to watch in that the "romantic" content that seemed to bother some folks in "El Dorado" is hardly noticeable in this film if you're under the age of fourteen. Folks who linger on such thing will surely be turned off by this film, but they'll be missing out on a great adventure tale that will definitely please every youngster's dreams of heroism and high seas adventure.

Voiced by Brad Pitt, Sinbad is a likeable scalawag. Sure, he's a thief in the beginning of the flick, but he soon turns into a hero that any child could look up to. Catherine Zeta-Jones plays Marina, the saucy sidekick who ends up bailing Sinbad and his crew out of a tight spot. Other notable voices include Joseph Fiennes as Proteus, Sinbad's friend in a self-inflicted dire situation and Michelle Pfeiffer channeling her bad side a la "Batman Returns" and her character "Catwoman" to create a devilishly fun Eris, the Goddess of Chaos.

The story, simply put, is about Sinbad's attempt to recover the Book of Peace from Pfeiffer and clear his name of wrongdoing. Oh, and if he doesn't return the book in time, his best friend, Proteus, loses his head.

The bulk of the flick takes place aboard Sinbad's wonderfully drawn ship as he and his allies battle fierce sea creatures, sirens, and seek out the the literal edge of the world to recover the book from Eris. Though some of the CGI animation clashes with the handdrawn work, the story and action far outweigh this minor miscue. In short, you have a wonderful story that is well-drawn and worthy of multiple viewings.

If you or your family enjoy high sea adventure like that in "Pirates of the Caribbean" or cliffhanging adventure in the shape of "The Road to El Dorado" and the "Indiana Jones" flicks, you're sure to enjoy "Sinbad." I highly recommend this film for the family, though some parents may want to preview this before letting the tiny ones watch it.
Sinbad - Legend of the Seven Seas (Widescreen Edition)
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Loved it!
  • Visually Stimulating
  • When the villainy is better than the heroics...
  • EXCELLENT FAMILY MOVIE
  • Underrated Gem
Sinbad - Legend of the Seven Seas (Widescreen Edition)
Starring: Brad Pitt , Catherine Zeta-Jones , Michelle Pfeiffer , Joseph Fiennes , and Dennis Haysbert
Director: Patrick Gilmore (III) , and Tim Johnson
Manufacturer: Dreamworks Video
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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  2. Atlantis - The Lost Empire
  3. The Road to El Dorado
  4. Joseph - King of Dreams
  5. Atlantis - Milo's Return

ASIN: B0002VEWB0
Release Date: 2004-10-26

Amazon.com

Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas, an animated adventure from the DreamWorks studio, has little connection to the original fables from the Arabian Nights, but it's an entertaining romp nonetheless. Sinbad (voiced by the midwest vowels of Brad Pitt) gets commissioned by the wicked goddess Eris (Michelle Pfeiffer) to steal a magical book called the Book of Peace from the city of Syracuse--but the prince of Syracuse turns out to be a childhood friend of Sinbad's. So Eris steals the book herself and frames Sinbad, making the hero sail to the edge of the world to get it back, accompanied by Marina (Catherine Zeta-Jones), a woman he's secretly loved for years. The movie skillfully blends hand-drawn and computer images. The storyline is surprisingly well-constructed and actually has some thoughts about friendship and personal fiber, while providing all the swashbuckling, derring-do, and cliffhangers you could want. --Bret Fetzer

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Loved it!.......2007-06-20

Great voices and great animation. Awesome adventure that is well thought out and well done!

5 out of 5 stars Visually Stimulating.......2007-06-13

The character of Eros was the first I've ever seen drawn this way. You've got to see this movie just for that, but even further, it's an excellent story with great special effects.

3 out of 5 stars When the villainy is better than the heroics..........2007-03-13

Reviewing Sinbad is a treat because I got to rewatch the movie, oohing and ahing over Michelle Pfeiffer's delicious voice-performance as Eris, as well as the equally villainous animation acting. In every scene that Eris appears in you get goosebumps--you find yourself on the edge of your seat--you realize you're hanging on her every word and action. Quite honestly, this is one of the best uses of hand-drawn animation I've seen in a long time--and don't get me wrong: I love nothing better than hand-drawn animation.
I'm just sorry to say that the rest of the movie wasn't as good. And I'm even more sorry to say that the main problem lay with basic story/character elements.
As I see it,this movie's flaw is this: DreamWorks (or, as I like to call them, DreamOrcs) made it. Every low and unfunny joke, every miscast star voice, every male-bashing comment and jibe, and every less-than-heroic hero would have been fixed were Ol' Jeffy (Jeffery Katzenberg) and Co. NOT in charge of this production. Every other joke was either something crude, something sexist, or something just plain low (I'm blaming YOU, DreamOrcs!). The main flaws were Sinbad himself and his love interest, Marina (again, a DreamOrcs decision). If they had been COOL instead of being loserly, this movie would have been great. All their dialogue together is boring and/or stupid, their interaction is mediocre at best, and they don't come off believably as their characters.
For example, Sinbad, though supposedly the captain of the ship and the leader of the crew, apparently doesn't do anything but shout orders--and that only at the very end of the movie. How he became leader is beyond me--he's not the most skilled, the fastest, the strongest, CERTAINLY not the cleverest--and he's not even a good leader. And Marina, though a princess/ambassador, knows how to swing across a ship with the greatest of ease (that daring young lady on the flying trapeze), as well as knowing all of the functions and features of the Chimera--such as blades--without even having inspected the ship. She's so superhuman, how is there tension in her having to steer through the Dragon's Teeth?
Music=awesome. How often do you hear a bassoon solo in the villain's theme? And how often do you really get that thrill of swashbuckling in the trumpet section? I mean, they didn't even throw in a blatant, annoying, unfitting pop song as they usually do! It's so refreshing!
As for visuals, the 3D is there in force, and is obvious throughout the film. If you're okay with that, fine, but it gets on MY nerves when Sinbad's hands don't match up with the helm he's turning.

This movie should be your typical DreamOrcs fare: low humor, low main characters, and talking down to the audience. However, Eris's performance, combined with the strength of the story elements and concepts (I mean, how can you make fighting sea monsters politically correct?), and the great music keep this movie from being as bad as their features normally are.

As a whole, I think it's worth renting frequently--but not buying.

5 out of 5 stars EXCELLENT FAMILY MOVIE.......2007-02-06

THIS MOVIE IS GREAT FOR ALL AGES - IF YOU LIKE THRILL PACKED, ADVENTUREOUS AND EXCITING FAMILY MOVIES THEN GIVE THIS A TRY.

4 out of 5 stars Underrated Gem.......2006-02-23

With plenty of swashbuckling action and wonderful visuals, "Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas" is a wonderful tale for the whole family to watch. Much like its Dreamworks cohort, "The Road To El Dorado," "Sinbad" does have a couple of slight words, a bare bum and even a little romance. However, it is much more suitable for youngsters to watch in that the "romantic" content that seemed to bother some folks in "El Dorado" is hardly noticeable in this film if you're under the age of fourteen. Folks who linger on such thing will surely be turned off by this film, but they'll be missing out on a great adventure tale that will definitely please every youngster's dreams of heroism and high seas adventure.

Voiced by Brad Pitt, Sinbad is a likeable scalawag. Sure, he's a thief in the beginning of the flick, but he soon turns into a hero that any child could look up to. Catherine Zeta-Jones plays Marina, the saucy sidekick who ends up bailing Sinbad and his crew out of a tight spot. Other notable voices include Joseph Fiennes as Proteus, Sinbad's friend in a self-inflicted dire situation and Michelle Pfeiffer channeling her bad side a la "Batman Returns" and her character "Catwoman" to create a devilishly fun Eris, the Goddess of Chaos.

The story, simply put, is about Sinbad's attempt to recover the Book of Peace from Pfeiffer and clear his name of wrongdoing. Oh, and if he doesn't return the book in time, his best friend, Proteus, loses his head.

The bulk of the flick takes place aboard Sinbad's wonderfully drawn ship as he and his allies battle fierce sea creatures, sirens, and seek out the the literal edge of the world to recover the book from Eris. Though some of the CGI animation clashes with the handdrawn work, the story and action far outweigh this minor miscue. In short, you have a wonderful story that is well-drawn and worthy of multiple viewings.

If you or your family enjoy high sea adventure like that in "Pirates of the Caribbean" or cliffhanging adventure in the shape of "The Road to El Dorado" and the "Indiana Jones" flicks, you're sure to enjoy "Sinbad." I highly recommend this film for the family, though some parents may want to preview this before letting the tiny ones watch it.
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas [Region 2]
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Loved it!
  • Visually Stimulating
  • When the villainy is better than the heroics...
  • EXCELLENT FAMILY MOVIE
  • Underrated Gem
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas [Region 2]
Starring: Brad Pitt , Catherine Zeta-Jones , Michelle Pfeiffer , Joseph Fiennes , and Dennis Haysbert
Director: Patrick Gilmore (III) , and Tim Johnson
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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Similar Items:
  1. Treasure Planet
  2. Atlantis - The Lost Empire
  3. The Road to El Dorado
  4. Joseph - King of Dreams
  5. Atlantis - Milo's Return

ASIN: B0000XOOE0

Amazon.com

Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas, an animated adventure from the DreamWorks studio, has little connection to the original fables from the Arabian Nights, but it's an entertaining romp nonetheless. Sinbad (voiced by the midwest vowels of Brad Pitt) gets commissioned by the wicked goddess Eris (Michelle Pfeiffer) to steal a magical book called the Book of Peace from the city of Syracuse--but the prince of Syracuse turns out to be a childhood friend of Sinbad's. So Eris steals the book herself and frames Sinbad, making the hero sail to the edge of the world to get it back, accompanied by Marina (Catherine Zeta-Jones), a woman he's secretly loved for years. The movie skillfully blends hand-drawn and computer images. The storyline is surprisingly well-constructed and actually has some thoughts about friendship and personal fiber, while providing all the swashbuckling, derring-do, and cliffhangers you could want. --Bret Fetzer

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Loved it!.......2007-06-20

Great voices and great animation. Awesome adventure that is well thought out and well done!

5 out of 5 stars Visually Stimulating.......2007-06-13

The character of Eros was the first I've ever seen drawn this way. You've got to see this movie just for that, but even further, it's an excellent story with great special effects.

3 out of 5 stars When the villainy is better than the heroics..........2007-03-13

Reviewing Sinbad is a treat because I got to rewatch the movie, oohing and ahing over Michelle Pfeiffer's delicious voice-performance as Eris, as well as the equally villainous animation acting. In every scene that Eris appears in you get goosebumps--you find yourself on the edge of your seat--you realize you're hanging on her every word and action. Quite honestly, this is one of the best uses of hand-drawn animation I've seen in a long time--and don't get me wrong: I love nothing better than hand-drawn animation.
I'm just sorry to say that the rest of the movie wasn't as good. And I'm even more sorry to say that the main problem lay with basic story/character elements.
As I see it,this movie's flaw is this: DreamWorks (or, as I like to call them, DreamOrcs) made it. Every low and unfunny joke, every miscast star voice, every male-bashing comment and jibe, and every less-than-heroic hero would have been fixed were Ol' Jeffy (Jeffery Katzenberg) and Co. NOT in charge of this production. Every other joke was either something crude, something sexist, or something just plain low (I'm blaming YOU, DreamOrcs!). The main flaws were Sinbad himself and his love interest, Marina (again, a DreamOrcs decision). If they had been COOL instead of being loserly, this movie would have been great. All their dialogue together is boring and/or stupid, their interaction is mediocre at best, and they don't come off believably as their characters.
For example, Sinbad, though supposedly the captain of the ship and the leader of the crew, apparently doesn't do anything but shout orders--and that only at the very end of the movie. How he became leader is beyond me--he's not the most skilled, the fastest, the strongest, CERTAINLY not the cleverest--and he's not even a good leader. And Marina, though a princess/ambassador, knows how to swing across a ship with the greatest of ease (that daring young lady on the flying trapeze), as well as knowing all of the functions and features of the Chimera--such as blades--without even having inspected the ship. She's so superhuman, how is there tension in her having to steer through the Dragon's Teeth?
Music=awesome. How often do you hear a bassoon solo in the villain's theme? And how often do you really get that thrill of swashbuckling in the trumpet section? I mean, they didn't even throw in a blatant, annoying, unfitting pop song as they usually do! It's so refreshing!
As for visuals, the 3D is there in force, and is obvious throughout the film. If you're okay with that, fine, but it gets on MY nerves when Sinbad's hands don't match up with the helm he's turning.

This movie should be your typical DreamOrcs fare: low humor, low main characters, and talking down to the audience. However, Eris's performance, combined with the strength of the story elements and concepts (I mean, how can you make fighting sea monsters politically correct?), and the great music keep this movie from being as bad as their features normally are.

As a whole, I think it's worth renting frequently--but not buying.

5 out of 5 stars EXCELLENT FAMILY MOVIE.......2007-02-06

THIS MOVIE IS GREAT FOR ALL AGES - IF YOU LIKE THRILL PACKED, ADVENTUREOUS AND EXCITING FAMILY MOVIES THEN GIVE THIS A TRY.

4 out of 5 stars Underrated Gem.......2006-02-23

With plenty of swashbuckling action and wonderful visuals, "Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas" is a wonderful tale for the whole family to watch. Much like its Dreamworks cohort, "The Road To El Dorado," "Sinbad" does have a couple of slight words, a bare bum and even a little romance. However, it is much more suitable for youngsters to watch in that the "romantic" content that seemed to bother some folks in "El Dorado" is hardly noticeable in this film if you're under the age of fourteen. Folks who linger on such thing will surely be turned off by this film, but they'll be missing out on a great adventure tale that will definitely please every youngster's dreams of heroism and high seas adventure.

Voiced by Brad Pitt, Sinbad is a likeable scalawag. Sure, he's a thief in the beginning of the flick, but he soon turns into a hero that any child could look up to. Catherine Zeta-Jones plays Marina, the saucy sidekick who ends up bailing Sinbad and his crew out of a tight spot. Other notable voices include Joseph Fiennes as Proteus, Sinbad's friend in a self-inflicted dire situation and Michelle Pfeiffer channeling her bad side a la "Batman Returns" and her character "Catwoman" to create a devilishly fun Eris, the Goddess of Chaos.

The story, simply put, is about Sinbad's attempt to recover the Book of Peace from Pfeiffer and clear his name of wrongdoing. Oh, and if he doesn't return the book in time, his best friend, Proteus, loses his head.

The bulk of the flick takes place aboard Sinbad's wonderfully drawn ship as he and his allies battle fierce sea creatures, sirens, and seek out the the literal edge of the world to recover the book from Eris. Though some of the CGI animation clashes with the handdrawn work, the story and action far outweigh this minor miscue. In short, you have a wonderful story that is well-drawn and worthy of multiple viewings.

If you or your family enjoy high sea adventure like that in "Pirates of the Caribbean" or cliffhanging adventure in the shape of "The Road to El Dorado" and the "Indiana Jones" flicks, you're sure to enjoy "Sinbad." I highly recommend this film for the family, though some parents may want to preview this before letting the tiny ones watch it.

DVD:

  1. Battle Skipper - The Movie
  2. Troy/Beyond The Movie: Troy - Ancient Myths and Unsolved Mysteries
  3. The Littlest Horse Thieves
  4. Cold Steel
  5. The Pornographer
  6. The Wild Angels/Hell's Belles
  7. Merchant of Death
  8. The Royal Hunt of the Sun
  9. Rumble in Hong Kong
  10. Heat

DVD List

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Marina del Otro Lado del Tiempo

Detective

Tiny Heroes (REGION 1) (NTSC)

DVD: The Holy Land

Creatures From The Abyss