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Posted : 1 year, 11 months ago on 3 June 2022 10:33
I personally don't mind Dreamworks. They are either hit(How to Train Your Dragon, Prince of Egypt) or miss(Shark Tale, Bee Movie), but when they are good, they are good. Sinbad:Legend of the Seven Seas was surprisingly good and a thoroughly enjoyable animated film. It could have been longer though, and one or two parts could have done with more excitement. That said, the traditional animation is excellent, very colourful and vibrant, and the score is energetic and has a sense of adventure. The story mostly is engaging, with a sequence with seductive sirens standing out as well as the exciting escape from a bird of prey, and the script is smart and witty particularly the banter between Sinbad and Marina. The characters are likable and very well voiced. I am not the biggest fan of Brad Pitt, but he does a solid job as a somewhat flawed yet likable Sinbad, while Catherine Zeta-Jones is fine as the sassy Marina. Eris is quite sinister and fabulously voiced by Michelle Pfeiffer. In conclusion, a thoroughly enjoyable movie. 8/10 Bethany Cox
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An average movie
Posted : 10 years, 8 months ago on 23 August 2013 03:33
Nowadays, DreamWorks is, after Pixar which is the undisputed Champion, the world leader in CGI animated pictures. However, at first they also made some hand-drawn animated features but, except for ‘The Prince of Egypt’, they all pretty much flopped. This feature was the last one they made in this style and they never looked back ever since. Honestly, I think it’s a shame that they dropped this animation technique and it is even more disheartening concerning Disney which had almost 80 years of legacy in this style. Anyway, even though this movie barely made any money, I don’t think it was that bad at all. Indeed, the animation was pretty nice and the story was quite entertaining. I thought it was quite neat to have a story about Sinbad and, apparently, they were planning to release 6 sequels, each movie featuring one of the 7 voyages of Sinbad, but since ‘The Road to El Dorado’ was already a disappointment at the box-office, they scratched this idea even before starting production. It shows how confident they were with the material. Anyway, in this genre, the classic tale, it never reaches the level of some classics made by Disney. To conclude, it is one of the many hand-drawn animated features that crashed and burned at the box-office while the CGI animated movies were emerging at a high velocity, but I think it is still worth a look, especially if you like the genre.
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