An average movie

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.

6/10