20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)
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Reviews Counted: 21 Fresh: 19 Rotten:2 Average Rating: 7.6/10
Consensus:
One of Disney's finest live-action adventures, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea brings Jules Verne's classic sci-fi tale to vivid life, and features an awesome giant squid.
Runtime: 2 hrs 7 mins
Synopsis: Walt Disney's fun, live-action adaptation of Jules Verne's classic science-fiction story features some of the best special effects produced in the 1950s. Captain Nemo, the commander of a futuristic submarine called the Nautilus, rescues the survivors of a shipwreck and takes them on an... [More]
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Starring: Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Peter Lorre, Paul Lukas
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Reviews
Far superior to the majority of genre efforts from the period (or any period, for that matter), with production design and technical effects that have dated hardly at all.
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07/22/08
Walt Disney's production of 20000 Leagues under the Sea is very special kind of picture, combining photographic ingenuity, imaginative story telling and fiscal daring.
06/06/07
Top Critic
One of the best Disney live action films and a classic fantasy-adventure.
06/06/07
Top Critic
This is one of Disney's best, and one of the all-time adventure greats. And that, I swear by my tattoo.
07/03/06
This is one of the great movie adventures, fully deserving its canonisation in Disney World.
06/24/06
As fabulous and fantastic as anything he has ever done in cartoons is Walt Disney's 'live action' movie made from Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
03/25/06
Top Critic
20,000 Leagues is a sublime story of isolation, of disparate masculine seclusion, akin to those found in such films as Jaws and The Thing.
09/06/03
...a vision of beauty and excitement for the eye and ear. It's still fun to watch after all these years.
06/20/03
The talky 20,000 Leagues probably won't thrill kids fresh from The Matrix, but they may be interested to know that the Verne film was the effects marvel of its day.
06/14/03
Top Critic
Squid battle aside, though, 20,000 Leagues doesn't give us much more pioneering footage, and that doesn't take place until the very end. The rest of the film -- in retrospect -- is just waiting for the finale.
05/04/03
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