The Legend of Zorro (2005)
Average Rating: 4.8/10
Reviews Counted: 133
Fresh: 35 | Rotten: 98
Zorro can survive a lot of things, but it looks like he can't survive marriage.
Average Rating: 4.7/10
Critic Reviews: 33
Fresh: 8 | Rotten: 25
Zorro can survive a lot of things, but it looks like he can't survive marriage.
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The legendary Mexican hero returns to the screen in this swashbuckling sequel to the 1998 box-office hit The Mask of Zorro. It's 1850, and the people of California, eager to improve their difficult lot in life, have launched a campaign to become part of the United States. Don Alejandro de la Vega (Antonio Banderas) has become aware of a plot by moneyed Europeans to block the campaign for statehood through nefarious means, and it looks as if Alejandro's heroic alter ego, Zorro, may have to return
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Cast
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Antonio Banderas
Don Alejandro de la Veg... -
Catherine Zeta-Jones
Elena de la Vega -
Rufus Sewell
Armand -
Nick Chinlund
Jacob McGivens -
Julio Oscar Mechoso
Frey Felipe -
Shuler Hensley
Pike -
Michael Emerson
Harrigan -
Adrian Alonso
Joaquin de la Vega -
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All Critics (143) | Top Critics (35) | Fresh (38) | Rotten (100) | DVD (20)
It's Zorro, the domesticated blade!
Top CriticIn every imaginable way, this is a lesser film than the original.
The Legend of Zorro spirals into a convoluted series of incidents, bordering on the impenetrable until they're finally revealed as nonsensical.
The passionless string of the hoariest clichés is burnished with the phony luster of an I Can't Believe It's Not Butter commercial, and its plot seems to have been amalgamated by a computer program.
Though there's worse entertainment around, there may be more people rabid for the return of Prohibition than for a Zorro sequel seven years after the fact.
The CG-effects to replicate crowds and buildings, the fake scenery, the flimsy plot and the cheap dialogue all spell a budget-conscious production.
The Legend of Zorro is a campier sequel, occasionally given too much to childish antics. But once the story really kicks in, it transforms into a fine adventure film and a worthy addition to the Zorro film legacy.
Reasonably rousing, breezily hokey, and touchingly retrograde
Catherine Zeta Jones' eminent allure and Antonio Banderas' leading man charm are reduced to mere furnishings for an ostensibly child-friendly adventure movie filled with tedious stunt sequences, endless sword fights and too many brutal murders.
Loud sequel to the PG-13 rated Mask of Zorro.
excessively lengthy, swashbuckling-by-numbers exercise in tedium that fills the cinema with entirely the wrong kind of zs.
The ludicrous plot and special effects featuring cartoon physics means this zero is strictly for those under the age of eight or so.
The ludicrous plot and special effects featuring cartoon physics means this zero is strictly for those under the age of eight or so.
We don't really see who Zorro really is. Instead of being the good-hearted peasant turned swash-buckling gentleman, he's often a bungling buffoon.
Pior que a infusão do nacionalismo pós-11 de Setembro na trama é a dinâmica formulaica e irritante da família Zorro.
Big stars, big budget, big stunts sabotaged by a scatterbrained plot.
Bring home the Legend.
Audience Reviews for The Legend of Zorro
Super Reviewer
There are plenty of funny scenes with the family (including the son) of the swashbuckling hero. And awesome action sequences of what Zorro comes to fight and rescue against the new villains - the best sequence is the train at the end.
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- Don Alejandro de la Vega/Zorro: What are you doing in a bar?!
- Joaquin de la Vega: What are you doing in jail?!
- Don Alejandro de la Vega/Zorro: I asked you first!
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Why make Elena (CZJ) a shrewish wife? Why have a cartoonish villain out to spoil the party and rule the world? It's all too formulaic and thus disappointing. I suppose other action oriented series like Indiana Jones or Back to the Future could be likewise criticized, but they never failed to entertain. One thing a Zorro movie should never be is boring; this one comes close.