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The Legend of Zorro (2005)

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Average Rating: 4.8/10
Reviews Counted: 134
Fresh: 35 | Rotten: 99

Zorro can survive a lot of things, but it looks like he can't survive marriage.

26

Average Rating: 4.7/10
Critic Reviews: 31
Fresh: 8 | Rotten: 23

Zorro can survive a lot of things, but it looks like he can't survive marriage.

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Average Rating: 3.2/5
User Ratings: 432,136

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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

Jan 31, 2006

$45.4M

Sony Pictures Entertainment

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All Critics (144) | Top Critics (32) | Fresh (38) | Rotten (101) | DVD (20)

It's Zorro, the domesticated blade!

November 1, 2005 Full Review Source: Village Voice | Comment
Village Voice
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In every imaginable way, this is a lesser film than the original.

October 31, 2005 Full Review Source: Ebert & Roeper | Comment
Ebert & Roeper
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The Legend of Zorro spirals into a convoluted series of incidents, bordering on the impenetrable until they're finally revealed as nonsensical.

October 28, 2005 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | Comment
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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.

October 28, 2005 Full Review Source: USA Today | Comment
USA Today
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The CG-effects to replicate crowds and buildings, the fake scenery, the flimsy plot and the cheap dialogue all spell a budget-conscious production.

October 28, 2005 Full Review Source: Toronto Star | Comment
Toronto Star
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Zorro is misnamed, since it's less about the legend than what happens when the legend goes home and gets yelled at by his wife.

October 28, 2005 Full Review Source: Slate | Comment
Slate
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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.

March 29, 2011 Full Review Source: ComingSoon.net | Comment
ComingSoon.net

Reasonably rousing, breezily hokey, and touchingly retrograde

September 1, 2009 Full Review Source: CinePassion | Comment
CinePassion

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.

April 17, 2009 Full Review Source: ColeSmithey.com | Comment
ColeSmithey.com

Loud sequel to the PG-13 rated Mask of Zorro.

July 24, 2008 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
Common Sense Media

excessively lengthy, swashbuckling-by-numbers exercise in tedium that fills the cinema with entirely the wrong kind of zs.

July 10, 2007 Full Review Source: Eye for Film | Comment
Eye for Film

The ludicrous plot and special effects featuring cartoon physics means this zero is strictly for those under the age of eight or so.

May 28, 2007 Full Review Source: Upstage Magazine | Comment
Upstage Magazine

The ludicrous plot and special effects featuring cartoon physics means this zero is strictly for those under the age of eight or so.

May 28, 2007 Full Review Source: Upstage Magazine | Comment
Upstage Magazine

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.

September 27, 2006 Comment

Pior que a infusão do nacionalismo pós-11 de Setembro na trama é a dinâmica formulaica e irritante da família Zorro.

May 11, 2006 Comment
Cinema em Cena

Big stars, big budget, big stunts sabotaged by a scatterbrained plot.

February 18, 2006 Full Review Source: Laramie Movie Scope | Comment
Laramie Movie Scope

Bring home the Legend.

February 8, 2006 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | Comment
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Audience Reviews for The Legend of Zorro

Great to see Antonio Banderas (as the swashbuckling hero) and Catherine Zeta-Jones (as the daughter of the original Zorro) return to this action-adventure sequel of 1998's The Mask of Zorro. Banderas brings out with great comic sense and Zeta-Jones' role is enhanced and she gets to be more than a pretty face.There are

December 28, 2005
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Dean McKenna

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Here is the perfect example of having a big budget, a big studio, and big actors, but it just doesn't work. I would like to say that I enjoyed 'The Legend of Zorro' on at least some level, but I really didn't. I appreciate the director attempting to input a unique, generic tone in this, when it turns out to be a mess.

January 24, 2011
CreedsDelight

Super Reviewer

    1. Don Alejandro de la Vega/Zorro: What are you doing in a bar?!
    2. Joaquin de la Vega: What are you doing in jail?!
    3. Don Alejandro de la Vega/Zorro: I asked you first!
    – Submitted by Nick S (33 days ago)

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