Bland music, marquee-friendly casting and crassly contemporary dialogue give this film the mechanical feel of a marketing exercise, not a movie.
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07/08/03
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Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003)
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Reviews Counted:30
Fresh:15
Rotten:15
Average Rating:5.9/10
Consensus: Competent, but not magical.
Theatrical Release:Jul 2, 2003 Wide
Box Office: $26,288,320
Synopsis: Academy Award® nominee Brad Pitt ("Twelve Monkeys"), Academy Award® winner Catherine Zeta-Jones ("Chicago"), three-time Oscar® nominee Michelle Pfeiffer ("Dangerous Liaisons," "The Fabulous Baker... [More]
Starring: Brad Pitt, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Michelle Pfeiffer, Joseph Fiennes
Director: Tim Johnson, Patrick Gilmore
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Reviews for Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
Top CriticBusiness-as-usual movie that isn't trying to make anything more than a medium-size splash.
07/08/03
Top CriticIt's less the story of Sinbad than a compilation of greatest hits from Mythland.
07/03/03
Top CriticA movie carefully engineered for an audience of exactly nobody.
07/02/03
Top CriticThe effects are competent, the action has exciting moments and the story is interesting enough, but the parts don't add up to a compelling sum.
07/02/03
Top CriticAn efficiently amusing and unsurprisingly polished blend of traditional hand-drawn and computer-generated animation techniques.
07/02/03
Top CriticThis isn't Sin-bad. It is just Sin- mediocre.
07/02/03
Top CriticFrom the cheerfully anachronistic dialogue by Gladiator scribe John Logan to the spirited voice work by Michelle Pfeiffer, Brad Pitt and Catherine Zeta-Jones, the non-visual elements of the film are great, swashbuckling fun.
07/02/03
Top CriticThe old Sinbad movies gave that sailor the narrative respect he deserved. This version is formulaic and crass, hardly the stuff of grand adventure.
07/02/03
Top Critic[Lacks] the sparkle and inventiveness of the stories that inspired it.
07/02/03
Top CriticLacking in wit, originality and spectacle, it is passable at best.
07/02/03
Top CriticSinbad is both square and as flat as Sinbad and his sailors imagine the Earth to be.
07/02/03
Top CriticSinbad is rich with ideas and images.
07/02/03
Top CriticIt only takes one big miscalculation to sink a movie. Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas has two.
07/02/03
Top CriticThe film is adept and generally enjoyable.
07/01/03
Top CriticA passably entertaining animated entry from DreamWorks that's closer to The Road to El Dorado than to Shrek.
07/01/03
Top CriticThere's almost nothing in it that couldn't have been done -- in less time, for about the same money and probably better -- as a live-action picture.
07/01/03
Top CriticClever banter and eye-popping set pieces raise it above most other DreamWorks' non-Shrek fare. Still, it's pretty standard-issue.
07/01/03
Top CriticWhat's bad? Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas.
07/01/03
Top CriticThis animated adventure pops off the screen, flaunting state-of -the-art technology. But the story is straight out of the 1940s B-movie library.
07/01/03
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