Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas

I watched this movie in June when I wasn't feeling too well and I had to beg off an afternoon from work. I was tired but I was stuck in that "too awake to sleep, too tired to stay awake" stupid mode. While the 3D monsters haven't held up all that well (you can see this in the trailer), the story and animation certainly do. Unfortunately this was another Dreamworks movie that flopped at the box office and one wonders if it was just a preference for Disney films. Nowadays, people get both studios mixed up all the time. Seventeen years ago it was a different story IIRC.

The voice cast of Brad Pitt (Sinbad), Catherine Zeta-Jones (Marina), Michelle Pfeiffer (Eris) and Joseph Fiennes (Proteus) were all great choices. Michelle Pfeiffer brought a sexy kind of evil to the Eris, the goddess of discord. Like The Road to El Dorado, there seems to be a couple of old Hollywood homages in the movie and I loved how they kept the action rolling rolling rolling as Sinbad adventures to save his friend and, eventually, win the heart of Marina. There's a great story about redemption, change and friendship.

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