But with a bag of popcorn and an open mind, this flick will provide a fine getaway on the open seas. It may actually exceed the low expectations you might have for the hundredth remake of the Sinbad legend. I didn't pay much attention to the plot – and, frankly, most of this movie's intended audience won't either – but that's fine: The point of the movie are ships and monsters and swordfights.This is a swashbuckling romp of a movie, with a couple of clever plot tweaks and some jaw-dropping animation. The plot is a pretty convoluted affair, focusing on Sinbad, his old friend and rival Proteus (voiced by Joseph Fiennes), and Proteus's gorgeous fiancee Marina (voiced by Catherine Zeta-Jones) as they're manipulated by Eris (voiced by Michelle Pfeiffer), the sexy goddess of chaos, into searching for some dubious artifact called the Book of Peace (a plot device so blatantly artificial that it's really more the animators than the screenwriter who make the thing seem like an object worth vying for). ![]() You can tell this was a movie made by guys for whom the old Ray Harryhausen Sinbad pictures will always be the real Sinbad (that's sure how I feel too!), so rather than compete with or ignore those old chestnuts, they've decided to do an animated riff on them – adding in a little Indiana Jones and, not surprisingly, Gladiator to keep things thoroughly post-modern and up-to-date. ![]() ![]() Most of the fun has to do with how lovingly directors Tim Johnson & Patrick Gilmore, and screenwriter John Logan ( Gladiator), have brought the saga of Sinbad, the roguish adventurer (well-voiced by Brad Pitt), to animated life.
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