Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas 2003

Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: Sinbad is both square and as flat as Sinbad and his sailors imagine the Earth to be. Read more

Christine Dolen, Miami Herald: Fantastic images aside, Sinbad isn't much more than the tale of a 'bad' guy getting in touch with his good side, as well as a love story that makes monster-loving little boys go 'yuck!' And that's what's too bad about Sinbad. Read more

Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: [A] sharp and thrilling adventure combining 21st century animation technology with a refreshingly retro story of heroes and villains, and giant creatures that haunt the skies and seas. Read more

Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: A perfectly serviceable, if not especially inspired rendition of the oft-told Sinbad tale. Read more

Mark Caro, Chicago Tribune: Neither sinful nor particularly bad, the movie nonetheless diverts us when it should transport us. Read more

Elvis Mitchell, New York Times: What's bad? Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas. Read more

Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: The voice talent here is so good that you can't help but long for a new live-action take on this jaunty and crafty hero. Read more

Ty Burr, Boston Globe: It only takes one big miscalculation to sink a movie. Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas has two. Read more

Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: There's little here that isn't overly familiar and formulaic, nothing that's even in the same arena with the eye candy of those vivid adventures. Read more

Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle: For decades swashbucklers have buckled under at the box office, and Sinbad lacks the magic to reverse their fortune. Read more

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Ray Conlogue, Globe and Mail: [Lacks] the sparkle and inventiveness of the stories that inspired it. Read more

Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News: Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas lacks symmetry. But never is it remotely ho-hum. Read more

Ella Taylor, L.A. Weekly: Ray Harryhausen's original stop-motion Sinbad classics are a hard act to follow, but Tim Johnson and Patrick Gilmore's update, couched in a gorgeous palette of indigo and dark rose, is a big, beautiful thrill all its own. Read more

Gene Seymour, Newsday: Clever banter and eye-popping set pieces raise it above most other DreamWorks' non-Shrek fare. Still, it's pretty standard-issue. Read more

Jami Bernard, New York Daily News: The old Sinbad movies gave that sailor the narrative respect he deserved. This version is formulaic and crass, hardly the stuff of grand adventure. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: There's plenty of action -- so much so, in fact, that I often felt like I was watching a video game without the interactive qualities that make such a diversion enjoyable and addictive. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Sinbad is rich with ideas and images. Read more

C.W. Nevius, San Francisco Chronicle: This isn't Sin-bad. It is just Sin- mediocre. Read more

Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune: This animated adventure pops off the screen, flaunting state-of -the-art technology. But the story is straight out of the 1940s B-movie library. Read more

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Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: An efficiently amusing and unsurprisingly polished blend of traditional hand-drawn and computer-generated animation techniques. Read more

Claudia Puig, USA Today: The 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. Read more

Todd McCarthy, Variety: A passably entertaining animated entry from DreamWorks that's closer to The Road to El Dorado than to Shrek. Read more

Ed Park, Village Voice: The film is adept and generally enjoyable. Read more