Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
DreamWorks Distribution | Release Date: July 2, 2003 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
48
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Mixed or average reviews based on 33 Critic Reviews
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9
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21
Negative:
3
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60
Chicago ReaderBill Stamets
The heaving computer-generated sea swells doesn't match the conventionally animated characters. The action scenes are too antic, but directors Tim Johnson and Patrick Gilmore serve up a sweet romantic subplot. Read full review
60
The A.V. ClubTasha Robinson
Given the talent on display in Sinbad, and the winning brio it dredges out of questionable material, it's easy to wonder what Dreamworks' animation department could accomplish if it stopped following Disney's lead and started forging new paths of its own. Read full review
60
Village VoiceEd Park
Adept and generally enjoyable. Read full review
50
New York PostJonathan Foreman
It makes not just the "Thief of Baghdad" and the junky Ray Harryhausen movies of the '60s and '70s but even Disney's recent "Aladdin" seem positively multicultural by comparison. Read full review
50
Washington PostStephen Hunter
A movie carefully engineered for an audience of exactly nobody. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesKenneth Turan
A pleasure to look at. It's filled with fine, imaginative moves and an overarching sense of visual freedom, a feeling of play that entices us into enjoyment. But, when it comes to dialogue and story, this Sinbad apparently used up all its initiative changing its hero's ethnicity to generic Greco-Roman. Read full review
50
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
This voyage is strictly one for the disposable present, however quaintly old-fashioned the hand-drawn work that the animators have blended with 3D effects. (Tots will twitch during the grown-up relationship parts, and teens will groan at the kiddie sops.) Read full review
50
Charlotte ObserverLawrence Toppman
Logan's so carried away by computerized magic that he forgets to make sense. Read full review
50
NewsweekDavid Ansen
Comes off as surprisingly unmagical, with characters you only half care about. Read full review
50
VarietyTodd McCarthy
In its animated work, DreamWorks has repeatedly flip-flopped between the hip and the square. This time out, it's as if the company tried to apply a hip approach to a square subject, with unresolved results. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleC.W. Nevius
Predictable. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Ray Conlogue
Sinbad lacks, alas, the sparkle and inventiveness of the stories that inspired it. Read full review
50
Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
The story may be too slow and complicated for the youngest moviegoers. Read full review
50
Dallas ObserverRobert Wilonsky
All Sinbad has going for it is Pfeiffer's Eris. Read full review
50
The New York TimesA.O. Scott
To invoke the name of another underwhelming new film, Sinbad is legally bland. Read full review
50
Portland OregonianShawn Levy
As two-dimensional animation, Sinbad is passably attractive, reaching a visual height when it arrives in the surreal, shifting Tartarus. Read full review
50
Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean Axmaker
The ploddingly literal screenplay by John Logan doesn't help matters. Read full review
40
Washington PostDesson Thomson
A respectable effort that doesn't care to do more than course smoothly and effortlessly through familiar waters. Read full review
40
TV Guide MagazineAngel Cohn
The characters are mostly flat and unoriginal -- - but Pfeiffer delivers a wonderfully villainous voice performance. Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
Feels like the little animated adventure nobody loved. Read full review
40
New York Magazine (Vulture)Peter Rainer
People who see Sinbad for its star power--a big selling point in the movie’s marketing campaign--are being oversold. Read full review
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