ERIS is a mischievous goddess of chaos with too much time on her hands. Sinbad is a cocky pirate who plunders ships and cares for no one but himself. In Dreamworks' workmanlike, animated "Sinbad: ...
A passably entertaining animated entry from DreamWorks that's closer to "The Road to El Dorado" than to "Shrek," "Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas" tries too strenuously to contemporize ancient ...
The most recent animated movies have one thing in common: A-list actors lending their voice talents to get butts in theater seats. And while that wasn’t always the case, the creators of Sinbad: Legend ...
Directed by Patrick Gilmore and Tim Johnson. With the voices of Brad Pitt, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Joseph Fiennes, Michelle Pfeiffer and Dennis Haysbert. Running time 85 minutes. Classified PG (for ...
Charmless cartoon adaptation. Running time: 86 minutes. Rated PG. At the Chelsea, the Union Square, the Battery Park, others. IT’S hard to believe that DreamWorks, the same studio that brought us ...
The Disney movies that revived the animated feature — “The Little Mermaid,” “Beauty and the Beast,” “Aladdin,” “The Lion King” — wowed us in ways that live-action films couldn’t. They introduced us to ...
Practically the first thing Joseph Fiennes does in our phone chat is confess to a fib. “I’ve just realized that I told a lie,” are his exact words, spoken in an Irish-by-way-of-English accent so warm ...
Though you wouldn’t know it from “Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas,” the original Sinbad was a merchant from Baghdad, a truth-stretching, tale-spinning protagonist of the celebrated Arabian Nights. If ...
Beautifully animated but dramatically leaden feature which dusts off the heroics of the Baghdad born sailor (not that you'd know it here, thanks to the dulcet tones of one Brad Pitt). Our boy has a ...
To paraphrase Robert Frost, I’d as soon play tennis with the net down as listen to Brad Pitt ”star” as the animated title-hero of Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas. There’s something structurally amiss ...