Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas

Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (also known as Sinbad) is a 2003 American animated adventure film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by DreamWorks Pictures. The film uses traditional animation with some computer animation. It was directed by Tim Johnson and Patrick Gilmore (in Gilmore's feature directorial debut) and written by John Logan, and stars the voices of Brad Pitt, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Joseph Fiennes. The film covers the story of Sinbad (voiced by Pitt), a pirate who travels the sea with his dog and his loyal friend Marina (voiced by Zeta-Jones) to recover the lost Book of Peace from Eris (voiced by Pfeiffer) to save his childhood friend, Prince Proteus (voiced by Fiennes), from accepting Sinbad's death sentence. The film blends elements from the 1001 Arabian Nights and classical myths.

Plot
The sailor of legend is framed by the goddess Eris for the theft of the Book of Peace, and must travel to her realm at the end of the world to retrieve it and save the life of his childhood friend Prince Proteus.

Good Qualities

 * 1) Decent story about the Goddess Eris frames Sinbad in the robbery of the Book of Peace. And Sinbad himself travelling to the end of the world in order to recover the book to save the life of his friend Prince Proteus. And unlike most DreamWorks movies (or movies in general), it focuses more on the journey that the characters go through the the characters themselves. And what it truly interesting about the story is that, despite being based on the story of Sinbad, it actually applies some Greek Mythology into the overall story.
 * 2) The characters are likable. They aren't incredibly complicated in terms of personality, but they're still interesting in they're own rights and easy to follow due to them being, as previously mentioned, pretty simple. But it's still not to the point of them being bland.
 * 3) *Sinbad is an adventurous pirate and sailor who plans on retiring to Fiji.
 * 4) *Princess Marina is a feministic Thracian ambassador to Syracuse and Sinbad's love interest.
 * 5) *Eris is the beautiful and manipulative Goddess of Discord who wants to create destruction throughout the world.
 * 6) *Prince Proteus is Sinbad's noble childhood friend and Marina’s fiancé.
 * 7) Amazing animation. The characters' movements are smooth, the color palette is bright and eye-grapping, and in a similar manner to The Road to El Dorado, the character animation has a somewhat realistic feel to it. It also uses a mix of traditional and 3-D animation (despite the fact that it arguably didn't age very well).
 * 8) *The character designs are also not just good, but also have hints of realism incorporated not just into their movements, but also into their designs. As they have a feel that's something of a mix between realism and a Disney-like aesthetic. They are also all distinct from one another, so no character (not even the minor ones that are onscreen for literally a few seconds) looks exactly identical to another one. Eris gets a special mention due to her absolutely phenomenal design and the fact that she turns into mist every time she movies. The colors used for her are also outstanding.
 * 9) The humor, like in most Dreamworks 2D animated movies (and 3-D ones as well), is amusing.
 * 10) Sinbad has an interesting backscene story.
 * 11) The music score is great composed by Rupert-Gregson-Williams.
 * 12) Good voice acting as to be expected from DreamWorks' feature-length animated films.
 * 13) The idea of Sinbad working with Pirates to try to save the book from by the goddess Eric is pretty enjoyable and an interesting idea for a story/movie.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) The story can be predictable.
 * 2) The CGI-animated backgrounds can be bit poorly done at times, despite the movie being traditionally animated.
 * 3) Sinbad can be unlikable at times.

Reception
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas received mixed reviews from critics and audiences alike, who praised the voice performances but criticized the CGI animation and storyline. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 45% based on 128 reviews with an average rating of 5.63/10. The site's consensus reads: "Competent, but not magical." Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating, has a score of 48 based on 33 reviews indicating "mixed or average reviews".

Trivia

 * This is the last DreamWorks Animation movie to use the 1997 logo until DreamWorks Animation got it's own logo the next year starting with Shrek 2.

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