Sinbad - A Lenda dos Sete Mares

Bland music, marquee-friendly casting and crassly contemporary dialogue give this film the mechanical feel of a marketing exercise, not a movie.

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.

From the cheerfully anachronistic dialogue by Gladiator scribe John Logan to the spirited voice work by Michelle Pfeiffer, Brad Pitt and Catherine Zeta-Jones, the non-visual elements of the film are great, swashbuckling fun.

A perfectly serviceable, if not especially inspired rendition of the oft-told Sinbad tale.

This isn't Sin-bad. It is just Sin- mediocre.

The old Sinbad movies gave that sailor the narrative respect he deserved. This version is formulaic and crass, hardly the stuff of grand adventure.

Handily outdoes [Treasure Planet], with bravura action set pieces, a surprisingly complex romantic triangle, and thoughtful exploration of moral issues and character.

This is nothing more than a direct-to-video family film some reason being given the all-star big screen debut it doesn't deserve.

Fun, if standard, animated adventure with battles, innuendo.

If the animation under the direction of Tim Johnson and Patrick Gilmore wasn't so compelling, you could just close your eyes and listen.

Despite the cool monsters, the cute slobbering dog and Catherine Zeta-Jones's swashbuckling Marina, "Sinbad" comes off as surprisingly unmagical, with characters you only half care about.

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.

Business-as-usual movie that isn't trying to make anything more than a medium-size splash.

A movie carefully engineered for an audience of exactly nobody.

Lacking in wit, originality and spectacle, it is passable at best.

Sinbad is both square and as flat as Sinbad and his sailors imagine the Earth to be.

Sinbad is rich with ideas and images.

It only takes one big miscalculation to sink a movie. Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas has two.

Enough sleek cartooning and swashbuckling action to satisfy young and old audiences alike.