Sinbad Legend of the Seven Seas (2003) Movie REVIEW | Does It Hold Up? 

Wait, the siren scene 100% has a point to it. It's for Marina to prove her independence and bad-ass tactics to save the crew.

One of the most underrated movies , its a fantastic animation . Right up there with Aladdin and the book of jungle

That movie was amazing! When I was little I had a humongous crush on Sinbad and just love how the animators drew him! Love the story the music and the villainess Eris! Really hope Dreamworks make more Sinbad entertainment in the future hopefully just like the Netflix Spirit: Ring Free series.

This movie is underated

I'm still baffled on why this movie failed

This movie deserves another chance ! The animation is just smooth, flowing and full of surprises! Love the Soundtrack too! Even though there’s no songs except for the Sirens part, it still works as a very unique movie focusing on the adventure and the story! Love the character design for Sinbad, Marina and Eris! Sinbad himself is just so developed from being a selfish “black-hearted” thief to a wise and selfless hero! It would be awesome too if Dreamworks would revive the existence of this movie by giving it its own tv series just like Netflix did to Spirit! I’m pretty sure it would be interesting to see what adventures Sinbad, Marina and his crew would end up after the end of the movie to continue its legacy!

But remember Cetus (the kraken thing) is a celestial creature, I think it’s fair to say no mortal means can permanently kill it. Btw Cetus was my favorite thing about this movie I really love its design

I had a major crush on Eris growing up. She was the most flirtatious female I saw in movies up till then (I watched PBS Kids growing up). The music score for this movie is still incredible, and the adventuring action made me want to be a sailor for a time. I loved the dialogue throughout it and the humor really struck a nice chord with me.

It's a shame this movie wasn't successful at its time in the box office or reviews. I have to admit the CGI was distracting but the rest of the film was cool. Liked your review and keep up the good work. Sinbad rocks 😒⛵💫😀

I'm sad that this movie didn't do well it deserves an another chance..

I love this film, and have been fortunate enough to meet many people who worked on it. They weren’t very fond of it but I still think it’s grand, funny, and fantastically characterized. Eris is easily a favourite animated villain.

In my opinion, way better than Hercules. That was so hard to watch knowing greek mythology.

It's actually one of my favorite films of all time. It's just really fun to watch and the music is fun. Also the short interactive animated adventure on the DVD is awesome.

I love this movie. Indeed the CG is meh and I do wish we had a flashback to when the characters were young to understand their feelings more. SHOW DON'T TELL

for me this is my favourite movie..It was 'the' movie of my childhood, it had everything i loved to be in a movie, i loved the music, it reminded me of the odessey a little bit, I loved the scenery, the design of syracuse, the design of the ships, basically everything... and sinbad is still one of my favourite characters in movie history. -For me-, this is my favourite movie, maybe tying up with treasure planet.

Sinbad, Road to Eldorado, and Spirit are the best of classic animation movie of DreamWorks. I wish movies could go back to this kind of animation.

Er(r)is is one of my favorite animated villains. Michelle Pfeiffer is fantastic in the role and the character has stuck with me all these years.

This movie has a lot of lore potential. The CGI wasn't spectacular, sure, but I really thought after rewatching and still think this show deserves a spin-off series.

I don't care what anyone says about this movie. I Loved this movie!!! It's definitely one of the most animated movies besides Kubo and the Two Strings, The Iron Giant, Road to El Dorado, Quest for Camelot, and more underrated gems. All of the characters (the main ones: Sinbad, Marina, Proteus all had arcs. The animation of Erie and the sirens was very creative and good, while the CHI was awful. Eris is one of the best villains ever. A lot like a classic Disney villain. What's sad is that Marina is awesome too, but she doesn't get much credit because everyone is more focused on Eris (she was the best character in the film, but Marina was awesome, too.) None of the supporting characters had arcs or were important, but the three main characters did. I love these quest adventure films and I like how this one had Greek Mythology and a pirate in it. The movie had its problems and could've been better, but overall I love the film and would still love a sequel. Wish it would have sequels and spinoffs to flush out the characters and mythology more.

God I love this animation... I'm from Iran and as a kid i saw the dubbed version and OH MY GOD IT WAS AMAZING. so many more jokes were thrown in the middle and personally it just made the animation way more interesting and emotional (in the more serious scenes) for me. till this day i still prefer the dubbed version.

As a child this film defind for me swashbuckeling adventures, alongside Treasure Planet and live action Peter Pan (although not living up to them). Needless to say that what this film lacks on a technical level it imo makes up in form of childlike wonder and adventure!

I love this film so much but there is one major mistake. At the start of the movie, the world is shown as a sphere but toward the end, Sinbad has to cross the edge of the world, suggesting that it is flat. Which is it? I still love this movie despite the mistake.

I see it went right over the guy's head that the whole plot of the movie revolves around Greek mythology. I thought it was a fun way of introducing children to it, maybe even awaken interest in Greek myths. It did for me anyway.

You didin't mention the fenomenal music this movie has

Underrated doesn't do this film justice. It's a really good film and I was really confused as to why it got as much hate as it did. Then I realized, the Blu-Ray version released in June of 2019, and that's the version I watched, so I'm interested to see how it compares to DVD quality, but even beyond that I found great animation decisions that blow some of the stuff today straight out of the water. I still, have NO IDEA, what people had against this movie, and I read TONS of reviews. Another problem was a lot of the reviews were conflicting. Some would say no character arcs that stood out, while another would comment on the uniqueness of some of the characters. It was really strange to find out how consistent it was that when someone mentioned something they disliked, another reviewer would tout that as an awesome part of the movie and it was actually this other thing that was bad. In reality, the reviews were really half-baked and it felt like a dismissed assignment the reviewers had to do, when really they just wanted to watch the new Terminator. It's a puzzle to figure out what the true problem was, other than it was a product of its time. Dreamworks had recently made Shrek at that time and audience expectations were thriving for the CG style w/ over the top humor. Also, Treasure Planet and Atlantis came out just before this movie, and I think the animation style was taken for granted, even though those are praised for their animation as well. Problem is, they miss out on an amazingly well animated piece of art. Tragic.

I think the movie is great. Really rivals the animation of a movie like Eldorado. Definitely a different movie, but I think it's is overall a very good creative piece.

I don't care what other say. This is my most favourite animated movie of all time!

Poor noble, selfless and kind hearted Proteus, is all i can say

When I say I'm bisexual, I mean I'm attracted to every woman to have walked the earth and Sinbad

When I was a kid, I always love this movie, Still like the film, but not as much as back then.

I love this film and I don't like disney's Aladdin all that much.

saw this movie as a kid and i fucking loved it.

BRUH THIS MOVIE. Was so mmhhh so goood I loved it so much when I was younger and I wish I still had the movie. Thank god there is a thing call movie box.

My problem with the film that it feel like it start from the middle of the story, not stop me from enjoye it but for me it feel like a half movie.

I want to tell you something important when it comes to the history of this movie. There is a high possibility that it didn't actually lose 125 million dollars and it's just a big misunderstanding. You might be thinking that I'm crazy since there are tons of articles which say it did but think about it, the film earned 80 million on a 60 million budget. I know that it wasn't a success but by doing the math, it doesn't make sense that it lost more than double its budget. Plus, DreamWorks doesn't like to talk about their past, in fact, Katzenberg once tried to make us believe that Sinbad didn't exist in an interview and that Spirit was their last handdrawn movie. So there is no legitemate interview or article that goes into the details of how this movie did at the box office. Then how did they lose so much money? Well, AniMat explained this in his "top 10 animated bombs" video. Maybe it's because of a couple of movies. Back then, DreamWorks Pictures and DreamWorks Animation were pretty much the same company and they split up shortly after the release of Sinbad, maybe they lost so much money on both Sinbad and other films made by DreamWorks Pictures which also flopped, like The Cat In The Hat, and maybe that's also the reason they had to split up.

Eris was my first crush

I agree with some stuff, I disagree with other. First I was expecting the SOUNDTRACK to be mentioned, I think that it really really stands out even in the battle scenes, it’s really good. I agree with the fish scene it could have been maybe better, but I don’t agree with the siren battle review that you made. I think that you said that marina was proving that she was able to save everyone, but I think that this scene has a lot going on. First it shows you that man are not perfect, they make mistakes and sometimes woman need to step in. Second, I think that it shows that marina can “ take the ship” which is a reference to every woman can do everything that she proposes to do and she wants to do, every woman out there can do the same exact thing that a man can. In fact she does it so well that she saves everyone, gets the ship out, and when sinbad kisses her she punches him meaning that she is not only not into him, but she does not care about him at all in that moment. As a woman, I really like this scene, it’s such a powerful move. As for Eris I love her, the development and the sea creatures are amazing. I wished you could have talked more about sinbad and proteus relationship because that tensión it’s really interesting. Especially with Marina. Which is another thing that I enjoyed. She was asked to marry Proteus because it was her duty, but she realizes that duty and being yourself are two different things, therefor following the sea and with that falling in love with sinbad because she saw that goodness in him. This movie it’s really amazing and most of the things are meaningful. The characters are good and in some scenes the side characters are funny and interesting. Thank you for the review

Loved this movie as a kid and I just finished rewatching almost 20 years later and I still love it

It's a visually beautiful movie, just fantastic animation and beautiful scenes. Some of the cgi is dated, some of the monsters and the water and stuff is obviously 2003, but still. Aris is just trippy, weird smokey hair, her whole dessert is dreamlike, her star lair is cosmic and epic, it's just dope. The fight scenes are fast paced and sick, so we'll choreographed. The character development of sinbad is next level. He's so believable and personable and it's just tear-jerking. The romance is... Average. Not unbelievable, but not quite as sympathetic and cute as wall-e. The dialogue is quick and funny, with relatively few cheesy or cliché lines. I think that the reason this film flopped might have been the fact that plot was so linear. It was elegant and simple, proteus taking sinbads place was solid, nice, great writing, perfect setup. Sinbads desire to run, and marinas stowaway was just grade-A. But all 4 obstacles that our hero's face on the way to tarterus were just arbitrary and thrown in by Aris. With the exception of the sirens showing sinbads stubbornness and proving marinas worth, and the ice tower showing sinbads heroic heart, they didn't really do anything to further the narrative. The fish island and the end of the earth were just time filler action sequences. Pretty and fun, and they did show sinbads guts and brain, but still, they could have been left out of the film. They should have had challenges that more meaningfully tested our characters... Character. Honestly, the best parts of this movie are everything that happens in siriquece and everything that happens in tarturus. Sinbads test and his return to save proteus is just golden, moving, fantastic. The major chunk of the movie, the second act where the crew have to fight aris' arbitrary monsters, is just Dora the explorer-esque. Its crazy how fragile a movies success can be. It is unfortunate that this movie flopped, I feel especially bad for the animators that put so much time and effort into making a truly unique work of art.

Do you think Pirates of the Caribbean drew inspiration from this? There are a lot of similar plot points, particularly in the second and third movies. 1. Kraken-like monster 2. The pirates sail into frozen waters 3. They sail off the edge of the world 4. An obscure goddess from classical mythology is featured Admittedly, all of these plot points can be found elsewhere too, but I think it's very interesting to see them all in the same place in both Sinbad and POTC.

I remember when my sister and I saw this in the theater and there was only like 2 other people there

This was one of my favorite movies as a kid and I recently re-watched it because I saw it was on Hulu. I honestly love this movie, and was so happy that I was still able to enjoy it as an adult. I'm a sucker for enemies-to-lovers in terms of romance, so no complaints there! 😂 The soundtrack is awesome, too. Good review! 😊 I didn't know that Sinbad almost ended up as a Disney movie!

I loved this film as a kid. I still think it holds up. I was very surprised to learn it was a flop, and resulted in a loss of over 100 million dollars.

DreamWorks make good movies. I think I even like them more than I do Disney.

Where can I watch this movie? It's a childhood favourite and I can't find a good place to stream it anywhere

Maybe it’s the nostalgia talking but I think it’s awesome!

What?! Jeffery Katzenberg also pitched this to Disney but rejected it?! The reason I say “also” is because I heard Jeffery pitched The Prince of Egypt to Disney but was rejected for religious reasons. Now I can see Sinbad being more of a Disney movie than The Prince of Egypt cause I doubt Disney would wanna do an animated film about slavery

This movie totally deserves more appreciation and a LIVE ACTION

When I watch this movie as a kid. I love it. When I was a kid my dad use to read me bedtime and the book was one and a thousand Arabian night . Origin of simbad, Aladdin.

I disagree with a lot of your opinions but I am wearing some pretty heavy nostalgia goggles for this one

To this day, this is my favourite movie

Everything you said was bad about the movie actually made the movie enjoyable. We mere mortals who just want to enjoy a good flick don't care or think about 90% of the stuff you reviewed!!

Bro I been trying to find some review after watching this movie. Uhm wtf. why aren’t more people talking about this shit. This dude stole his bro’s fiancé after his bro put his life on the line for Sinbad. She straight left this dude and completely forgot about her soon to be husband. Well this dude was gay and didn’t give a fuck about his cheating girl and Sinbad was actually his ex boyfriend. Anyways watch it in 2020 highly recommend.

Why did all the marvelous animated movies from those years always were commercial failures.

It does not deserve to be rated that lowly, wtf Rotten Tomatoes?

The creature is more cthulhu inspired

I still watch this movie it was a master piece

This is one of my favourite movies.

Sinbad is one of my favorite underrated animated films

Eris was an awakening, that's for sure.

Eris is one of my all-time favorite villains tbh

I love this movie tho!!!

One of the things that made no sense to me is the fact that the town of Sirakuz or whatev seemed to do just fine before the book of peace was brought and after it was stolen everything went all hell and loose. So why bring the book in the first place lol

Well, one thing I find a BIT offensive about this movie is that, Sinbad is supposed to be an Arabian/Middle Eastern story, yet the movie made this movie all about Greek Mythology rather than Arabian. The only Arabic thing in the movie is the Roc! This is cultural white washing!

Producers really said fcuk it, Linux is open source let’s just use that!

Lol the trope of "woman leaves absolutely perfect man to shack up with a mediocre asswipe" is strong in this one. Women that want a Sinbad instead of a Proteus are the ones that'll be divorced in five years chain smoking in a trailer with 5 shitty kids who call them by their first name instead of "mom".

I always loved that movie as a kid. I still do :D

Most of the Disney cartoon movies are good. I love this story of Sinbad.

This movie i underrated never found myself board of the movie and actually succeeded in making a strong female character which alot of movies fail by falling into the trap of just giving a woman character men qualities

IM NOT SURE WHY THIS HAS SO FEW SUBS, ITS SO GOOD

I think the sirens I mean the the woman fish are actually in the actual sink bads movie old movie and the book

So essentially Maria was the one who saved the world and technically return the book of Peace if she hadn't bride it Sinbad..... No wonder I like Proteus and Maria so much over fucking SCUMBAG i mean sinbad

i liked Eris

8:32 That's how it looks like when a player has an ingame item and can fit everything in their pocket

It's called the Cetus not the kraken

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Amazing movie

I loved this movie but I agree that being 10 u would like nemo more but if u were 14-16 year's old this would be my all time favourite I can say without a doubt that this is among my favourite movies.

2:58 hulk punch.

They did go through a whirlpool correct?

I bet they have made a lot money off of sales down the road I wonder how much it has made since then. They also shouldn't have wasted dollars pushing out a terrible game for no profit. Stupid marketing and management.

Go spike!!!🤣

I LOVE THIS MOVIE. ERIS TURNED ME GAY. xD

I love this show

Good review

Worst Dreamworks film imo. No wonder it flopped so hard. Awful blend of cgi and 2d, unconvincing romance with no chemistry, selfish douchebag of a protagonist, lame ending, etc. Eris was the only good thing in it imo.

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Movie sucked shit except for Eris

in the the begining you ca