However, there is a nice little message about friendship and duty here, which, teamed with ocean adventure, make this movie a sea-worthy vessel for the easy sailing of summer entertainment. Sinbad is loosely inspired by the legend of Sinbad the Sailor, an Arabic mythological figure that first appeared in later editions of One Thousand and One Nights. The fast pace, lovely animation, and zingy dialogue will not distract you for long from noticing that there is little new or noteworthy in these 84 minutes of dazzle. You might feel like you have been here before and in many ways you have. Yes kids, surprise surprise, Sinbad is in fact not an original Dreamworks animation product. The characters themselves are cut from standard issue Disney cloth, and no animated movie these days would be complete without an animal side-kick, here it's slobbering bulldog Spike. Players join Sinbad on an epic adventure where he must battle hordes of supernatural enemies and go head-to-head with awesome magical monsters in the quest to. I must have been seven the first time I saw a Sinbad movie. Dreamworks combined three-dimensional computer generated images for the background with two-dimensional characters crossing swords and swinging from ropes in the foreground, to stunning effect. But with a bag of popcorn and an open mind, this flick will provide a fine getaway on the open seas. It may actually exceed the low expectations you might have for the hundredth remake of the Sinbad legend. This is a swashbuckling romp of a movie, with a couple of clever plot tweaks and some jaw-dropping animation.
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