They screwed up with his facial design. He always has that cheeky look, even when he's meant to be smiling sincerely. Couldn't connect with him as a result.
>go to a far away location of which no one has ever returned to collect a stolen object and bring it back to where you started the journey in order to save someone else's life. You have a few days only.
This story was done better on Spongebob film
Katzenberg stated that he really suffered with this film. He knew that CG comedies were the future of the studio after Shrek, which is why he greenlighted Shark Tale, Madagascar and Over the Hedge very shortly after Shrek (plus also greenlighted a Shrek sequel by the same crew as the first one), but he couldn't cancel this 2D Sinbad film because it was too far in development. No choice except to finish it and hope it turned out a success. When it premiered, it did slightly better than El Dorado internationally, yet was a huge failure domestically (only 26 million). Americans didn't care at all that Brad Pitt voiced the mc.
The execs changed this movie from an adult action movie to a kids comedy halfway through production. Characters literally change personalities from scene to scene. It's also written to have the Casablanca bummer ending where the two don't get to be together but they forced a happy kiddie ending which hilariously makes the two leads dirtbags for cucking their friend.
>masterpiece
It's cool visually but it's still bland
Eris is a highlight of the movie because of her charisma but it's not enough
This isn't a movie you watch from start to end, it's a movie where you just watch clips of what you like for the presentation alone because you don't care for the surrounding context
Back then not every story needed to be so convoluted or have grey antagonists. Eris is just a chaos goddess. Sinbad just has to go get the book. It's simple and you can call the premise bland by nowadays standards but the execution is pretty much as good as it's going to get, and making the story more complex wouldn't really add to the experience.
Dreamworks sure liked this type of generic end credits in their early films. Shark Tale and Over the Hedge were the first ones to do something different than a generic black screen, while afterwards Bee Movie and KFP were the first ones to do something completely stylized.
>Masterpiece
Might be a bit of a generous statement. The animation was pretty badass and the villain was wild hot but otherwise the movie is wholly forgettable. Which hey, I'll give them credit, a lot of movies can't even manage that.
I thought the icebird fight was cool. And the ending where Sinbad retroactively makes his lie into the truth was kino. Also the soundtrack when Eris is stealing the book is forever stuck in my mind.
>it's
They screwed up with his facial design. He always has that cheeky look, even when he's meant to be smiling sincerely. Couldn't connect with him as a result.
It's the damn Dreamworks eyebrows. They can't help themselves. It would be fine if he didn't have one eyebrow raised.
Yeah, but even when smiling without a raised eyebrow, he doesn't look great.
>go to a far away location of which no one has ever returned to collect a stolen object and bring it back to where you started the journey in order to save someone else's life. You have a few days only.
This story was done better on Spongebob film
Funny how it didn't have one song in it, given the previous films (Prince of Egypt, El Dorado, Joseph, Spirit) are all musicals.
Katzenberg stated that he really suffered with this film. He knew that CG comedies were the future of the studio after Shrek, which is why he greenlighted Shark Tale, Madagascar and Over the Hedge very shortly after Shrek (plus also greenlighted a Shrek sequel by the same crew as the first one), but he couldn't cancel this 2D Sinbad film because it was too far in development. No choice except to finish it and hope it turned out a success. When it premiered, it did slightly better than El Dorado internationally, yet was a huge failure domestically (only 26 million). Americans didn't care at all that Brad Pitt voiced the mc.
The execs changed this movie from an adult action movie to a kids comedy halfway through production. Characters literally change personalities from scene to scene. It's also written to have the Casablanca bummer ending where the two don't get to be together but they forced a happy kiddie ending which hilariously makes the two leads dirtbags for cucking their friend.
>Cool World
>Sinbad, Legend of the Seven Seas
>Megamind
>Happy Feet Two
Every animation film to have Brad Pitt
To think CW was only the 7th film to have Pitt credited.
>masterpiece
It's cool visually but it's still bland
Eris is a highlight of the movie because of her charisma but it's not enough
This isn't a movie you watch from start to end, it's a movie where you just watch clips of what you like for the presentation alone because you don't care for the surrounding context
Back then not every story needed to be so convoluted or have grey antagonists. Eris is just a chaos goddess. Sinbad just has to go get the book. It's simple and you can call the premise bland by nowadays standards but the execution is pretty much as good as it's going to get, and making the story more complex wouldn't really add to the experience.
I don't mean complex, I mean charismatic
Would have made for a kino animated series
Dreamworks sure liked this type of generic end credits in their early films. Shark Tale and Over the Hedge were the first ones to do something different than a generic black screen, while afterwards Bee Movie and KFP were the first ones to do something completely stylized.
Most underrated DW credits is the Monsters vs Aliens one. Love what they did here.
There does need to be a lot more movies with sextagonists.
Main girl was hot too
I only remember Eris's name tho
I watched this for the first time a few months ago while really drunk and she is the only thing I remember about it
Hnnnnnghh
I never forgot her.
>Masterpiece
Might be a bit of a generous statement. The animation was pretty badass and the villain was wild hot but otherwise the movie is wholly forgettable. Which hey, I'll give them credit, a lot of movies can't even manage that.
I thought the icebird fight was cool. And the ending where Sinbad retroactively makes his lie into the truth was kino. Also the soundtrack when Eris is stealing the book is forever stuck in my mind.
This. Sinbad was very atmospheric. I miss this era of DreamWorks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VIXnakRNBY
I miss this era of animated adventure epics in general.
They just don't make them like they used to. I know soul is memed to hell, but the (relatively) old stuff really did have more sovl.
I remember the joke that they lived in a flat earth.
I mostly remember the two sailors who were constantly betting in the background over everything.