The most recent animated movies have one thing in common: A-list actors lending their voice talents to get butts in theater seats. And while that wasn’t always the case, the creators of Sinbad: Legend ...

Remember Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron? Or perhaps you were trying to forget about it. (If that's the case, then I apologize for bringing it up.) Sure it looked good, but the story was left ...

ERIS is a mischievous goddess of chaos with too much time on her hands. Sinbad is a cocky pirate who plunders ships and cares for no one but himself. In Dreamworks' workmanlike, animated "Sinbad: ...

The Disney movies that revived the animated feature — “The Little Mermaid,” “Beauty and the Beast,” “Aladdin,” “The Lion King” — wowed us in ways that live-action films couldn’t. They introduced us to ...

Charmless cartoon adaptation. Running time: 86 minutes. Rated PG. At the Chelsea, the Union Square, the Battery Park, others. IT’S hard to believe that DreamWorks, the same studio that brought us ...

A far less inspired effort than "Finding Nemo" (G), "Sinbad Legend of the Seven Seas" will divert many kids 8 and older, but not in a way that delights all ages. Parents may find this animated ...

Directed by Patrick Gilmore and Tim Johnson. With the voices of Brad Pitt, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Joseph Fiennes, Michelle Pfeiffer and Dennis Haysbert. Running time 85 minutes. Classified PG (for ...

Sinbad's numerous ocean scenes created a daunting technological task. If animators had created the film's oceans segment by segment (as in the past), it could have added years to the movie's ...

Practically the first thing Joseph Fiennes does in our phone chat is confess to a fib. “I’ve just realized that I told a lie,” are his exact words, spoken in an Irish-by-way-of-English accent so warm ...

Before there was a Chris Rock, a Chris Tucker or a Martin Lawrence, there was Sinbad. The standup comedian who enjoyed success in the late 1980s and early '90s worked his way from the laugh circuit to ...

A passably entertaining animated entry from DreamWorks that's closer to "The Road to El Dorado" than to "Shrek," "Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas" tries too strenuously to contemporize ancient ...

To paraphrase Robert Frost, I’d as soon play tennis with the net down as listen to Brad Pitt ”star” as the animated title-hero of Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas. There’s something structurally amiss ...