Sinbad La Légende du Royaume Interdit

Watching this was rather disconcerting. Some parts of it (like the water) are animated beautifully. Combined with some photographic backgrounds and the results are impressive.

However all the characters look like they're animated with a Nintendo 64 or a home PC with a mediocre graphics card. It really breaks the suspension of disbelief. Think Tombraider quality, not Quake III.

This movie is not only boring, it is also really badly done. The graphics are so bad, they are not even second rate - they are dreadful. The characters do not show any facial expresssions, the voice acting is empty and without any soul, and the plot absolutely lacks .... well... anything and everything. My 5 year old likes it - but thinks it's a bit boring. I agree with him.

This thing is really awfull. There´s no charachter with weight, they´re all floating around in the BG´s. The Motion Capture is a fine toy, but this movie demostrates that you really need people who knows animation to do an animated film. THE MACHINE CAN´T DO ANYTHING WELL BY ITSELF. If you see it as a bizarre film, you´ll have fun finding mistakes of continuity... IN A 3D MOVIE!!! It´s funny to watch the princess dress move around like a thing with diferent phisics. You need animators and 3D animators, not data-entries whom know 3D programs. Note the junctions, like the elbows, how they lost volume and get deformed. The person who made the charachter design (a very good one) sufered for sure when he/she watched them move, ´cos you can´t say they come to life.

Great effort to create an animated movie in three D. The plot in this case was secondary to the effects of making animated characters jump out at you on the screen. It was easy to follow with the fantasy of Sinbad and the princess reaching the depths of the ocean to find the answer and antidote for breaking the spell cast by the nefarious bad guy. The art of animation has been pushed further along due to this effort and a new bench mark set. Only those who risk going too far will ever know how far they can go. Worth watching young or old. My grandchildren loved it.

Although it doesn't reach the level of a great movie everything in it is well done. The script is good and the voices and reading of great quality. The human figures are well animated but, for my taste, too close to reality. That destroys a little the spirit of fantasy and creates a feeling of ambiguity. Nice backgrounds and fantastic architecture. Of interest to any age because of it's overall visual pleasantness and narrative quality.