People Magazine
July 17, 2003

In this animated children's film, a character tells the movie's titular hero, "You're cute, but not that cute". The remark serves as a pithy assessment of Sinbad: The Legend of the Seven Seas as well. Although kids will contentedly sit through it, rooting for Sinbad and laughing at the antics of Spike, his pet dog, this cartoon lacks the verbal snap and visual crackle that have made such recent animated wonders as Finding Nemo and Shrek pop.

Sinbad (Pitt) is a pirate who falls for his best friend's gutsy girl (Zeta Jones) while undertaking a perilous sea voyage to recover a magical book stolen by a wicked goddess (Pfeiffer). The animation, blending the hand drawn and digitally created, rarely knocks your turban off. The voice work by big names yields mixed results: Pfeiffer purrs deliciously as she plots destruction. Zeta Jones pumps sufficient spunk into her lines, but Pitt rarely rises above adequate.

Bottom Line: What becomes a Legend--not.