Still got time, so definitely catch “Creator”, a great POT flick.
I caught it like 0300 on a Saturnday night / Sunday morning, caught like the first few minutes of it, and stayed up ’til dawn to watch the rest of it. It’s funny, sad, feelgood, dramatic, everything good wrapped into one movie burrito.
This Dreamworks movie doesn’t get talked about much and it’s easy to see why after watching it and the making-of featurette. This movie seems like it wanted a PG-13 or R rating; I think the creators forgot they were making a kids movie at times. Even in the featurette you can hear them talking about characters being sensual and sexy.
Here are a few observations:
Enough innuendos made it into the movie to piss off parents, but the dialogue is still very much kids-movie level
The CGI and 2D animation are blended somewhat less effectively than Treasure Planet, but the movie still manages to look really good at times due to the imagination behind the world design.
This movie has the most MacGuffiny MacGuffin that ever was or will be.
Brad Pit, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Michelle Pfeiffer all star in this movie.
Bloodless PG action scenes are surprisingly well choreographed
I think the concept of a swashbuckler film about Sinbad was massively held back due to being made for kids. This could have been amazing. Unfortunately, it’s just a mediocre movie with hints of greatness and is probably best to watch buzzed on alcohol.
I hope someone else takes a stab at a Sinbad swashbuckler whether it is animated or live-action. We don’t get enough swashbucklers these days.
Yea, I loved all those Harryhausen movies. I actually ran into him unexpectedly a few years before he passed away when I was wandering around one of the back hallways of Comic-Con in the early days. One of my more unforgettable moments