Once upon a time, many years ago, Disney pumped out generic forgettable animated movies with abandon, but now they seem to have farmed that job out to Dreamworks. While Dreamworks has managed to put out some good cartoons, like Prince of Egypt, one can always judge a Dreamworks cartoon by asking, is this a good version of the Disney formula or a bad version?
If anything shows why Dreamworks should sit down and come up with some fresh ideas it's Sinbad, a paint-by-the-numbers movie that is never especially bad but fails, with the exception of the Sirens scene, to exhibit any life at all. It feels as though no one was even trying to make a good movie, that they were just all trying their darndest to make a tolerable but forgettable, formulaic cartoon for people with low standards. It's perfectly watchable, well-animated, decently acted and utterly predictable. And that appears to be all it was striving for.
If anything shows why Dreamworks should sit down and come up with some fresh ideas it's Sinbad, a paint-by-the-numbers movie that is never especially bad but fails, with the exception of the Sirens scene, to exhibit any life at all. It feels as though no one was even trying to make a good movie, that they were just all trying their darndest to make a tolerable but forgettable, formulaic cartoon for people with low standards. It's perfectly watchable, well-animated, decently acted and utterly predictable. And that appears to be all it was striving for.