Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003) poster
2003 · animation · family · adventure

Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas

Directed by Tim Johnson, Patrick Gilmore1h 26m2003
ElsewhereIMDb6.763kRT44%Metacritic48TMDB7.02k
  • warm
  • kinetic
  • redemptive
Movie DNA

Warm, breathless, measured animation / family, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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The sailor of legend is framed by the goddess Eris for the theft of the Book of Peace, and must travel to her realm at the end of the world to retrieve it and save the life of his childhood friend Prince Proteus.

Our read · Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive animation · family · adventure entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want swashbuckling animated adventure with mythic seas and easy charm.

ends triumphantyou’ll be fine aftersteady all the waygrips by minute 10attention 2/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around

Skip it tonightSkip if you need Pixar-level writing or cannot tolerate dated CGI.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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