Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003) on Netflix
PG20031h 26mAdventureAnimationComedy
Sinbad and his crew try to steal the Book of Peace, guarded by his childhood friend Prince Proteus. The goddess Eris frames Sinbad for the theft, and Proteus becomes the hostage.
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Plot summary
Sinbad and his pirate crew sail to seize the Book of Peace as a final job before retiring to Fiji, and find it guarded by Prince Proteus of Syracuse, his childhood friend. The goddess of discord, Eris, has her own interest in the book. After a sea monster drags Sinbad under, she saves him and offers him anything he wants in exchange for it. He slips into Syracuse to take the book, then leaves without it, and the book vanishes. Sinbad is sentenced to death; Proteus becomes a hostage so Sinbad can sail to the realm of Eris at the end of the world and bring the book back. Marina, Proteus's betrothed, hides aboard to keep him to the task.
Cast
- Andrew Birchas Grum / Chum (voice)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Michelle Pfeiffer struggled so much to find the right tone for the goddess Eris that after a third script rewrite she told studio chief Jeffrey Katzenberg he could simply fire her from the role.
- Russell Crowe was originally cast to voice Sinbad but dropped out over scheduling, and was replaced by Brad Pitt, who wanted a film his own nieces and nephews could actually watch given the violence in his usual movies.
- The film's failure at the box office proved expensive for its studio: DreamWorks Animation took a loss of $125 million on Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas.
- The film was the first DreamWorks Animation production built entirely on Linux-based software, using more than 250 workstations for its animation and rendering pipeline.
- Critic Jack Shaheen argued the studio avoided making its hero Arab out of fear of political or financial backlash, saying the choice let harmful stereotypes about Arabs go unchallenged.
