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The Legend Of Zorro [2005]
starring: Antonio Banderas, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Rufus Sewell, Nick Chinlund, Lou Diamond Phillips
directed by: Martin Campbell

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Audience Rating: Parental Guidance
Binding: DVD
EAN: 5035822933033
Format: Anamorphic, PAL
Label: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Region Code: 2
Release Date: March 06, 2006
Running Time: 130 minutes
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 2005
Sales Rank: 12941

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Amazon.co.uk Review:
The Zorro brand of hot-blooded derring-do returns with The Legend of Zorro, starring Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones in the roles that brought them stardom with The Mask of Zorro.

Now married for ten years and parents to young rascal Joaquim (charming Adrian Alonso, perhaps being set up for a future Son of Zorro), dashing swordsman Alejandro (Banderas, a Spaniard playing a Mexican) and sultry spitfire Elena De La Vega (Zeta-Jones, a Welshwoman playing a Spaniard) abruptly divorce, sending Alejandro on a drunken binge--which only gets worse when he learns Elena is being wooed by the mysterious Armand (Rufus Sewell, a Brit playing a Frenchman). Little does Alejandro know that Elena has ulterior motives, and that a worldwide conspiracy and a secret weapon will soon threaten the integrity of the U.S.

The Legend of Zorro has way too much plot, leaving room for only two genuinely preposterous donnybrooks and a handful of lacklustre brawls. Banderas and Zeta-Jones flash a bit of their considerable charisma, but by and large they (and the movie as a whole) are on autopilot. Not awful, but lacking any real spark.--Bret Fetzer

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- The magic is gone.
Well, there are some good things about this film, but much is to be desired. Catherine Zeta-Jones looks stunning, as usual. We really get to see the trials of a man who is everyone's hero. But the magic is certainly gone from this one. The movie focuses more on the private lives of Zorro and his wife; and even leans toward a soap opera. Zorro's wife is tired of him being Zorro. In fact, the whole movie just seems tired. Zorro's son does antics that out-Zorro Zorro himself. It was really silly. I didn't care at all for the bad guys-they weren't just corrupt, but downright evil (remember Disney's Commandante?-he was just overboard, not Darth Maul). Do all bad guys in today's movies need to be worse than the last? The bad guy who was doing the ... Read More:

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- Great family actioner.
Revisit the images of childhood, galloping masked hero dressed all in black on a black horse filmed against an evening sky, righting injustices against ordinary people, the larger than life villains, the over the top action.

The opening fight on the bridge sets the tone for the action sequences, unbelievable but great viewing. Zorro (Antonio Banderas) and Elena (Catherine Zeta Jones) reprise their roles, but the chemistry is different, after all they have now been married for a number of years so the allure and chemistry from the earlier film are missing. However Catherine Zeta Jones looks stunning, she improves with age.

This is great family viewing in the Indiana Jones tradition, not so much of that around in these ... Read More:

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- Not as good as The Mask of Zoro
I am a big fan of Antonio Banderas and Katherine Zeta Jones, and loved the Mask of Zoro, so i was really looking forward to this follow up, but i was a little disappointed. There were quite a few unbelievable stunts typical of Mission Impossible and the story was weak. Zoro's horse was funny as he was in the first film. Katherine looked older whereas Antonio looked exactly the same! There was a lot of sexual tension in the first film that was totally lacking in this one. I won't be watching this film over an over as i did the original.

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- Exceeded my expectations by leaps and bounds
The Legend of Zorro is actually a great movie, one which I never expected to be so thoroughly entertaining. I would have been content just looking at Catherine Zeta-Jones for a couple of hours, but this is a swashbuckling good time from beginning to end. Sure, it stretches credulity at times and plays fast and loose with American history, but it succeeds admirably in its purpose to capture the viewer's imagination and show him/her one wild, action-packed adventure. I must admit I haven't seen The Mask of Zorro, nor have I seen more than bits and pieces of old Zorro shows and movies over the years, so I can't put any of this in a proper Zorro context. All I can do is tell you how much I liked the movie - and why.

You can't complain ... Read More:

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- Why Antonio? Why?
I loved the first movie, it was fun, circus fun, with a good plot and great actors. I left that movie with the desire to put "z"'s on things and was hoping for something to make up for the Indiana Jones void in my life. The sequal to this movie makes any hope for a new brand of fun thrilling sequals to look foward too utterly dead and this is all thanks to hollywoods disturbing embracement of the current absolutly bland mondern movie formula.

The movie also has a grotesque since of american history to begin with, it forgets that America went to war with Mexico in the name of slavery, not freedom, as Mexico would not allow slaves in its country, thus we started to kill them, and remember texas. The only person in the world I could imagine ... Read More:

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