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`Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas'.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

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| July 01, 2003 | Butler, Robert W. | COPYRIGHT 2003 Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Robert W. Butler

It looks pretty good, features some nice voice work, has a couple of killer action sequences and generates a few solid laughs.

But mostly DreamWorks' new animated "Sinbad" feels under-inspired.

Jettisoning most of the Middle Eastern trappings of its Arabian Nights origins, this animated feature is essentially generic. It could have been created by a computer programmed to pluck attractive elements from far more original films and cobble them together in a semblance of a script.

See if this sounds at all familiar: Self-centered, looking-out-for-No. 1 pirate/smuggler gets caught up in epic quest, bickers with ...

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