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Features: Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 2.35:1, Dolby Digital (5.1), English, Subtitled, French, Spanish
The original caped crusader is back! Antonio Banderas and Academy Award-winner Catherine Zeta-Jones (2002, Best Supporting Actress, Chicago) return for more swashbuckling action, adventure and excitement in the explosive cinematic thrill-ride, The Legend of Zorro!Having spent the last ten years fighting injustice and cruelty, Alejandro de la Vega (Banderas) is now facing his greatest challenge: his loving wife Elena (Zeta-Jones) has thrown him out of the house! Elena has filed for divorce and found comfort in the arms of Count Armand (Rufus Sewell), a dashing French aristocrat. But Alejandro knows something she doesn't: Armand is the evil mastermind behind a terrorist plot to destroy the United States. And so, with his marriage and country's future at stake, it's up to Zorro to try and save two unions before it's too late.
"Banderas uses all his old wiles in this well-oiled, businesslike, quite clangingly violent sequel..." Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly
"Hooray for the return of Zorro!" Shawn Edwards, FOX-TV
Editor's Note
Catherine Zeta Jones captivated audiences and shot to stardom via her role as Elena in the 1998 take on the Zorro legend, MASK OF ZORRO. This sequel, set in 1850, finds her married to Alejandro, aka Zorro (Antonio Banderas, also returning to reprise his character from MASK OF ZORRO), and demanding he stop all the derring-do and spend time with their smart-as-a-whip 10-year-old son, Joaquin (Adrian Alonso). The boy has some serious acrobatic skills, but is unaware of his father's secret identity. He can only look askance as his parents separate and Dad starts spending too much time with his hard-drinking horse, while Mom lets herself be wooed by the odious Count Armand (Rufus Sewell). It's up to little Zorro Joaquin to get to the bottom of things and get his folk-hero parents back into action. Jones is a stunning sight in her elaborate lace-and-linen ensembles, and there's some complex DA VINCI CODE-style secret society skullduggery, but otherwise this sequel has more in common with classic old Walt Disney comedies like THE APPLE DUMPLING GANG or Robert Rodiguez's SPY KIDS than with the 1998 movie. The swordfighting and death-defying action sequences are all totally bloodless, and director Martin Campbell--who also helmed the '98 film--keeps the dialogue very contemporary and child-friendly throughout.
| Features | Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Selection | | Subtitles: English, French, Spanish | | This Is A Blu-Ray DVD Made For Blue-Laser Format Players Which Produce Higher Quality Picture & Sound |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Sony Pictures |
| Release Date: 12/11/2007 |
| Running Time: 130 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2005 | | Catalog ID: 22734 | | UPC: 00043396227347 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Widescreen 2.35:1 |
| Cast & Crew | Antonio Banderas | | Catherine Zeta-Jones | | Pedro Armendariz, Jr. | | Rufus Sewell | | Alex Kurtzman - Screenplay | | Cecilia Montiel - Production Designer | | James Horner - Original Music By | | Johnston McCulley - Based On Character Created By | | Martin Campbell - Director | | Phil Meheux - Cinematographer | | Philip Ivey - Art Director | | Roberto Orci - Screenplay | | Roger Birnbaum - Producer | | Steven Spielberg - Executive Producer | | Stuart Baird - Editor | | Tomas Owen - Art Director |
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| | Professional Reviews | Entertainment Weekly
"[E]very shot of Zeta-Jones, with rosy lips, glistening black hair, and at-home gowns of sumptuous design, is a lit and composed thing of beauty." -- Grade: B- 11/04/2005 p.50-51New York Times
"Mr. Banderas and Ms. Zeta-Jones enjoy combustible chemistry..." 10/28/2005 p.E13 Salon.com 9 of 10
Martin Campbell's "Legend of Zorro"...is everything you never knew you wanted in a swashbuckler: A comedy of remarriage, a rousing exploration of the meaning of good citizenship, a sly primer on how not to be a wimpy, self-involved parent -- all that and killer backflips too. The picture is almost shamefully entertaining, bold and self-effacing at once: Its intelligence reveals itself as a devilish gleam, not a pompous layer of shellac. Why can't more Hollywood movies be like this one?...Even within its supremely entertaining lightness, "The Legend of Zorro" is seriously liberal-minded: It urges us to believe in the ideals of government but reminds us that it's a bad idea to cede complete, unquestioning trust in the people in charge. And in between all of that, "The Legend of Zorro" features some of the most blissful on-screen stunts since, well, "The Mask of Zorro"...With "The Legend of Zorro," Campbell pulls off the impossible. He gives us a hero who, by merely tending to his civic responsibilities, makes us forget we have jobs to go to, or homework to do. Zorro, as one character puts it, intending it as a slight, is "a peasant masquerading as a folk hero." Hell, yeah. At the very least, he's given us back our Saturday afternoon. - Stephanie Zacharek
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