Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas


DreamWorks US (0600445045972)
Movie | Released: 2003 | Film release: 2003 | Format: CD
 

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# Track   Duration
1.Let The Games Begin3:04
2.The Book Of Peace1:41
3.The Sea Monster3:32
4.Sinbad Overboard3:27
5.Syracuse1:16
6.Proteus Proposes1:12
7.Eris Steals The Book1:53
8.Lighting Lanterns1:29
9.The Stowaway2:35
10.Setting Sail1:40
11.Sirens3:22
12.Chipped Paint2:52
13.The Giant Fish1:05
14.Surfing3:04
15.The Roc2:00
16.Heroics2:11
17.Rescue!2:18
18.Is It the Shore Or The Sea?3:28
19.Tartarus10:12
20.Marina's Love/Proteus' Execution2:02
21.Sinbad Returns and Eris Pays Up7:45
22.Into The Sunset2:22
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Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas - 08/10 - Review of Andreas Lindahl, submitted at
Harry Gregson-Williams is probably one of the most underrated composers working in Hollywood today. Mention his name and most people will probably think of action packed scores with the well-known Media Ventures sound (it's interesting to note that most of the Media Ventures composers claim that there is no such sound - some even hate when people mention it. Who can blame them? Can't be fun to have their music labelled like that). It couldn't be further from the thruth. Scores such as Antz and Chicken Run (co-composed with John Powell) and the soft and absolutely beautiful The Magic of Marciano, as well as the charming music for The Tigger Movie, are clearly products of a versatile composer with a distinct sound of his own. And the score for Dreamworks' animated film Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas just makes this more obvious.

One of the most entertaining scores so far this year, Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas is a swashbuckling adventure score with just the right amount of action, comedy and gentle underscore. And practically no annoying mickey-mousing at all. Woho! Performed by a large orchestra (for a change conducted by Gregson-Williams himself) and choir we are given a score that is guaranteed to entertain the listener. It's not really groundbreaking material Gregson-Williams has come up with here, but it's darn good. Especially for fans of the scores for Antz and Chicken Run. Sinbad features the cool, laidback music from the previous film and the upbeat, brassy elements from the latter.

Dominated by brass and plenty of appearances by choir, Sinbad features its fair share of swashbuckling themes. The main theme is appropriate for the genre and is a strong element throughout the entire score, but best heard, performed by full orchestra, in cues such as the opening "Let the Games Begin". There's also a lighthearted little reoccuring theme performed by bouncy woodwinds (especially basoon and flutes). Add to this some excellent female vocals in tracks like "Eris Steals the Book" and a couple of other themes and you've got the thematically rich score that Sinbad undoubtly is. As for memorable and stand out cues, "The Stowaway", owing a lot to the score for Antz, with its soft, groovy guitars, percussion and fiddle like strings, augmented by soft woodwinds. "Sirens" is one of the most entertaining and strange cues on the album, with its whimsical, almost a little Elfmanesque, female voices. Very seductive, over the top and fun. It's also one of the more original tracks on the soundtrack CD. "Lighting Lanterns" includes some excellent writing for choir, percussion and strings. Very mysterious stuff. "Is it the Shore or the Sea?", on the other hand, includes some beautiful writing for flute and soft strings. And when it comes to action, there's plenty. "The Sea Monster", with its racing strings and triumphant brass, is worth mentioning, as is the ten minutes long "Tartarus". Entertaining adventure music at its best.

Sinbad is a really excellent score and everything I hoped it would be, and as close to a five star rating as it's possible for a four star score to be. It's been a long time since I had so much fun listening to a film score. One of the best scores of 2003 so far.
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas - 06/10 - Review of Tom Daish, submitted at
I don't know if I'm just getting more fussy or other film music reviewers are getting less critical, but the lavish outpourings that have greeted Harry Gregson-Williams' latest opus for this (spectacular looking) animated take on the Sinbad legends seem just a touch ambitious. I'm sure there are plenty who think I'm just being a meany, but it's one of those scores that is almost all gloss and no substance; loud enough to be hard to ignore, but not memorable enough to stake an indelible claim to the aural consciousness. This is not to say that Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas is an unenjoyable adventure score, but for all its monumentally mounted heroics, and the occasional neat touch, it seems rather unremarkable when all the bombast and excitement is stripped away.
The score opens quite inauspiciously with some bouncing woodwinds for Let the Games Begin, but it's not long before Gregson-Williams unleashes the full power of the London musicians. The score's most enjoyable and memorable invention is a female close harmony group singing staccato 'ahh's' that gives the score a little exoticism that the purely orchestral tracks generally lack. Most of the time they sound acoustic, but on occasion lead to the conclusion that they have been sampled and overlaid in post production, but a nice idea all the same. Naturally enough, their most prominent appearance is during Sirens, when they are added to the crunching action music most effectively. Much of the music is big and booming, probably with a Mahlerian size orchestra and more often than not with the full chorus thrown in for good measure. Lighting Lanterns and Rescue! add in modern pulsing percussion, which is effectively propulsive, but feels a little incongruous, especially when some banging on 'authentic' acoustic percussion would have a similar driving feel and be more in keeping with the rest (especially since bongos or similar make a few appearances during the quieter moments).

Although a logical precedent for comparison could be Herrmann's classic scores for the Ray Harryhausen films, this is a different style of scoring, for a different era of movie making and a different type of fantasy. This Sinbad is more fantastical pirate adventure, than ancient myth and legend. However, even compared to recent swashbuckling efforts such as Debney's Cuthroat Island and James Newton Howard's uneven, but occasionally masterful Atlantis, it just doesn't have the clearly memorable episodes of those scores and is severely hampered by a surprisingly generic main theme. One need only compare his work with John Powell on Chicken Run and its almost annoyingly memorable collection of themes and Sinbad's tunes just don't make the grade. However, for all that, it is undeniably terrific fun at the time; this is an album to enjoy, with enough enthusiasm and propulsion throughout that I can't not recommend it. Ideal popcorn movie music - it's not good for you, but you still like it.
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas - 07/10 - Review of Thomas Jenkins, submitted at
A bit repetitive with its main theme, but it's a really strong theme, and the score overall is quite entertaining.
The music of this soundtrack was used in:

Racing Stripes (Trailer)
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (Trailer)

This soundtrack trailer contains music of:

Save The Day, Brand X Music (Trailer)
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003), Harry Gregson-Williams (Movie)
Hook (1991), John Williams (Movie)
Antz (1998), Harry Gregson-Williams (Movie)


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