Product: The Odyssey [VHS] (1997)
Rating: 3.0
WOW, What A Movie
GR8SoccerPlayer 1- 2-01We just finished watching the Odyssey in Social Studies class. It was a fairly good movie . It all started when Odysseus ( Armand Assante ) had to leave his newly born son to go fight in the Trojan War. He won the war by making a gaint wodden horse. The trojans bring it inside the city and when they fall asleep his men attack and win the war. He them goes and brags to the gods about how the won the war with out there help. Poseidon ( Miles Anderson ) say that for this he will not let odysseus get home until he is very old. Odysseus and his men set off and they land on the island of the Cyclops and end up killing him and leaving. Next they meet the wind god and he captures all the bad winds so Odysseus can get home faster. Then one of Odysseus men opens the bag and all of his men a blown to Circe she turns all of his men into animals he is stuck there for two years. Next they meet many mythlogical creatures and all of Odysseus men are killed. The odysseus getsw washed up on Calyspos island and he is stuck there for five years. He builds an ship but only get destroyed again. The Phenions end up helping him get the rest of the way home. Then Athene turns him into an old man so the people who invaded his house will not know its him. Penelope promised get married if he did not return. So she tell the invaders that if any one of them can shoot an arrow throw twelve ax handles then she would marry that person. Odysseus ends up shoting the arrow through the ax handle and turns young again. He and his son kill all of the invaders and then the goes to see Penelope. There is a lot going on in this movie so you might want to watch it twice.