Product: The Odyssey [VHS] (1997)
Rating: 1.0
Dear Lord, Homer must be turning in his grave...
This movie was so bad that it was good. Almost everything seemed unrealistic, down to the sock puppet "Scylla" and the blatantly fake backgrounds. The music was redundant and annoying and the actors couldn't act worth [anything]. It also completely messed up the actual poem, which is scary because more people will see this movie than will read the book. Here are some things to look for the next time you see this movie:1. Scylla looks like a sock puppet Venus fly trap2. Telemachos sounds like a whiny English schoolboy3. They skipped the entire cow seen4. All of the shades in Hades are transparent except for Odysseus' mother and Teiresias.5. Odysseus's beard keeps changing color6. The Cyclops' eye blinks so much that it looked like it was talking.7. All of the actors have different accents8. Athena had blue eyes and Menelaus had black hair.9. Aiolos, the wind god, appears as a face in a waterfall and sounds like Face from Nick Jr.10. Penelope looks like she is...ahem...pleasuring herself on the shores of Ithaca in the middle of the night11. The entire movie felt like an expedient of random scenes put together with glue with no clear transitions between any of the scenes.Okay I am done now...