Product: The Odyssey [VHS] (1997)
Rating: 4.0
A worthy remake
Well firstly, ignore all the reviews of one star that are a few pages down, they all appear to be of arrogant students (I'm a student myself)!Anyway, after reading the poem by Homer, I found the film to be a pretty damn good translation. Sure, there are some bits missed out (like the Cannibals, drug addicts, Ajax and others in the underworld), but it does manage to squeeze in a helluva lot. The effects are pretty good considering this is a TV movie.And people who complain about the inclusion of the Trojan war? Well how else would you explain the reason for Odyssus sailing home. It did add a new ... scene ... where he curses the gods, which is innaccurate, as in the book he angers Posiedon by bliding Polyphemus, then taunting him. And I would have preffered a bit more focus on his meeting with the Phoenecians, as that is practically half the book! (so are Telemachus' wanderings)But overall, a fantastic translation. Shame it couldnt make the big screen, with a huge budget. It would have been a box office smash