Product: The Odyssey [VHS] (1997)
Rating: 5.0
Great Movie!!
This movie, The Odyssey, was a wonderful movie. The main character was Odysseus. He was played by Armand Assante. His wife was Penelope, played as Greta Scacchi. It started out in 1300 B.C. The movie started out with his son, Telemachus, played as Alan Stenson. Then, Odysseus was sent out to fight in the Trojan War. The Greeks won. Before he left he told Penelope that she would have to promise him that if his son had grown a beard before he returned, then she must marry someone else. After ten years at the Trojan War, Odysseus and his men were headed back home to Ithica. Many different things happened to them on the way home. First of all, the God of the Wind, Aeolis, gives Odysseus bags of wind. A curious guy on the boat named Anticlus, played as William Houston, let out all the bad winds. The boat switched and headed another way. Hermes, the messenger god, told Odysseus and his men that the witch needed them. Hermes gave Odysseus leaves to eat to keep the curse away. Odysseus climbed the mountains to the castle of Circe. She turned Odysseus men to animals. She(Circe) fell in love with Odysseus. She made him sleep with her, and it ends up he stays there for five years. After that, they got into their boat, and rode it into the Underworld. He sees his mother in the Underworld. In the Underworld, he went to see the blind phrophet. The phrophet tells Odysseus that he will fo fight two bad creatures, the Silla and the Curiptus. They meet up with Silla(mythological creature). It had several heads. It looked like a giant worm with heads and teeth. The Curiptus had a big mouth. The Curiptus shut its mouth and spewed water on everyone. Odysseus fell into the water. Back home, Penelope, was making a death shawl just in case Odysseus didn't come back. Her idea was to thread all day, and take it back out at night time. Then, it would be longer before he would have to choose another man to marry. Then, Odysseus ended up at some sort of place in the middle of the ocean. The lady, Calypso, played as Vanessa Williams. She kept him there for two more years, but then she was sad, because she had to let him go. He headed back home to Ithica. On the way, Odysseus met up with Poseidon, God of Sea. He(Poseidon) had been trying to teach Odysseus a lesson. Poseidon told him that if it wasn't for gods or goddesses, then humans wouldn't be here. Back home, Penelope and Odysseus mother were sqeezing olives to make olive oil. Finally,Odysseus makes it back home to Ithica. A lady there turns him to look like an older guy. Only his son, Tiresias, could recognize him. The men waiting for Penelope's hand in marriage were getting ready to find out who her next husband was. Odysseus sat back watching. The men had to shoot an arrow through twelve hoops. No one could do it except Odsseus. Then, all of a sudden Odysseus stepped u and shot the arrow through all twelve of the hoops. He turned back into his old self again. He killed all of those men. Odysseus and his family lived happily ever after. In this movie, my favorite character was Calypso played as Vanessa Williams. She played it really good. I felt sorry for her, because she had to let Odysseus go back home to Ithica.