Product: The Odyssey [VHS] (1997)
Rating: 4.0
Good visual
I teach Engish to freshmen and we read The Odyssey as part of our curriculum. This movie version is well done and I enjoy showing it to the students. (They enjoy it, which adds to my own.) It stays pretty true to the version we read and the monsters, gods, etc., are portrayed well. The only hesitancy I have with it at all regards Circe and Calypso. There are some brief sexual innuendos/situations with these two women, which there are more of in the story, but generally not in the story provided in freshmen anthologies. However, at the freshmen level, it's completely within boundaries to show it. Watching the movie adds a dimension to the written word, and provides opportunities for comparing and contrasting as well. I will continue to show it.