Product: The Odyssey [VHS] (1997)
Rating: 5.0
A Review on The Odyssey
I have watched the Odyssey and thought it was a great movie. I will tell you a little about it. First Lord Odysseus goes out and fights the Trojan War and he won after won 10 years. He won because he built the Trojan horse to take in the kingdom and then they would get out of it and kill everyone. After that they get on their boat and sail for days. Now remember it is foggy and they lossdirections. They see land and go to it. Well, they find out that it is Cyclops Island. They get off that Island and then go to the God Wind's Island (Michael J. Pollard playing as Aeolus). He ( the God of Wind) gave Odysseus a bag of wind to help sail home. They get near their island but, someone opends the bag and a storm appears and again they get blown off coruse. Now, their on the Goddess Island, The Witch (Calypso). They don't know their on her Island. Some people went looking for food and the witch turned them into animals. Only one animal comes back. Now Odysseus climbs up the mountain but before he gets to the top of the mountain the messanger God (Hermes) tells him to eat the grass that he is getting ready to give him, so when he drinks the witches honey he won't turn into an animal. After that the witch will take him to bed.When he wants to leave the witch tells him that it felt like 5 days to you but its really been 5 years. So now he has been away from his Island 15 years.At the end he does get home and kills the men that were going to see which one was going to marry his wife. Everything they used back then they used in the movie. It seemed like I was there in Greece when the movie was playing. The food and how they got olive oil was just like they did it a long time ago. The best part I thought was how the gods look so real. The gods were sometimes mean or nice depending on who you are or if you did something bad. You counldn't grow much crops back then.