20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1997/II) (TV)

User Rating:

5.5/10   

Director:

Rod Hardy

Writers (WGA):

Jules Verne (novel)
Brian Nelson (teleplay)

Release Date:

11 May 1997 (USA)

Genre:

Adventure | Romance | Sci-Fi

Plot:

The year is 1886, when New England's fishing harbours are the scene for a "creature of unknown origin" destroying ships at sea...

Plot Keywords:

Sea | Monster | Jules Verne | Captain Nemo | Two Part TV Movie

Cast

Michael Caine	...	Captain Nemo
Patrick Dempsey	...	Pierre Arronax
Mia Sara	...	Mara
Bryan Brown	...	Ned Land
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje	...	Cabe Attucks (as Adewale Akinnouye-Agbaje)
John Bach	...	Thierry Arronax
Nicholas Hammond	...	Saxon
Peter McCauley	...	Admiral McCutcheon
Kerry Armstrong	...	Lydia Rawlings
Cecily Chun	...	Imei (as Cecily Anna)
Ken Senga	...	Shimoda
Gerry Day	...	Nitongu
Steven Grives	...	Garfield (as Steven Grieves)
Boe Kaan	...	Ivanda
Damian Monk	...	Dennison

Runtime:

Brazil:158 min | 60 min (3 episodes)

Country:

USA | Australia

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Filming Locations:

Australia

Company:

Frederick S. Pierce Company

Goofs:

Anachronisms: As Thierry Arronax makes his speech from the ship's gangway, a woman waives a U.S. flag with the stars in the pattern that became official in 1890 or 1896. The film is set in 1886.

Quotes:

Captain Nemo: The sea covers seven tenths of the Earth. Its breadth is pure, and wholesome. It is an immense world, pulsating with every form of life. Here there are no despots. On the surface, men still exercise their endless laws, fight and indulge in all their bloody earthly horrors, but below the surface their power ceases... their dominion vanishes. To live, gentlemen, in the embrace of the sea... only here is there independence... here, I recognize no master... here, I am free.

Movie Connections:

Featured in Journey to the Center of the Earth (1999) (TV)

RUN, don't walk away from this film!

We gave this thing forty minutes to spark our interest. The acting is wooden,and the computerized special effects are laughable, obvious, and have that "slapped on" feeling and look. We couldn't even stand to finish it skipping whole chapters. This can't possibly be all that faithful a telling of this story.

McDreamy is McCrappy, Bryan Brown is bad, and Michael Caine HAS to be embarrassed. The ship isn't even all that imaginative, the whales look fake, and by the time the first ship is attacked, we were rooting for a sinking.

Avoid this movie like the flotsam it is.