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(1 - 28) of 28 OFCS Rating: 30% Rotten Page   1   2.5/5 "excessively lengthy, swashbuckling-by-numbers exercise in tedium that fills the cinema with entirely the wrong kind of zs."   Eye for Film   Anton Bitel B- "Whether the film is necessary is up for debate, but Zorro devotees and adventure-seeking youngsters should be pleased."   FromTheBalcony   Bill Clark C+ "In what should've been Antonio Banderas's finest hour as the Mexican superhero, he is instead swallowed up by a second film that doesn't know what to do with him."   FilmJerk.com   Brian Orndorf B+ "Despite its flaws, a swashbuckling, frenetic, fun family film."   EDGE Boston   David Foucher 2/4 "The Legend of Zorro kicks off with a ridiculously over-the-top action sequence that feels as though it'd be more at home in The Three Amigos..."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair B- "It is good fun, but not great fun, and it's much longer than it ought to be."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 3/4 "Arrives with its fair share of violence and probably more individual deaths by explosion than listed on Wile E. Coyote’s HMO chart."   eFilmCritic.com   Erik Childress C "Zorro doesn't get a chance to sword-swipe his initial into opponents' clothes very often this time around, but when he does, it should be an 'M' for 'Mediocre.'"   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 2/5 "Here we go again with the tedium of yet another superhero who is faced with the daunting challenge of being a better parent."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat 2/4 "The production is suffused by an almost desperate attempt to recapture the mood of its predecessor, but the tone is forced rather than natural, and the resultant production is bloated, contrived, and not very entertaining."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 6/10 "It tries just hard enough to get by when it should be working more ambitiously to earn that mark of the Z."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Jeffrey Chen 2.5/5 "It's one thing to watch the sexy banter of a courtship coalescing, and quite another to watch a marriage falling apart. Takes out some of the zing, don't you know."   Cinerina   Karina Montgomery 2.5/4 "The Legend of Zorro is a frustrating hodgepodge of a movie, as fascinating (often profoundly touching) in its parts as it is off-putting as a whole."   Slant Magazine   Keith Uhlich 2/5 "In the first film, the horse was stubborn. In this movie, he drinks, belches and smokes a pipe. Seriously, a burping horse! Ugh. It’s like a bad cartoon."   7M Pictures   Kevin Carr 2/5 "La Leyenda es tan sólo la sombra de lo que fue La Máscara..."   Cinenganos   Luis Martinez 2/4 "Though it reunites the stars and director of the rousingly old-fashioned swashbuckler The Mask of Zorro (1998), this unnecessary and overlong sequel fails to recapture its predecessor's zing."   TV Guide's Movie Guide   Maitland McDonagh 2/4 "The movie needed to be sexier and edgier than it is."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan B- "Great stunts, glamorous stars, and our affection for the characters make this sequel watchable, even with a disappointing script."   Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies   Nell Minow 3/5 "After a seven year wait and a successful foundation, the audience deserves a little more than this"   Filmcritic.com   Pete Croatto 2.5/5 "With silly comedy where the spiciness was before"   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline C- "Too flabby, too homogenized, and way too full of holes."   Flipside Movie Emporium   Rob Vaux D+ "Big stars, big budget, big stunts sabotaged by a scatterbrained plot."   Laramie Movie Scope   Robert Roten 3.5/5 "Nope, it's not as good as the first one. But considering how chintzy and auto-piloty most sequels are these days, I'll take what I can get."   DVDTalk.com   Scott Weinberg D+ "A 'funny family action film' in the Fantastic Four mold — that is, a movie whose key qualification as kid entertainment is that it isn't good enough for grown‑ups."   Decent Films Guide   Steven D. Greydanus 8/10 "Harken to the hacienda and hoist the tequila! It's a bold, fun-filled, swashbuckling action adventure for the whole family."   Modamag.com   Susan Granger 2.5/4 "Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones still sizzle as the crime-fighter and his equally fearless wife, but their playful banter takes a back seat to the convoluted narrative, an unwieldy amalgam of swordplay, tiresome family drama."   Reel.com   Timothy Knight 0.5/4 "I could feel my life siphoning out of me as this masterpiece entered its third hour."   Film Freak Central   Walter Chaw Read review   Salon.com   Stephanie Zacharek  (1 - 28) of 28 OFCS Rating: 30% Rotten Page   1