Product Details

• Actors: Lorenzo Lamas, Sean Lawlor
• Directors: Gabriel Bologna
• Format: Widescreen
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: May 18, 2010
• Run Time: 85 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 1.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B003ABZHCC
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #161,524 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
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1.0 out of 5 stars Not the Nemo we know and love., July 16, 2010

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This review is from: 30,000 Leagues Under the Sea [Blu-ray] (Blu-ray)

It is difficult to even give the benefit of the doubt to a movie which aborts Verne's principal character of the original, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Capt. Nemo, making of him a mega-villain, seeking to destroy the landlubbers everywhere. Nemo was a vengeful figure, but his obsession of destruction was framed with conscience and directed at the facilitators and profiteers of war, specifically those who tortured and killed his family, as depicted in the outstanding Disney film. Nemo was, in his intent, a righteous character, and he certainly was not a madman, senselessly at war with the whole world.

Those who have no appreciation of complex characters, or care if there is any relevance to what the truth would be if Verne's Nemo had survived, according to this scheme, than you may find, just for the FX, that it merits spending two hours of the 700,000 you will hopefully have in your life. But if you are looking for a credible extension of the Verne character into a new, updated chapter, this is definitely not it and is a total waste of time.

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1.0 out of 5 stars A Finely Ground Pork Sausage Containing Pieces Of Lard, January 8, 2011

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Robert I. Hedges - See all my reviews
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"30,000 Leagues Under The Sea" is a film so mind-boggling that I had to ponder what to write for some time before sitting down at the computer. Then I noticed it was directed by Gabriel Bologna and I thought that was a logical place to start. After discovering that bologna sausage is finely ground or hashed, contains lard, and only vaguely resembles its Italian forebears I finally had an epiphany: this movie is analogous to a big fatty sausage with no nutritional advantages and lots of disadvantages. Like the sausage, this film is hashed relentlessly with the choppiest of storylines, only vaguely resembles Jules Verne's original work (apparently the lard made it gain 10,000 leagues in the process,) and offers absolutely no reason to want to see it (it certainly isn't nutrition for the brain.)

The film stars Lorenzo Lamas and Dublin's own Sean Lawlor as a truly deranged Captain Nemo; Lamas is hammier than usual while Lawlor is the whole pork roast (sausage making can be a messy business, you know.) The film opens with a giant squid sinking a US nuclear submarine, the USS "Scotia.") The navy will use naval officer Lieutenant Michael Aronnaux (Lorenzo Lamas) in a special clear bubble and a submersible to get the people out of the submarine. (I was never clear on the physics of this whole arrangement.) Of course his ex-wife is a more senior naval officer, Lieutenant Commander Lucille Conciel (Natalie Stone,) and she is in charge of the mission so the bickering starts immediately. There is an absolutely abominable backstory about these two and their bad blood, and you'll be grateful when the story gets back to the giant squids. The filmmakers apparently interviewed nobody who knew anything about ships or the military. The surface support ship is allegedly the USS "Abraham Lincoln," which is shown as a battleship. It's bad enough that the US hasn't had any battleships in decades, but a simple Internet search would have gleaned the fact that the real "Lincoln" is an aircraft carrier. This ship can also travel at 75 knots. I want to see a World War Two vintage battleship do 75 knots (actual top speed is around 33 knots.) Obviously that's too nitpicky for a film of this caliber, but it's no harder to do it correctly.

Lamas and crew take their submersible down to look at the sub, and at 20,000 feet below the surface they can look out the window and see the submarine sitting on the bottom. Of course in reality it's pitch black at that depth, and only a very few bathyscaphes and oddball submersibles can even think of going that deep. Before long the gigantic "Nautilus" appears under the command of Nemo, who is part marriage counselor, part raving lunatic. I prefer the lunatic part, and you will too when it's Lamas and Stone on the couch. Nemo takes them to Atlantis ("a place of untold riches and wisdom") and reveals he needs Lamas' air breathing device to revitalize the lost continent. Also part of the plot: Nemo controls the squids, and has obtained the nuclear missiles from the "Scotia" to launch against the world above the sea. Nemo is a very conniving man and quickly convinces a bombastic administrative staff officer, Blackwell (Damien Puckler,) to betray the US and the world. Nemo wants to launch the nuclear weapons to make earth uninhabitable so that Atlantis can be revived, and Blackwell complies promptly after being exposed to Nemo's pheromone mind control goggles. (I wish I were kidding.)

Lamas formulates a plan to stop Nemo's madness, realizes he still loves Stone, fights off squids, goes to the "Scotia" and, finding its crew alive, rescues them all. Question: if the crew of the "Scotia" was still alive, how did Nemo get the missiles out without the crew noticing? When you're done figuring out that puzzler, ponder this: is it ever a good idea to abandon ship 25,000 feet below the surface of the ocean? A quick Internet search would raise a few cautions, but I guess that was too much research for the Bologna team to undertake.

"30,000 Leagues Under The Sea" is a really terrible movie: it has a completely impossible plot (forget suspension of disbelief,) terrible acting (Lawlor alternated between good and way over the top,) a ludicrous love story, generally poor special effects (the "Nautilus" was decent, the squids were laughable,) and a script that was hackneyed to put the best possible spin on a dire situation. Rather than watching this vacuous retooling of the Jules Verne classic, do yourself a favor: go to the library and borrow a copy of the book instead. Normally bologna sausage is made from chicken, pork, or beef. As tasty as that may be, I do not recommend bologna containing giant squid.

3.0 out of 5 stars WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE?, November 28, 2011

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Michael Ledo (Windsor, SC United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 30,000 Leagues Under the Sea (DVD)

People who read books should not watch movies. There will never be any similarity between them. Does that make them bad? Verne's book "Journey to the Center of the Earth" is boring compared to any film made about it...except maybe ones with Doug McClure. 30,000 Leagues is clearly deeper than 20,000 Leagues but that doesn't make for a deeper film. This movie made me feel like I was in the first grade playing, "What's wrong with this picture?" It was fun and the only way to watch this film and enjoy it.

The first question I had to raise (having served on a nuclear sub) was when did they start allowing women to serve on subs? The answer I got from Wiki was December 2011...meaning it hasn't happened yet and certainly didn't happen in 2007 when this film was made. Okay, but it made for a more interesting film. Now the enlisted people had dark black background petty officer patches sewn to their left arm on their light blue shirt. The background on the patch is supposed to be the same color as the uniform. The woman appears to have a steel workers insignia, i.e. a construction rating and not an engineering or electrical type rating as one might expect. The male petty officer appears to have a discontinued (as of 2006) photographer's mate insignia. This is a special sub and would be considered a re-enlistment bonus for top first class petty officers in the engineering field, not a second class photographer's mate. Natalie Stone as Lieutenant Commander Lucille Conciel has her oak insignia on the right lapel only. The captain had his birds on both lapels and Lorenzo Lamas as Lieutenant Michael Arronax had his Lt. bars on one lapel and a chief petty officers anchor on the other. You got to ask yourself what did they do? Go to an army-navy store and buy a handful of stuff and tried to make it work? Of course they are going to try to rescue a sub that is stuck on the bottom (in tact?) at 20,000 feet that was taken down by a giant squid. In the following scene Lamas "corrects" his lapel insignias by eliminating the chief's anchor and replacing his double Lt. bars with a single silver Lt. junior grade bars. Did he get busted in those 2 minutes?

As their small sub descends they can look out into the ocean fairly clearly and see all kinds of things growing from the ocean floor. This is wrong on so many levels. 1) They don't have viewing window or screen doors on subs. 2)If they did it would be too dark to see much of anything 3) They are diving near the Marianas Trench. They wouldn't see the ocean flora even if they had a window with visibility.

As the small Aquanaut descends it shakes as if it is falling apart. The reason given is because they are going through thermal layers which rocks the boat. Hmmm. Actually submarines operate in those thermal layers because it makes it harder to be detected. And was that flames underwater?

The movie is fun as Asylum films demonstrate they know nothing about the Navy. Why do they insist on making ocean films? The only fun in watching this film is finding the errors. Captain Nemo was played bad. Natalie Stone look as if she was playing Casey Anthony on trial with the way she had her hair.

No f-bombs, sex, or nudity. Frequent "Asylum actress", Kim Little looks cute in a pony tail and that is about as sexy as it gets. 3 stars for all the wrong reasons.