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Second dose of swashbuckling

The Legend of Zorro (English)

Cast: Antonio Banderas, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Rufus Sewell, Adrian Alonso

Director: Martin Campbell

Adults who make the trip to see The Legend of Zorro would be well advised to do two things before they enter a theatre. Embed their tongue firmly in cheek and take a hefty pinch of salt. That way, they will be spared any disappointment. Younger audiences need no such precaution: Director Martin Campbell (who also directed the first Zorro film seven years ago) has cannily thrown in a youthful character they can relate too: Joaquin aka Junior Zorro (Adrian Alonso) who has some nice comic moments of his own. Don Alejandro (Banderas) and Elena (Zeta-Jones) are how man and wife; but the Don's crusading zeal to assume his Zorro `avatar' and ensure that California joins the United States inspite of the efforts of some robber barons, sorely tests the marriage.

Elena wants to end it — and seems to find consolation in a former school mate and aristocrat Armand (Sewell). Bad decision: he is one of the baddies intent on blowing up California.

Anand Parthasarathy

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