The Legend of Zorro: Blu-ray DVD Review (2007)

Legend? An overstatement, at least where this movie is concerned.

This self-aware, overblown follow-up to 1998's entertaining "The Mask of Zorro" is a misstep, with Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones reprising their roles, albeit without the sexual snap that drove the first film.

Set in 1850, the film finds Don Alejandro de la Vega (Banderas) and Elena (Jones), parents of 10-year-old Joaquin (Adrian Alonso), splitting when Vega, a.k.a. Zorro, decides he must help the people of California, who are about to be duped as they prepare for statehood.

The actors look fetching, but there's the sense that they already know this, which turns the production inward.

The film can be stultifying in its excess.

Rated PG. Grade: C+