Visionary for the 50s, this suffers a bit from the serialized nature of the source material.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 15, 2024

... delivers when it comes to story, dialogue, acting and overall bonhomie; it’s a cinematic game-changer of its day that still comes up fresh as paint today...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 29, 2024

It never loses its sense of spectacle during the underwater journey in CinemaScope. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 7/10 | Aug 9, 2022

definitive big screen big budget adaptation

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 1, 2022

...hallucinatory and visionary and will spark the imagination - and, in fairness, possibly fuel some nightmares.

| Sep 10, 2021

A good one that could have been better with a little less Kirk Douglas and more scientific things to gawk at in wonder.

| Original Score: B+ | May 31, 2012

Bring on the David Fincher-helmed remake.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 18, 2011

A classic action-adventure for older kids.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 2, 2011

James Mason's portrayal of Captain Nemo is a hard-edged, dramatic performance, with no winking nods or cartoonish layers. You could transport Mason whole into a much darker movie with R-rated violence, and he would fit like a glove.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 6, 2010

A breathtaking piece of entertainment, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is amongst the finest live-action films to come out of Disney Studios.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Mar 9, 2009

Far superior to the majority of genre efforts from the period (or any period, for that matter), with production design and technical effects that have dated hardly at all.

| Jul 22, 2008

Walt Disney's production of 20000 Leagues under the Sea is very special kind of picture, combining photographic ingenuity, imaginative story telling and fiscal daring.

| Jun 6, 2007

One of the best Disney live action films and a classic fantasy-adventure.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 6, 2007

Grandly entertaining.

| Jun 6, 2007

This is one of Disney's best, and one of the all-time adventure greats. And that, I swear by my tattoo.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 3, 2006

This is one of the great movie adventures, fully deserving its canonisation in Disney World.

| Jun 24, 2006

As fabulous and fantastic as anything he has ever done in cartoons is Walt Disney's 'live action' movie made from Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 25, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 9, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 16, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 7, 2005