Review – 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

When I was a kid I wanted to grow up to be Captain Nemo. Now this guy’s got it made. He lives in a cool submarine, and his only job is to go around sinking ships full of people who sound like they desperately need killing. And I’ll bet a dude who’s such a snappy dresser and plays the organ to boot has no trouble getting dates, assuming there were any dates to be gotten (and on a submarine in a Disney film, you know the answer to that question is “no”). I guess we’re supposed to regard the Kirk Douglas character as the hero, the brash, swaggering all-American seaman type and all that. But I still side with James Mason’s Nemo, the ultimate anti-hero and a child’s introduction to eco-terrorism. Worth seeing