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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: Lions Gate
Salesrank: 37096
Released: July 27, 1999 |
| Our Price: $5.64 |
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MPAA Rating: Unrated
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Jon voight stars as noah in a lavish film about the biblical hero who built the ark. Dazzling special effects computerized creatures and a cast of thousands of animals combined to tell a story of biblical proportions. Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 09/13/2005 Starring: Jon Voight F. Murray Abraham Run time: 129 minutes Rating: Nr Director: John Irvin
Description of Noah's Ark:
Another in Robert Salmi's march of modern TV classics, Noah's Ark brings the ultimate disaster story to the small screen with impressive effects and handsome production design. "Liberties were taken for dramatic purposes," warns the opening credits and, to be sure, this shouldn't be taken as gospel (pardon the pun). Noah (Jon Voight), the last good man on Earth, is spared from the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah and chosen to build an ark to save his family and the creatures of the Earth from a cleansing flood. Like a bad penny, his best friend, Lot (F. Murray Abraham), a decadent hedonist turned brigand, keeps turning up in the most unlikely places, including a postapocalyptic sea battle that owes more to Waterworld than the Old Testament. It's an entertaining if episodic story led by an appropriately humble Voight, with Mary Steenburgen as his whiny wife (she musters a surprising amount of dignity for the part) and James Coburn as a jolly peddler. Jim Henson's Creature Shop fills up the floating zoo with a charming array of animals. It never compels as Salmi's previous telefilm epics, notably The Odyssey and Merlin, but liberal amounts of deadpan anachronistic humor (Lot and his wife, played by Carol Kane, come across as nothing less than comic-strip couple the Bickersons come to life) and spectacular scenes of destruction keep the film aloft through its lengthy running time. --Sean Axmaker
Noah's Ark Reviews:
Don't waste your money! 
2009-07-27 - I purchased this video thinking and hoping I was getting a great version of a wonderful Bible story. NOT! This is a very poor attempt at best and does a great disservice to the Truth of the Bible. Don't waste your hard earned cash on this poorly written movie. I wish I had looked at Amazon first and read the reviews. I would be $14.95 richer right now.
unbelievable
2009-06-01 - The movie itself wasn't so bad, and the special effects were very good, but------ Well, it certainly isn't something I'd advise as a means of helping children understand the the Noah of Genesis. It's the worst depiction of any Biblical movie I've ever seen (and I think I have every one ever made, except this one, which went directly into the trash). No, indeed, anyone who'd use this movie as a teaching tool for children, knows absolutely nothing about the Biblical account. I agree with the opinion that the writers, producers, etc, deliberately made a mockery of this story for their own secular minded purposes.
good movie 
2009-04-25 - This is a great way to show the younger children about Noah and the Ark. I highly recommend it.
Possibly the worst Bible movie ever made.
2009-04-06 - Can you imagine someone retelling American history and to shorten things up a bit, they have George Washington freeing the slaves and introducing the "New Deal," and then he gets shot in Dallas. That's what "Noah's Ark" does in telling Bible history. In this movie Noah prays for Sodom where his nephew Lot lives (It was Abraham who prayed for Sodom and his nephew Lot, several hundred years after the time of Noah). During the flood when Noah and his family are safely on the ark with all the animals, Lot comes along on a raft and tries to hijack the ark. Ugh! Possibly the worst Bible movie ever made. Nice special effects. That's it.
AWFUL!!!!!!!!!!! BEWARE
2009-04-04 - I have never felt compelled to write a review before - I just wanted to warn buyers beware - one of the worst wastes of money and to be avoided.
