Despite trying to keep his swashbuckling to a minimum, a threat to California's pending statehood causes the adventure-loving Don Alejandro de la Vega and his wife, Elena, to take action.
In every imaginable way, this is a lesser film than the original.
– Richard Roeper,
Ebert & Roeper,
31 Oct 2005
rotten:
The Legend of Zorro spirals into a convoluted series of incidents, bordering on the impenetrable until they're finally revealed as nonsensical.
– Mick LaSalle,
San Francisco Chronicle,
28 Oct 2005
rotten:
The passionless string of the hoariest cliches is burnished with the phony luster of an I Can't Believe It's Not Butter commercial, and its plot seems to have been amalgamated by a computer program.
– Mark Rahner,
Seattle Times,
28 Oct 2005
rotten:
Though there's worse entertainment around, there may be more people rabid for the return of Prohibition than for a Zorro sequel seven years after the fact.