Starring: Jon Voight, Mary Steenburgen, F. Murray Abraham, Carol Kane, James Coburn Directed By: John Irvin Average Rating: Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: Unrated Binding: DVD Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC Label: Lions Gate Number of Items: 1 Region Code: 1 Release Date: July 27, 1999 Running Time: 156 minutes Theatrical Release Date: May 02, 1999
Amazon.com: 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
Not what i expected it was nice to see all the special effects of animals and the flood but the story was totally out. I don't get why they added so many irrelevant parts to the story, like when Lot was trying to take over the boat, or when Noah's family went a little crazy. Maybe this was for the kids but it was how it was written in the Scriptures.
This is not the God of the Bible I got this movie bundled with "Jonah, A VeggieTales Movie", recently at Sam's Club. I was sadly disappointed in this film. As other reviews have very well mentioned, this film is not based on the Bible.
This movie starts out with a war scene in a violent, sex-crazed society. I can give it that, I'd imagine the pre-flood society to be something like this. Then it just goes down hill, we are introduced to Noah's friend "Lot", and yes this is apparently the Lot in the bible because they both flee Sodom together, and Lot's wife even turns into a pillar of salt!
About an hour into the film, we get to the point of the movie, where Noah starts to build the ark. Fortunately for Noah, God gets impatient with him and gathers and builds a majority of the ark for him.
The animals are gathered, and Noah and family shut the door. Wait a minute, in the bible, God shuts the door? Flood happens, everyone dies, oh but wait, there is a traveling salesman who sells Noah alcohol after the flood so he can get drunk, and there are also pirates on the water after the great flood to try and seize the ark (Have you heard enough yet?)
And probably worse of all, which is why I'm trashing this film, near the end of this film, "God" is viewed as a being who can't make up his mind, first he wants to save Noah, then he wants to destroy him, then he leaves and forsakes him for a time, then he comes back to tell him he's going to die, then after a crazy dance he changes his mind and will save him again. In fact, they even get this "God" to admit he makes mistakes too.
Don't even use this film as a teaching tool for your children about how bad movies are made. Guess what?, they decided to throw a few "A" and "D" bombs into the mix. What a filthy movie...
Don't buy this movie, don't sell this movie, trash this movie immediately if you have it.
should be zero stars I made the mistake of buying this at Sam's without reading the reviews here first. The negative reviews were totally accurate. As I watched, I kept hoping for at least a clip that I could show my church youth group since we're studying Genesis right now. Not only is it horribly inaccurate, it's downright blasphemous. (It said God can make a mistake!) I was disgusted over and over again by all the things other already mentioned... The issue of Noah taking Abraham's role and asking God not to destroy Sodom, the innuendo that the Bible can't be trusted, a peddler on a boat that survived the flood, Lot's ship attacking the ark, Noah's sons not being married, God trying to decide whether to destroy Noah's family or not, I could go on, but I'd just be rehashing what others have already stated. The producers had total disregard for the true story. This is worse than a fairy tale. At least with a fairy tale, you know it's not true. Unsuspecting young Christians without much Bible knowledge could really be misled. I'm sure the devil was gloating when this was produced. Typical of his style, there is just enough truth mixed in with all the lies to make it believable to someone who doesn't know any better. It undermines faith. I wish I could give this film negative stars. It was that bad.
Far beyond "poetic license"... My wife bought this movie thinking it might be somewhat related to the story of Noah described in Genesis. Instead, they combined the story of Noah with that of Abraham and Lot, Sodom and Gomorah, and anything else the director had heard of from the Bible, and quite a bit just straight out of a Hollywood writer's doped-up brain. The opening credit talks about taking poetic license with the story, but I assumed this was to add in dramatic elements and theatrical depth in a very cut-and-dried Biblical account. But no, the melding of people that lived generations apart, and the blatant disregard for any sense of historical accuracy seems to indicate an attitude towards the Bible bordering on contempt or ridicule. Don't waste any time or money on this movie.
the worst Bible's based movie I've ever seen. AVOID IT please I couldn't finish watching it. This is a terrible movie. The worst movie I've ever seen. I don't uderstand how Jon Voight accepted this project.
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