The Legend of Zorro

Antonio Banderas puts on the silly mask for a second ride, and this one’s a lot goofier than the first. Zorro is married to Catherine Zeta-Jones, and their little son is like a mini-Zorro, equipped with major sword fighting and flipping abilities even though he’s received no training and doesn’t know that his daddy is Zorro. An evil guy plans to cause mayhem in the United States by blowing things up with nitroglycerin extracted from soap. It’s all pretty hokey, but some of the action scenes are a hoot, and the horse gets a lot of laughs. Zeta-Jones burns up the screen again, and her work here is much better than that embarrassing turn in The Terminal. OK for a Sunday matinee but a bummer for Saturday night because it’s too damn long.