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
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Rating: - Don't buy Noah' Ark
If you're looking for the Noah's Ark story from the bible, then DO NOT buy this. It's a fairytale. It starts out with Noah being friends with Lot and Noah warning Lot to leave Sodom before God blows ... Read More
Rating: - 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 ... Read More
Rating: - 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. ... Read More
Rating: - 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 ... Read More
Rating: - 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 ... Read More
- Don't buy Noah' Ark