The Golden Voyage of Sinbad

6/5. Definitely the best of the three. The story is coherent (well, almost) for a start. The dialogue and the writing generally are much better than the other two. Clemens was/is actually a good writer. The acting by the blue-eyed Arabs was better: Baker and Law were almost convincing. You felt a bit sorry for Baker, and Sinbad was very noble, and knew how to treat a lady. Good accents: I suppose when they were speaking Arabic they had English accents. The monsters were all great, as usual, and I felt real sympathy for the poor little homunculus. Everything was put together well. We had the gold mask of Agamemnon, the dhows of either the Persian Gulf, or the Suez Canal, Allah was with us, Hindu temples exploded, Buddha smiled, and Kali (actually she looked more like Siva, Lord of the Dance) danced and flashed a lot of scimitars. Finally we ended up at the Fountain of Youth (straight out of Rider Haggard's "She"), which, blow me down, was in fact centred in the middle of Stonehenge, which in turn was in Aladdin's Cave, populated by fairly small green men, as well as a combination Greek cyclopic centaur. Sinbad got around. There were some good lines. I actually laughed when the idle merchant's son got the shock of his life when he was told he had to work. Through the entire tale there was an extremely tense undercurrent of suspense: was Caroline going to fall out of her bodice before the end, or was she not? No spoilers here. The only bit I didn't understand was how the villainous Tom Baker failed to win the battle when he was both invisible and had regained his youth. Still, there has to be a bit of mystery in this genre.

Remarkable movie for the time period, without modern computer-generated action. My family and I enjoy this movie a great deal....clean, some comedy, good plot, and pretty amazing creatures and effects for the period. The heroine's outfits aren't on the modest side, but, there isn't even a hint of romance all movie long.

Well packaged and quickly shipped!

This Sinbad has some great stop-motion animation however the best of it doesn't occur until the last fifteen minutes of the film so in that respect this is a very slow builder, but worth it for the end.

Sinbad and his ship's crew find a special key. Koura an evil magician wants it back. Vizier turns up with the rest of the key and together they go on a quest to solve the riddle of what it opens.

Of course the main reason to watch it is for the stop-motion. In the golden voyage you get centaurs, griffen, the godess kali, a ship's statue and harpies. The centaur and griffen battle is the big one but the godess kali fight sequence is also very impressive for its time. Watch this for the animation. The story doesn't really cut it though.

Just a quick note to anyone who sees this: as usual, these are not the true widescreen presentations. If you watch the full screen presentation and pick any scene with good border definitons, and then find the same scene in the widescreen version, you'll notice the edges have been edited over with black to create a widescreen appearance. In other words, instead of viewing MORE visual borders of these movies, the widescreen print is actually presenting much LESS than what was filmed. Stick with the fullscreen viewings so you don't miss anything.

Parents,if you can't find anything for you and the kids to watch because of either being too violent or bad language,then why not this movie and the others that Ray Harryhausen did?? It has cool looking creatures and lots of action.It doesn't always have to be the newest releases,does it?? Show them movies you grew up on or your parents grew up on,so what are you waiting for??