Admittedly, nostalgia is coloring this review, since I remember it fondly from my childhood. Who could forget the giant fist in the tower, trying to crush Sinbad as he tries to stab the evil ruler's satin pillow of a heart? Or Sindbad climbing a six foot thick diameter rope? We looked for years for the "Sinbad" movie with the magician who lengthens his arm, and hit upon it by chance one day. Who knew there was a Sindbad movie among the later Sinbad movies?
Sort of like the cheesy space movies that preceded the earth shattering Sci Fi classic, Star Wars, you have to suspend your sense of disbelief, not fixate on the fact that the special effects are not lifelike. Just try to remember what it was like, having fun watching a movie on Saturday, like when you were eight years old, and lucky enough to get money and a ride to the movies. This is an antidote to movies with computer special effects overload, like Transformers. Back to the age of innocence? Maybe not, but still good clean fun.
Sort of like the cheesy space movies that preceded the earth shattering Sci Fi classic, Star Wars, you have to suspend your sense of disbelief, not fixate on the fact that the special effects are not lifelike. Just try to remember what it was like, having fun watching a movie on Saturday, like when you were eight years old, and lucky enough to get money and a ride to the movies. This is an antidote to movies with computer special effects overload, like Transformers. Back to the age of innocence? Maybe not, but still good clean fun.