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Summary: Classic Fantasy
Review: One of my favorite movies of all time, it thrilled me when I was a youngster (I'm 44 now) and made me into a Ray Harryhausen fan. I watched it yesterday with my 10 year old daughter and she was transfixed. Besides Harryhausen's awesome special effects, the film features a wonderful score by the great Bernard Herrman and a wonderfully creepy villain played by Torin Thatcher.
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Summary: A grand fantasy adventure
Review: One of the most entertaining films of the 1950s is this entry of Sinbad's voyage to the mysterious island of Colossa to retrieve a magic lamp coveted by an evil sorcerer. The story has elements of Greek mythology, with its reference to the Isle of Sirens, and the very real danger of the cyclops that inhabit the forbidden island and from whom Sinbad and his crew must wrest the magic lamp. Kerwin Mathews is believable as Sinbad, the handsome and sincere hero who is maneuvered into undertaking the perilous journey by the wily Sokurah, the magician who will stop at nothing to possess the magic lamp. The film has many exciting scenes but perhaps the highlight is the thrilling swordfight between Sinbad and the skeleton in Sokurah's cave as the mad magician has summoned the skeleton to destroy Sinbad in order to seize the lamp. The movie has brilliant Technicolor lensing, a pulsating music score by Bernard Herrmann and terrific special effects by Ray Harryhausen.
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Summary: Classic movie magic!
Review: Outstanding visual effects from Harryhausen combined with a wonderful music score help to make this one of the greatest fantasy films of all time. A must for all fans of stop motion animation!
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Summary: As Spectacular As The First Time
Review: Ray Harryhausen is *the* Special FX God, can I just get that out of the way? I am a colossal nostalgia freak and this is one of a very select few movies that live up to the years of hype generated from childhood memory. Not uncoincidently, most of those select movies are Harryhausen pictures.7th has always had a special place in my heart and I'm not sure why. It could be that Kerwin Mathews is the best actor B-level monster movies has ever had, and his Sinbad is neither riddled with massive amount of hair or saddled with a bad accent. Perhaps it's because the villain is manipulative and clever, and the creatures roaming his island are some of the best and most seamlessly edited in you'll ever see. Or it could be the jaw-dropping dragon, with his swirly antelope horns and personality enhancing eyebrow ridges. Yeah...it's probably the dragon. Neither the story nor the production values have been ravaged by time, although some of the mano-y-mano fight scenes are a bit suspect (Um, why is Sinbad stabbing people with his fist, and how come the Princess doesn't suffocate or get squashed?). But even those questions don't hamper the movie so much as give you little things to look for. The disc itself is a treasure chest of bonuses. I'd seen the 'Chronicles' when it aired on AMC but the Leonard Maltin interview (Oddly, about 'Jason and the Argonauts') was interesting and it was fun to read the talent files, which are usually a bore, and flip through the old promo pics and movie posters. The two standouts are the cornucopia of original trailers, which are of the lion's share of Harryhausen's films, and the 'Look Behind the Voyage' featurette that gave me all sorts of random trivia and even more things to look for the next time I watch the movie itself. Very rarely do I give something five stars, but this DVD is so phenomenal I'd give it six if I could.
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Summary: The seventh Voyage of Parenting.
Review: Read through these reviews of mine and you will find a few based on the wild a weird world of parenting. My son, now seemingly done with the drag queen phase, has gone to the wacky comedy phase, and a little of the adventure phase. Harry Potter is god at our house (hey, we're so unique).
One day, when my son was sick, I went to the family section of our video store and found this dvd. I grabbed some more traditional fare, your disney and such...and remembered loving this when I was eight. My son is five, and even though we try to keep him away from ultraviolence, I picked up this movie and went on.
What a hit!!! I mean, yes, you have to talk through some things(I"m not a parent who gets a video and plugs the kid in) there definitely is violence( "Oh, he's throwing the man off the cliff, that's a bad choice" ..." "Oh I don't think the dragon and the cyclops are good or bad. They're just trying to protect themselves."_) a little romance ("That's Sinbad? Why is he kissing a girl?) and a few slow spots(When's the two headed bird coming)(and a traumatic moment where sinbad's men kill a bad two headed bird...) but this is a great ride.
Oddly enough, the special effects pretty much hold up. I was trying to explain to my son that the movie was older than computers and was half expecting to really see the flaws. Don't get me wrong...the jaded ones of you will definitely see differences...but this is a wonderful movie...with a little kid genie, a bald evil magician, and a tiny Kathryn Grant(later Bing Crosby's trophy wife). Kerwin Matthews is a respectable hero. Not all that exciting...but non controversial. so if you are looking for a timepasser for your family...this is a good one.
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Summary: Excellent =)
Review: Real fun movie to watch, great effects, and also great story line as well. I LOVE when the maiden is turned into a half cobra half human by the evil magician for the sultans party, that was really kewl :)
A great movie to have and watch over again!
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Summary: Very retro, but fun
Review: Remember in "Monsters, Inc." where the hottest nightclub in town was called Harryhausen's? It was homage to the man who created a generation of special effects movies, this one included. Stop-action animation has a dated look now, but but it goes with the costuming and sets of the time. The sword-fighting skeleton, the cylcops, dragon, Roc, and minor figures are all incredible achievements. It takes a very special kind of eye to see natural motion and break that into cel-length pieces, but Harryhausen had that knack. Harryhaussen was also central in developing the camera and photo-composition techniques needed, and probably still used today. Arabian Knights purists are probably asking themselves where the dragon and cyclops came from. Don't worry about it - this is entertainment, not scholarship. If you can settle yourself into its antiquated style, it's still good fun.
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Summary: Very retro, but fun
Review: Remember in "Monsters, Inc." where the hottest nightclub in town was called Harryhausen's? It was homage to the man who created a generation of special effects movies, this one included. Stop-action animation has a dated look now, but but it goes with the costuming and sets of the time. The sword-fighting skeleton, the cylcops, dragon, Roc, and minor figures are all incredible achievements. It takes a very special kind of eye to see natural motion and break that into cel-length pieces, but Harryhausen had that knack. Harryhaussen was also central in developing the camera and photo-composition techniques needed, and probably still used today. Arabian Knights purists are probably asking themselves where the dragon and cyclops came from. Don't worry about it - this is entertainment, not scholarship. If you can settle yourself into its antiquated style, it's still good fun.
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Summary: classic swashbuckler
Review: THE 7TH VOYAGE OF SINBAD is a classic swashbuckler, highlighted by Ray Harryhausen's superb stop-motion special effects creatures. Sinbad (Kerwin Mathews) must journey to the island of Colossus to free his beloved princess (Kathryn Grant) from an evil magician's spell. Along the way he battles the memorable two-headed bird known as the Roc and a hideous fire-breathing dragon. Ray Harryhausen deliver's some fabulous special effects that still manage to stand up alongside modern blockbusters. Also featuring Richard Ever and Torin Thatcher. The DVD includes a new High-Definition print along with the trailer, featurette: "The Harryhausen Chronicles", featurette: "Harryhausen discusses Jason and the Argonaughts", featurette: "Harryhausen discusses The 7th Voyage of Sinbad", featurette: "This Is Dynamation", and trailers for other Harryhausen films.
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Summary: mythical monsters
Review: The 7th Voyage of Sinbad is a great film. It is one of the greatest monster fantasy films ever made. I remember watching this film when I was a boy and it turned me on to monster and sci-fi films. I love the cyclops in the film, the skeletons, the two headed bird and the fire breathing dragon. Ray Harryhausen was definitely a technical and cinematic genius.
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