1989 Directed by Enzo G. Castellari, Luigi Cozzi
Fantasy tale based on the tale of the legendary sailor. Here Sinbad must recover five magical stones to free the city of Basra from the evil spell cast by a wizard. His journey takes him to the isle of the Amazons where the queen tries to capture him, to a battle with ghost warriors on the isle of the dead, and ultimately to a battle with his own double.
Sinbad e os Sete Mares, Sindbad - Herr der sieben Meere, Simbad, el rey de los mares
Why is no one singing the praises of this loony Italian mess-terpiece? The screenplay by Luigi Cozzi claims to be based on Edgar Allan Poe's "The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade," but this wacky thing takes only the most superficial inspiration from that satire, and is more a spiritual cousin to Cozzi's Hercules movies for Cannon. Legend has it Cozzi was initially refused a directorial position, but when credited director Enzo G. Castellari turned in an unusable 3+ hours of footage, they had to call in Luigi to turn it into something resembling a narrative feature. His solution was to present it as a bedtime story read by mom Daria Nicolodi to his own daughter, Giada, and to have her narrate…
Started as a tv-series with Enzo G. Castellari in the director's chair, the production got out of control.
So production company Cannon Films put their high hopes in their one and only wild card: Luigi Cozzi!
Due to the popularity of "Mr. Universe" Arnold Schwarzenegger and the movie "CONAN", Cannon Films started to produce their own Fantasy-flicks (with Schwarzenegger's "Mr. Universe"-successor Lou Ferrigno) "The seven magnificent gladiators" and "Hercules", written and directed by Bruno Mattei.
While Mattei was already shooting "The seven magnificent gladiators" he started to write the script for "Hercules". The finished "Hercules"-script was so bad, that producer Menahem Golan boiled with rage (Hercules getting blowjobs doesn't fit in a movie for kids and it definitely doesn't fit in a Golan-Globus'…
Honestly I could watch this another day and probably have more fun with it, and maybe it's because I just watched Picnic at Hanging Rock so I was in a high brow mood, but this sucked pretty hard.
Swordfights, kung fu, beautiful maidens, evil wizards, zombies, slime-monsters, ghost-warriors... all in a day's work for the sea-faring Arabian hero.
Not as mind-blowingly awesome as Ferrigno's earlier Hercules (1983) adventure, but still enjoyable in a fun, campy way.
The narration (a mother reading her child a bedtime story) does detract a lot from the film though, kinda ruined the pace and mood.
Lou Ferrigno (der original Hulk) ist Sinbad.
Cannon Films haben mal wieder ein trash film abgeliefert der spass macht.
Hirn aus , Film an :-)
L’overacting de John Steiner et les ralentis de Castellari me rendent heureux.
Pis SOURKA! ❤️
Eeeeeh, je pense que j’ai trop bu de gin tonic
(C’est quand même fascinant comment Lou Ferrigno peut être aussi huileux. )
A bit on the "kiddie" side of things, but still full of some amazingly jaw-dropping shit. To climb out of a pit, Sinbad sweet-talks a bunch of cobras, so he can tie them together to make a rope to escape, for example. Stars an AMAZINGLY COOL John Steiner, who plays the villain perfectly and chews all the scenery. Also, Daria Nicolodi is the narrator.
This was not an aquatic prequel to 1995’s Houseguest. I was disappointed to say the least.
Golan-Globus reunites with Lou Ferrigno to adapt Edgar Allan Poe... by not adapting Edgar Allan Poe. Has some charm due to some unintentionally hilarious moments.
Please don‘t take my rating as contempt. Yes, this is terrible. However, with John Steiner‘s overacting, the constant slow motion and a couple of laugh-out-lout unintentionelly funny moments, it fits the description „gloriously bad“ quite perfectly.
A predominantly dubbed cast of smashed together diversity misfits “sail” around a nondescript part of the world with inconsistent time periods of history where they battle giant snot monsters and beachy ghost knights with the power of oiled up muscles, opposing a wizard who chews so much scenery, they had to bring on sets from other B-Movies to fill his hammy appetite... which might actually explain the inconsistent time periods.
Best-Worst Moment: There is a blatant rip-off of the Princess Bride in the form of an introductory children’s book reading, however the pre-teen daughter’s dubbed voice sounds like she is the same age as her own mother.
Without managing to reach the bonkers heights of Ferrigno's two HERCULES films, this adventure is not without its sugar-cereal, Dorito-dust charms. Weldon writes in the second Psychotronic book that this was intended as a TV series, but was re-edited into a feature. I couldn't find any further substantiation of this, but it would explain the lack of nudity or strong violence. True or not, this adventure lays tonal groundwork for the "Hercules" & "Xena" shows of the following decade.
The more verifiable aspects of this film's troubled production clearly indicate why it feels like "whoever" made it might not've been familiar with Earth movies.
Great stuff? Nope. Fun stuff? Certainly.
Stumbled on this when I was trying to get to sleep at 2am. Well, I didn't get to sleep until 4am because this movie is completely bonkers. It's bizarre and over the top in the best way possible. I can't give it a very high score because obviously it has some serious flaws but I can't say I really cared a whole lot about them while I was watching it.
Lou Ferrigno (der original Hulk) ist Sinbad.
Cannon Films haben mal wieder ein trash film abgeliefert der spass macht.
Hirn aus , Film an :-)
Sinbad is well named given that not only is it a bad film but it's also a sin against cinema. There's not really a whole lot like Sinbad of the Seven Seas, it's a film which was produced on the cheap to cash in on the mids 80s love of Conan and other schlock sword and sandal epics but made for the catering budget of those films with a largely unknown cast and not much in the way of sense. Visually it looks decent but as a film, it's a complete mess, the action is woeful with obviously fake swords bending in the wind as our heroes engage in some of the slowest fighting this side of an underwater fistfight.…
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