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  Review by James (Schaffrillas) ★★★½ 6

  Yo when Temuera Morrison lost his lamp I was literally crying and shaking

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  Review by nathaxnne [hiatus: blast injury] ★★★★½ 7

  totally adorable behorned/behooved cyclops couple spends all this time tracking down the perfect vacation rental only to find out that it was so cheap because there was some axxhole wizard next door who really wanted to engage in an escalating series of harrassments that made like having a cookout or walking on the beach with your metal detector finding a bunch of cool stuff and hiding it in a cave until you can take it back home and use it to decorate your patio or bathroom, imagining yourself regaling an imaginary guest with the story of your perfect vacation totally impossible with predictably tragic results and that is why not to trust those budget travel sites go with the pros…

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  Review by Sally Jane Black 1

  There's a lot to be said about a bunch of white people playing these roles, but they're really just scenery, anyway. What this movie is about is the special effects, which are warmly obvious. It's just charming, and there's a lot of silly action and campy dialogue and pure cheeze to enjoy. It mixes Greek myth and Arabian Nights, but to hell with it, it's awesome watching Harryhausen's effects, even if they aren't exactly convincing. They're clever and finely crafted, and there's a sense of wonder in watching them go.

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  Review by 20oldboy03 ★★ 12

  Ach, wie schön wäre es, wenn unsere Kindheitserinnerungen Kindheitserinnerungen bleiben würden, wir uns an den Erinnerungen an ihnen ergötzend, darüber schwärmend, sie glorifizierend, verkennend und wieder aufleben lassend.

  Wobei oftmals das aufleben ihrer, das zerbrechen ihrer ist, so oder so erlebte ich „Sindbads siebente Reise“.

  
  Kaum ist der Vorspann abgedreht und die kribbelnde Vorfreude hundertfach verstärkt der Bilder und der Musik, tauchen wir ohne größere Einführung in die Figuren und in das Geschehen, in den Film ein der ein sehr unpassendes Pacing an den Tag legt.

  Wo der Beginn viel zu schnell abläuft, als wollte Regisseur Nathan Juran niemanden enttäuschen mit dem Vorenthalten der Monster, dehnt sich der Mittelteil einfach viel zu lange aus der fehlenden Spannung oder des Ankerpunktes…

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  Review by DBC ★★★★½ 2

  A Year of Film History Challenge 2019
  (watching a little bit of film history month by month, decade by decade)
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  "Perhaps it is all a dream, and the one-eyed giant a nightmare."

  What a line, and this movie is full of 'em. It's part of the charm of Nathan Juran's The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, one of those great Technicolor 50's magical mythical adventures with stop motion creature effects by the man who revolutionized the art, Ray Harryhausen. All of his creations--from the aforementioned Cyclops to Medusa to the skeleton warrior--are each imbued with so much detail and personality that they are an absolute delight to watch each second they're on the screen.

  You don't have to wait long…

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  Review by Joe ★★★★★

  I know this probably isn't really the best of the classic Hollywood fantasy films, better than The Thief of Baghdad or The Wizard of Oz, but it's my favorite ever since I was a kid. Great monsters, great ship, great bad guy, great colors, great score. Nothing beats the skeleton swordfight, so much so that I always forget there's still more movie left after it ends.

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  Review by 👻Tanner🎃 ★★★★

  Oh man, I didn't realize we'd be getting Harryhausen's famous reanimated skeletons before Jason and the Argonauts. A cherry on top of the sundae that is The 7th Voyage of Sinbad and its litany of created handcrafted characters. Sindbad and the crew of his ship make landfall on the island of Colossa, where they encounter a magician named Sokurah as he flees from a giant cyclops.

  The magician uses the magic lamp he carries to call to the genie within, with the appearance of a young boy, to create a force field to protect the fleeing sailors from the colossus. He joins them on their ship but drops the lamp in the sea, which the cyclops picks up. Sokurah is…

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  Review by laird ★★★★ 3

  The most screen time I've seen dedicated to violence against a one-eyed monster since Antichrist.

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  Review by Carlo 666

  Just a gay old time on Monster Island with Ray Harryhausen being a fucking legend.

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  Review by Zero Ena ★★½ 1

  Wie sehr würde ich so gerne den Kindheitserinnerungen nachgeben und in diesen schwelgen. Doch leider war es mit den Kindheitserinnerungen und der dazu gehörigen Nostalgie nicht möglich Sindbads Abenteuer auf der Zyklopen Insel ohne Mankos zu genießen.
  So richtig los mit dem Abenteuer geht es erst nach einer Weile, auch wenn es vorher schon einen kleinen Stopp auf der Insel gab. Das ganze Geplänkel abseits der Insel wirkt stehts zäh und bietet nichts besonderes. Die Insel selbst wirkt wie ein kleiner Sandkasten mit Steinen wo ein paar Zyklopen plötzlich aus dem nichts auftauchen um die dumme Crew von Sindbad zu piesacken. Auch den Drachen hab ich eindrucksvoller in Erinnerung, ebenso wie der Kampf des Drachen gegen einen der Zyklopen.
  Mir…

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  Review by JerpsBerps ★★★★

  "He dares anything."

  After all this time, The 7th Voyage Of Sinbad is still able to impress with its ambitious mix of fantasy and adventure, memorable stop-motion effects, and a fun, albeit slightly bloated, narrative.

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  Review by Joe ★★★★★

  Probably being a little sentimentally generous with a 5-star rating because this was the first Harryhausen movie I ever saw on TCM as a kid (which subsequently caused me to check the channel every time I was near a TV to see if I could see some of it again), but what the hell. As an adventure film, it's near-perfect, and I do feel like the non-Harryhausen scenes are above average - well-acted, funny, and exciting. Of course, it goes without saying that Harryhausen's work is stupendous - the final skeleton vs Sinbad fight is probably my favorite sequence he ever did.

  One thing I'd never noticed before is how unique a villain Sokurah is. He works within the system, rather than autonomously, making him more like a politician than your usual fantasy villain. It's too bad politicians don't wear black cloaks in real life, things might be easier.