Yeah, Information technology's Bad, but That Doesn't Mean Information technology's Not Good.

Directed By Enzo Castellari / 1989

Street Date February half dozen, 2018 / Kino Lorber Studio Classics

Sinbad of the Seven Seas is a sword and sorcery moving picture produced past the Cannon Film Grouping, fabricated on the cheap in Italia, and starring a dubbed-over Lou Ferrigno. That should be enough to warn you that this will be a bad, bad picture. Any one of those would be a carmine flag in and of itself, merely Cannon could produce small gems like 52-Pickup on occasion, Italy gave us Vittorio De Sica, Sergio Leone and Fellini, and Ferrigno starred in TV'southward The Incredible Blob . All three put together, however, is the Defcon 1 of bad movies.

The movie is purportedly based on a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, and the moving picture leans hard on that connexion in trying to establish its bonafides. The plot is a basic fetch quest. The evil vizier, Jaffar, uses his heed command powers to usurp control of an ancient middle eastern city, forcing the sultan to offering his daughter'due south hand in marriage. No, wait, that'southward actually Disney's Aladdin . In Sinbad , the evil vizier, Jaffar, uses his mind control powers to usurp control of an ancient middle eastern urban center, forcing the sultan to offer his daughter's hand in marriage. To cement his rule, Jaffar scatters the four gems of power that practice… something to proceed to the people of Basra happy and prosperous. Sinbad and his merry crew (which includes Poochi the dwarf- I did not brand that up) must canvass across the world to notice them. I guess it turns out Poe was kind of a crappy author.

Anyway, Sinbad and company visit an oracle who details their upcoming adventures for them. They must visit the island of the Amazons, Skull Island and the Island of the Dead. Forth the way they'll have to defeat mind controlling magic, acrobatic Amazons, ghostly warriors and hideous monsters. And at the cease, they need to face off confronting Jaffar, his armored legions, and Jaffar'south ninth-level magic! Hopefully they'll besides see allies that can assist them on their quest to find the gems and restore the peace before time runs out and the gems disappear forever. That sounds similar the making of a very exciting motion picture, but we got Sinbad of the 7 Seas instead.

Sinbad of the Seven Seas is the Defcon one of bad movies.

Laying out the many flaws of a movie like Sinbad (and it has so very many flaws) would simply be a waste of fourth dimension and energy.  Furthermore in these times, in that location's more than plenty negativity to get around and I don't want to add to that unnecessarily. No film is a full loss, right? So in that spirit, I'm going to detail the things about Sinbad that I actually liked:

Sinbad was actually filmed on location in Basra, Iraq and whichever location they used to flick the interiors of the Sultan's palace has some fantastic tile piece of work. Ferrigno is nicely hostage as the hero. Sinbad turns out to be a parselmouth, so that's neat. The Chinese guy's costume is cool. The Viking guy has a neat weapon. The evil torturer really enjoys making bad puns! Sinbad punches a monster's heart out- and the heart has a niggling evil face on information technology! Skull Isle looks bang-up. Sinbad beats a rock monster by punching off its caput and and so throwing its own head back at it! The bit where the ghost warriors rise out of the sand is suitably creepy. Someone actually says the line "Yous do dreadful things to my biorhythm!"  At that place'south a slime monster that shoots lasers!

It shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone that Sinbad stinks. It's congenital into the expectations of anyone going into it. And there's definitely an audience for this sort of bad movie. thirteen seasons of Mystery Science Theater 3000, with more coming, have proven that. Heck, on proper nights I'grand in that audition. I volunteered to review this i, for sky'southward sake! There's a level of enjoyment ane tin can get from a movie that's just this unabashedly bad- much more so than from a movie that's otherwise well-crafted just boring and forgettable. I wasn't bored at all while watching Sinbad. Dislocated, angry, annoyed, and amused in turn, aye, but never bored. I'd just recommend it to people whom I know would get a kick out of its awfulness. If such a film would do dreadful things to your biorhythm, and so I'd stay far abroad.

Sinbad of the Seven Seas has been released on Blu-Ray by Kino Lorber Studio Classics. The picture has an aspect ratio of i.85:1 and a resolution of 1920x1080p. The simply extras included with the characteristic are a small collection of trailers for other fantasy films.