Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger
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Actor: Dennis Muren, Henry Selick, Margaret Whiting (II), Patrick Wayne, Taryn PowerBrand: Sony Pictures
Producer: Charles H. Schneer
Producer: Ray Harryhausen
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); Georgian (Subtitled); Chinese (Subtitled); Thai (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 114 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-07-11
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
DVD Reviews of Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger
DVD Review: Probably a voyage we could have done without...
Summary: 3 Stars
With Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977), thus ends my journey with the legendary sailor of the seven seas, and it was a bit of a letdown, but still entertaining. The third and final Sinbad outing co-produced by Ray Harryhausen and Charles H. Schneer, co-written by Beverley Cross (Clash of the Titans) and Ray Harryhausen, the film was directed by actor/sometimes director Sam Wanamaker (Irreconcilable Differences, Raw Deal). Starring is Patrick Wayne (Beyond Atlantis, The People That Time Forgot), son of The Duke, and Jane Seymour ("Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman"). Also appearing is Taryn Power ("The Count of Monte-Cristo"), Margaret Whiting ("Shroud for a Nightingale"), Patrick Troughton (Scars of Dracula, The Omen), and Kurt Christian (Horror Hospital, The Golden Voyage of Sinbad). An interesting note...the actor credited as playing the Minoton (the robotic Minotaur) is Peter Mayhew, who's probably most famous for his role as that big, hairy, lovable wookie Chewbacca in the Star Wars films.
The film (shot in Dynarama!) begins in the kingdom of Charak during a coronation ceremony to crown the new caliph, Prince Kassim, but something goes wrong...horribly, horribly wrong...next we see Sinbad (Wayne) and his men arriving on the shores of Charak, only to learn the city is closed off due to a mysterious `plague'. Turns out Princess Farah's (Seymour) wicked stepmother Zenobia (Whiting) has surreptitiously worked some evil magics with the intent on putting her son Rafi (Christian) on the throne. This is threatened by the arrival of Sinbad, who's got the hots for the princess, but can only get permission to marry her from the caliph, of which there is none at the moment, so off he goes to locate a cure in the form of Melanthius (Troughton), a reclusive genius (hardly so, as we'll find out later, but he does have a really big mouth) and may be able to reverse the curse set upon the land. They do find the Melanthius, and his comely daughter Dione (Power), but the quest doesn't end there as now they must travel to the very ends of the Earth to the frozen land of Hyperborea to locate the Shrine of the Four Elements (and get there before the evil Zenobia and her son), a structure created by a people, who, as Dione puts it, `became too civilized and destroyed each other', whatever that means. The journey is a difficult one, fraught with the perils of a prehistoric walrus, an uppity baboon, a large bee, a bronze Minotaur, and a surly sabertooth tiger, but the alternative is apparently worse, as Rafi is pretty annoying and would make a lousy caliph, with his witchy mother Zenobia pulling the strings...so it's off we go, on one, last, great adventure with Captain Sinbad and his crew of soon to be victims...er, I mean his crew of fearless sailors...(seriously, given Sinbad's history of returning from his journeys with significantly less men that he left with, I gotta figure it would be increasingly difficult for him to properly man his vessel).
Apparently John Phillip Law, who played the role of Sinbad in the last film The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1974), was approached to appear in this film, but declined, so they got Patrick Wayne for the part, which is about as smart as casting his father John Wayne in the role of Genghis Khan in the 1956 film The Conqueror, which is to say it was a poor casting choice, to say the least. Patrick and his Mike Brady permed hair brought very little to the character of Sinbad, especially compared to those who came before him in Kerwin Mathews and John Phillip Law, but then again, the entire production was lacking, so it's unfair to put it all on Wayne's shoulders. Obviously Schneer was going for an epic here, pumping in a princely sum of seven million dollars (think of that in terms of mid 1970s dollars, Bubba), but ultimately a good deal of it was wasted in the bloated nearly two hour running time (the film runs 113 minutes). The thing that annoyed me more than anything about this film was, as someone else already stated, the overabundance of very obvious blue screen/matte work, and I'm not just talking about usage during the inclusion of Harryhausen's stop motion effects, but more so during location shots. The film would constantly cut back and forth from matte to non-matte shots, and it really served to draw me away from the story. Some aspects looked good, the sets (the temple at the end looked good), the costumes, etc., but there were just too many characters running around, which served only to draw away from what should have been the focal point of the film in Sinbad himself...instead he felt like a somewhat secondary character in his own movie. I did like the ladies, and there was a good deal more skin shown here than in the previous two films (Miss Seymour has a nip slip early on, while Miss Power has one much later in the film)...that's not to say their performances were outstanding, but they provided an attractive distraction, especially when they went skinny dipping together...I do like the Seymour. As far as the villain character of Zenobia, she was probably the weakest I've seen in awhile, not so much by the way she was played but more the way she was written, which was poorly. Her main power seemed to consist of turning herself into a gassy seagull in order to spy on Sinbad...I'm hardly impressed. The potential was there, but the script virtually extinguished any glimmer of juicy evilness. Harryhausen's stop motion work ranged from relatively decent to uncharacteristically tame (the demon fighters sequence felt sluggish), with the highlight being the sabretooth tiger near the end. I was really disappointed at the outcome of the Minaton, as here we spend a good deal of the film watching and waiting (the build up), expecting a spectacular battle scene of sorts, only to witness a fairly unspectacular fate (essentially it gets crushed by a slab of rock). The multi-colored troglodyte was fun while the giant, prehistoric walrus was just odd. Overall there are some decent aspects to the film (which is essentially a showcase for Harryhausen's work and not much else), but it's way too long (they could have cut about 30 minutes and had a better picture), hampered by weak and unfocused direction, ineffectual characters, and excessive dependence on blue screen/matte special effects. At the very least it was satisfying to see the character of Rafi get what was coming to him, especially since the actor who played him appeared in the previous film (as different character) was very annoying.
The DVD presents an excellent looking widescreen (1.85:1) anapmorphic print, and features a decent Dolby Digital 2.0 mono audio track. There are some special features available, including two featurettes titled `This is Dynamation' (3:26) and `The Ray Harryhausen Chronicles' (57:53), along with production notes within an included booklet, and a trailer for this film, along with ones for other Harryhausen works like The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958), 20 Million Miles to Earth (1957), Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956), The 3 Worlds of Gulliver (1960), and Jason and the Argonauts (1963). The special features here are nothing new, especially if you own other releases in the Ray Harryhausen collection.
Cookieman108
By the way, just who the heck kept letting the stinkin' baboon out of its cage? Perhaps a better locking mechanism would have assisted in keeping it secured away.
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?MPAA Rating: G
?Format: DVD
?Runtime: 114 minutes
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