For some reason I really like Sinbad movies.Not just these great films by Ray Harryhausen, I also like Sinbad The Sailor and even Sinbad Of The Seven Seas just as much.This is your typical Sinbad story.Sailing, magic and hot women.What else do you need?A prince has been turned into a baboon by an evil witch so her son can become the king.I think that's the set up, it was confusing.There's a lot of talk about Muslim religion stuff, assuming we know that crap.Sinbad decides to drop everything to help the prince because he wants the princess.It may be hard to pay attention to the movie with the extremely hot Jane Seymour running around half nude but watching it a second time will be easy.This is a movie everybody needs to see.

Filmed in "Dynarama" (whatever the heck that gimmick was), Sinbad (from 1977) was one of those easily forgettable, fantasy, adventure tales that, when it tried to be funny, it wasn't, and when it tried to be dead-serious, it was a laughable joke.This $3.5 million production was neither wondrous nor spectacular. Many of its scenes were, unfortunately, shot from in front of back-projection screens. And the "Ray Harryhausen", pre-CG monster effects were mediocre and disappointing at best.This was the sort of predictable movie-nonsense that would best be appreciated by a much younger, naive and less critical audience than myself. I'd say that at least 20 minutes could've easily been edited from this film's 112-minute running time and I'm sure no one would've been in the least bit upset.About the only really noteworthy thing to say about "Sinbad" was that its title character was played by the dashing, 38-year-old Patrick Wayne, son of the famed, veteran actor, John Wayne.

Sam Wanamaker directed this third Sinbad adventure with Ray Harryhausen's F/X on display, and this time they aren't enough. Patrick Wayne takes over the role from John Philip Law, and isn't as good(why JPL didn't return I don't know) Jane Seymour and Taryn Power are the female leads(no mention of Caroline Munro either!) Plot involves the quest to restore a young prince to his rightful throne(despite being turned into a chimp) with an evil witch and her son plotting to usurp it themselves. Past "Doctor Who" actor Patrick Troughton costars as a wise old man, but his performance does rise above the poorly written character. Whole film feels both tired and redundant, lost in the wake of "Star Wars"...

Harryhausen's crop of creations in this third and final entry in the Sinbad "series" are, perhaps the least effective of all of them (I think feathers and fur don't help), yet this film is maybe the strongest of them all in terms of story, character and emotion.And, while the creatures themselves may not be as effective as some, they are beautifully animated and, as usual, flawlessly integrated into the background plates. Plus both the baboon and Trog give performances of enormous emotional subtlety when you consider that they are essentially no more than rubber mouldings over a metal skeleton. There is no doubt that their creator is an artist of the highest order in a field where artists simply aren't recognised.