Best movie of this year hands down!

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

I gave this film a 9 out of 10, because it was exactly what I expected it to be.

I saw this film first when I was 11 years old and seeing it 59 years later hasn't diminished me enthusiasm. This is some of Ray Harryhausen's best work and first with classical characters as opposed to futuristic science fiction.Playing Sinbad is Kerwin Matthews who seemed to like doing these films, he was so often cast in them. He's getting ready to marry Princess Kathryn Crosby and that's something for even a sea captain to marry into the royal family.But when they're blown off course and come to an island where magician Torin Thatcher headquarters and shares it with a cyclops, a giant flying roc bird and a fire breathing dragon Thatcher keeps to protect his lair it's trouble. Thatcher has possession also of a magic lamp with a boy genie Richard Eyer who like Pinnochio wants to be a real live boy. Watching The 7th Voyage Of Sinbad really takes me back to when I was 11 years old. You can still thrill at my age to what Harryhausen does with those monsters. An 11 year old of any age can still thrill to the dragon and cyclops duking it out while our hero escapes with his lady love.Thatcher's a villain that will give you nightmares. He's pure evil, the kind you applaud when he gets his.After almost 60 years The 7th Voyage Of Sinbad is still a great family film with whole cloth heroes and the darkest of villains.

I saw this movie when I was in grade school (ages ago). I was lucky enough to see it again recently. The story is good.The special effects of Ray Harryhausen are amazing,and had to have involved an incredible amount of work and patience. Computer special-effects in modern movies just aren't the same. This work is truly a masterpiece!

Released in 1958, "The 7th Voyage of Sinbad" was the first of three Harryhausen Sinbad flicks; the other two being 1973's "The Golden Voyage of Sinbad" and 1977's "Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger." In this first film Sinbad's love interest, Princess Parisa (Kathryn Grant), is shrunk by the magician Sokurah (Torin Thatcher) and Sinbad has to hurriedly muster up a motley crew to voyage to the monster-infested island of Colossa to apprehend an ingredient to restore her. Meanwhile Sokurah is obsessed with a magic lamp and the powers of the boy genie inside.Sinbad adventures play like a Middle Eastern version of Conan the Barbarian, albeit with a slightly funner edge and a less dour protagonist. So, if you love Conan you'll likely appreciate all three of these Sinbad films. And even though I describe these movies as having a fun edge, they're not goofy. They're serious sword & sorcery movies; the protagonists just exude the joy and vitality of living.The items I demand in a Sinbad adventure are obvious: A good casting choice for Sinbad, a great adventure story & locations, a colorful assortment of likable characters & love-to-hate villains, beautiful women, and quality F/X work (for the era). "The 7th Voyage" delivers in most of these areas with the exception that Kerwin Mathews, while certainly a heroic protagonist, is simply too whitebread to pull off the Arabic role. Both John Phillip Law and, especially, Patrick Wayne fit the role better in the sequels. Kathryn Grant is winsome and lovely, but she too is way too European for the role.The Spanish locations are excellent, the score is great and the F/X work is entertaining in a nostalgic way, but there are some blatant plot holes if you think too deeply. For instance, how could miniature Parisa possibly move that piece of wood that would be the size of a huge tree trunk to you or me? Since the chained dragon breathes fire why doesn't it just scorch the protagonists as they carefully walk past? Etc.Still, this is a worthwhile blast from the past. All three Sinbad movies are very different since each has a different person in the title role, not to mention the rest of the characters. I marginally prefer "The Golden Voyage" to this one, but "Eye of the Tiger" is my favorite because it has the best cast, story and sense of a long voyage/quest. But each has their strengths and weaknesses. For instance, the production values of "Golden Voyage" seem cheap at times while the runtime of "Eye of the Tiger" seems a bit padded.The movie runs 88 minutes and was shot in Spain.GRADE: B-

Of course this film is "dumb and dated." It was made in 1958, for crying out loud. Hence the title of my post.I saw this when I was in school and for the time, it was riveting. I grew up reading Andersen, the Grimm Brothers, and 1001 Nights (the kiddie version, you understand), so films like this one were catnip to me.This is not for young people used to Jurassic Park, Star Wars, and computer games. And I understand that.But if you were a kid way back in the *cough* 20th century, you might enjoy this, if only for nostalgic reasons. I had the chance to see this again on TV, a couple of days ago, and I enjoyed it quite a lot. Dated dumbness and all.