Surprisingly incoherent and boring

So much average

There is definitely an excellent idea hidden in the background of the film. Unfortunately, it's difficult to find it.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Sinbad is the captain of a ship sailing to the city of Bagdad to marry his princess as part of a political treaty between that city and Chandra...but they run out of food and water and make an emergency stop for supplies at an island where they end up fighting off a cyclops and rescuing a magician who has a magic lamp complete with genie. The magician is saved, but his lamp is lost on the island...and the magician is determined more than anything to get the lamp back, even if it means shrinking the princess to doll-size and forcing Sinbad to sail back to the island to retrieve it. But the hazards there include more monsters than just the cyclops.Average B-movie adventure, not well-written or well-performed, with the stop-motion monsters being the film's real attraction. Okay to entertain the kids, but not really worth viewing otherwise.

Shot in the then-dazzling film-process called "Dynarama" - I remember, as a wide-eyed kid of 10, being absolutely struck with total awe while watching this cheesy Fantasy/Adventure picture from yesteryear.With its introduction of several delightfully monstrous, stop-motion creations by effects-man, Ray Harryhausen (including a ferocious, one-horned Cyclops - Wow!) - This pre-CGI film was a child's most spectacularly exciting nightmare come true on screen.But, alas - (As one might expect) - Time (yes-unforgivable time) has not been at all kind to this 1958 Sinbad, the Sailor, production. No. It hasn't.Remembering my excitement as a fascinated child - I honestly did try to cut this 60-year-old relic some nostalgic slack - But, unfortunately - As a jaded viewer of today - I could only grade Sinbad's 7th Voyage with just an "average" 5-star rating.

When a princess is shrunken by an evil wizard, Sinbad (Kerwin Mathews) must undertake a quest to an island of monsters to cure her and prevent a war.Ray Harryhausen strays a little bit from the monsters and aliens we love him for. But only just a little bit, as we have plenty of other mythical monsters here. Horror? Not really, no. But any fan of his work is going to have to see this.I cannot say I am a big follower of Sinbad, so I do not know the stories of his voyages or whatever. But this one seems to borrow very heavily from the 1001 Arabian Nights. The genie and the princess seem very much like something we expect from "Aladdin" or with Ali Baba.

Sinbad (Kerwin Mathews) is transporting Princess Parisa (Kathryn Grant) to Baghdad for their wedding. They stop off at the mysterious Colossa Island to get provisions. They rescue the magician Sokurah escape a Cyclops. Sokurah uses the magic lamp Genie to raise a barrier against the Cyclops. The Cyclops throws a boulder and knocks the lamp from Sokurah. Sinbad refuses to go back and retrieve the lamp from the Cyclops. The Caliph of Baghdad celebrates the marriage which seals a peace between kingdoms. Sakurah again requests a ship to return to Colossa but the Caliph refuses. Sokurah angers everyone when he prophesies war between the two nations and the Caliph banishes him. Later that night, Sokurah shrinks the princess. Sokurah convinces the desperate Sinbad that he foresaw this transformation and they must return to Colossa with the princess to get the necessary ingredients for a magic potion. Sinbad has no crew so he recruits criminals from the prison.This is a B-movie in most aspects. The acting is bad. The dialog is horribly stiff. The action is mostly old swashbuckling affair. The story is simplistic. The only thing worthwhile in this movie is the work of Ray Harryhausen. His stop-motion animation is the best special effects of the era. They are simply works of art. Without them, this is no more than 3/10. This is a showcase of Ray Harryhausen's groundbreaking skills.