7/10
The Worst of the Three, but still fun
15 August 2023
I recently re-watched the three Sinbad the Sailor movies, and this was my least favorite of the three, but it only barely falls behind The Seventh Voyage.

There are a lot of things I love about this last installment in the series, and quite a few that had me rolling my eyes.

The plot took a lot of interesting turns that were quite different from the previous two. Some of these were great, but some were not so great.

Jane Seymour wasn't even close to as annoying as Kathryn Grant playing Parisa, but her acting wasn't very good, and she was absurdly overplayed as eye-candy. She's great to look at, but they put very little effort into disguising the fact that she served virtually no other purpose in the film.

Some of the creatures were good, but none were as memorable as the creatures in the first two (the second had the best). The titular "tiger" was the best visually, but it felt very tacked on, as if they'd created the title for the film and then figured out a way to cram a tiger into the plot.

I did enjoy Margaret Whiting as Zenobia, adding a bit of nuance with a female antagonist, but there was virtually no logic to her "magic," a problem the other two films had as well, but this one took it to a new extreme.

All in all, it's a fun film to watch, if you can get past the cheesiness of it. Having enjoyed it as a kid might go a long way toward solving that problem, but if you've never seen it before, it may be far too dated for you.
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