The Sinbad trilogy from Harryhausen still has a soft spot in my plethora of movie favorites. I was first exposed to his adventures when I was a child and obsessed with seeing more movies from legendary creature creator, Ray Harryhausen. He has inspired so many other multi-layered adventure characters over the years. Can Sinbad wrestle with a goddess and get through uncharted territory in time to save his friend? Sinbad has always been an epic character and one of my favorites from classic literature and myth. Unbeknownst to Sinbad, Marina tags along.

Proteus puts his life on the line so that Sinbad can sail into uncharted territory and retrieve the book.

When Sinbad is eventually framed by Eris (Michelle Pfeiffer), the Goddess of Chaos for stealing the Book of Peace, Proteus defends his friend for the crime. Sinbad finds himself in a conundrum when he fails to obtain the book and ends up following his friend back to his palace where he is introduced to Proteus's future wife Marina (Catherine Zeta-Jones). The only problem is that his childhood friend Proteus (Joseph Fiennes) stands in his way. Sinbad (Brad Pitt) is a happy pirate bent on retiring to Fiji after stealing the legendary Book of Peace. This time a new animated film from DreamWorks delves into the myth with some celebrity voices in tow.

Three out of ten stars for the film(I've sadly seen worse) and nine out of ten for unintentional humor.Sinbad the Sailor, probably the greatest anti-hero of the Arabian Knights, has seen many incarnations over the years. Sinbad and his intrepid crew must find the four magic gems that will return peace to the land and save the princess. The Story: Sinbad returns home to find that the evil Jaffar has rested control of the kingdom with his sorcery and brought an age of darkness. Fun fact, the short story Edgar Allen Poe actually wrote, 'The Thousand and Second Tale of Scheherazade,' is an amusing story(far better than this movie) in which Scheherazade tells of Sinbad's last adventure in which real things from an outsiders perspective are described, but not believed by the King.

If you are not laughing at the film at some point, you must not have a good sense of humor. Poe's actual story bears little to no similarities to this tale, but the fact that it opens with the claim that it is based on his story is just part of the inane fun that is SINBAD OF THE SEVEN SEAS! This is a film so poorly written, acted, directed, and conceived, with horrible dubbing that it takes on an air of the absurd.

Sinbad and the seven seas slot machine