if you ever wonder what movie you should be watch in high resolution technology this one should be on top pf the list . you want to see the detail on the bronze minotaur ( call minaton here ) the intricate pattern on the thousand of fabric and and precious jewel and the different eye lash layer on evil queen zenobia and the expanse of ultra blue sea . the third of ray harryhausen sinbad film have apparently get a bad rap over the year and which i can not understand . it may be for beverly cross script and some of the performance and notably patrick wayne a sinbad and which i happen to think be totally fine and entertaining and but may not be perceive a such for those search for dramatic acting . this rap should be disregard a it be not only largely unfair and but inadequate in note the entertain value of this movie . no doubt it could have be well and but a an exciting adventure it be more than good and thanks to a strong cast and ray harryhausen excellent animation . the story be about kassim and the caliph of baghdad and who mysteriously disappear at the very moment of his coronation . sinbad and arrive in baghdad both to sell his merchandise cargo and and also to see again his love interest and the caliph sister play by a luscious and very young jane seymour . he be draw into a trap and by rafi and a dark handsome prince play by kurt christian set in a magnificent tent and which include belly dancing entertainment . his mother and the evil dowager queen zenobia and play margaret whiting and who be more than familiar with the black art be behind this plan and all others and a we know just by look at him and that rafi have no brain or sense of direction . barely escape an attack by three sword wield fire skeletal creature and sinbad find kassim sister and a baboon and which be actually prince kassim and a transform by the magic of queen zenobia so her own son could be caliph . at this very point we should wonder if this evil woman be not actually just career orient . in new york she would have be direct a real estate emporium or huge corporate conglomerate and maybe both and where rafi could have just look good in the publicity ad a she rule ruthlessly while yet in time she would have do the charity ball and she would have even sponsor some cultural cause and eventually she would have be perceive a a pillar of society . it all a matter of perception and historical placement and above all location and location and location . in order to break zenobia spell on kassim and sinbad enlists an adequately wise and age wizard and master malanthius and his sexy daughter and the hyper blond and hypnotize look dione ( taryn power ) and who also have some of the most vapid dialog in the movie . they meet in the ancient city of petra and where the wizard live and and the scene of arrival and and see the city through a rock be totally rewarding a a reason to see the whole film and it be so well do and awesome . all have to set sail for hyperborea and a land at the north pole magically immune to the polar region snow . however and zenobia and rafi be follow . zenobia have actually have a confrontation scene by sinbad ship when she arrive in a feathered and veiled litter and argue with the silly vizier who be try to look his best in a day wear saffron and gold ensemble that be strike for the pheasant feather adornment of his turban that look like the whole bird be alive and and in heat . zenobia have decide to enlist help too . she will be aid by a mechanical beast and a bull head robot create by zenobia and and animate with a golden heart and baptize with the name minaton and close enough to the ancient minotaur of the labyrinth story . although great look a an accessory he be just an elaborate rowing machine in their metalized ship that look more like an early submarine . the first thing they do be crush the spy that the vizier have set to watch their move and against a rock a they start on the pursuit and an appropriately delightful moment of evil indulgence . the best part of the movie be zenobia transformation into a seagull so she can leave her ship and spy on sinbad in his . she take a potion and have a series of very erotic spasm in her elaborate bedchamber and and suddenly she be the bird . her flight be not a lucky and once arrive and she transform into a miniature version of herself and be unfortunately discover by the baboon and who wreck her plan and only after much difficulty she manage to change back to the seagull and escape and but there be not enough potion leave when she turn into herself represent she be leave with a huge foot of a seagull attach to her leg instead of her human foot and and will stomp her way through the rest of the film . this film feature quite a bit of character animation by harryhausen . the baboon kassim look totally real playing chess and most of all in his dramatic scene when he see himself in a mirror and and despair over his change . trog and a prehistoric giant who be as frighten of u a we of him and a malanthius sweetly remark and be a direct ancestor of shrek and and look frighten yet endear . kassim and dione manage to befriend trog and and when kassim be finally liberate of zenobia spell and we feel genuine regret a trog be kill by zenobia and again transformed and this time a smilodon the tiger of the snow . this battle be unusually gruesome and and absurd and yet an exciting delight to watch a both her and sinbad be endanger by fall ice spear . the happy end in the coronation of kassim a caliph allow u to admire in detail the jewelled splendor of his court and the plasticized formica of the ring and the unique and early zircon and other stone be all mystifying and specially when throw together with pearl and feather .