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Arabian Adventure (1979)
5 out of 6 people found the following comment useful :-
Nice movie, 28 June 2005
Author: an0nym1985 from Germany
*** This comment may contain spoilers ***
Director Kevin Connor shot a nice movie for 4.000.000 US$: Arabian Adventure. If one keeps in mind that this film was produced a long time before CGI and for such a "low" budget (if one compares is with other ones), one could say that this film is really successful and a great fun to watch.
The story is a simple fairy of Arabic nights and one night. A young hero loves the attractive daughter of a bad magician. To marry this young lady he has to find a talisman and bring it to the father of this princess. Some of his friends help him to do this job, but one of this "helpers" is a traitor. After a long journey, a lot of dangers and fights he marries his princes and everybody is happy ...
The actors aren't that good, many of them haven't a lot of experience and in those days the stunts were not as successful as they are today. But all in all they were OK.
If the team had the technical possibilities of today, the special effects would have been quiet good. But for those days, they were really successful.
The set-design and the clothes were really very good. One can't say anything against them.
I highly recommend this film to all fairy fans. The film keeps what the title promises, it's a real Arabian Adventure.
6 out of 8 people found the following comment useful :-
well......, 30 November 2000
Author: alligator from uk
I LOVE THIS MOVIE!!!...Yet I haven't been able to find a copy of it for years.. As a child I watched this movie constantly, esp' due to my love of LEE..And it has remained as a special movie to me. It seemed to be one of those movies back then, that was one of the newer 'style' movies in the late 70's (effects and stuff)..so back then i just loved it..It's a true fantasy!! I think most children would absolutly love this film..though if i saw it now, i'd proberly laugh at the effects! But no one i've met has ever heard of it..I think it's a hidden gem..hopefully not lost forever!!!
1 out of 1 people found the following comment useful :-
Solid children's film., 7 April 2008
Author: Blueghost from the San Francisco Bay Area
I saw this many years ago when it was first released, and though I thought the SFX were dated even for its time, I still enjoyed the film as a whole. The score was above average for a film like this, and the acting was respectably comic for the genre; kids'-adventure.
Some familiar faces make their appearance; Ratzenbergger (Cliff from "Cheers"), legend Christopher Lee, Mickey Rooney, Emma Sams and more, adding an amusing and delightful bit of levity to the film.
All in all it's an okay film for kids, but today's young ones may get somewhat impatient with some dated effects--notably some of the process shots and miniature work.
Still, if I had a copy on DVD I'd most certainly add it to my collection. It's worth taking a look at with your kids on a rainy afternoon or lazy Sunday.
Enjoy :-)
2 out of 10 people found the following comment useful :-
what a pile of Pooh, 17 February 2005
Author: shanee cowland (shanee25sdc@yahoo.com) from United Kingdom
this film is pathetic the acting (if you could call it that is cardboard and predictable) the plot again is predictable and so clichéd (with no real attempt to even disguise the cliché). I didn't know that thieves had cockney accents in 'arabia'. what makes it even worst is that all the actors are supposed to be Arab but just have lots of fake tan on. it looks like everything from every fantasy and storybook has been thrown into a bag and pulled out in some random order. the story doesn't seem to focus on one magic thing to the next this is too dull a film to mention in fact i couldn't get through the whole thing without giving up and deciding that this is a wholesale waste of my time. i was very surprised to see that this film had been made in 1979. i mean, star wars had been made by then, Indiana Jones wasn't far off. jaws had been made and yet the effects in this film are pathetic. i could not justify giving this film any more than a one as a rating.
5 out of 27 people found the following comment useful :-
TRAGIC CARPET RIDE!, 13 January 2000
Author: ALAN MOUNT from CARDIFF,WALES
There is nothing like a good Arabian Nights fantasy adventure movie and this is nothing like a good one.This is a waste of film,money and time and they couldn't even think of a decent title;if these guys had made a western they would have probably called it "COWBOY STORY".....Why not call this trash "CALIPH FINDS ANDY HARDY" and have done with it?
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