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Arabian Nights: Sinbad's Adventures · review

★
Top reader Mar 4, 2021 · 2 min read
↓ Not recommended
4 /10

i only managed to find the dub for this one. Sindbad's adventures was a much needed change of pace from the same old character designs TOEI was employing - direct imitation of Disney movies of the time with much poorer production value and quality, unfortunately. You even see some experimentalism make a return here, especially with how some effects for the ocean and the treasure were animated using sand. Unfortunately, the characters continue to remain paper thin and uninteresting. while their designs are quite a detailed improvement from the paper motion humans in the previous TOEI doga films, there is little depth to them. The moviescontinue to feel like a stitched together tapestry of disparate scenes that are unrelated to each other, rather than fostering a single contiguous narrative. This unfortunate feature continues to undermine the potential of these early age films and the narrative limitations of the artists working in the space at the time.

Once again, there are some scenes that would breach the realms of appearing psychedelic, almost approaching the brink of horror - only to pull back into the familiar territory of a figurative children's playground of a perfect world of idealism and adventure. The movie, like others of its ilk often threatens to break out of the mold created for it by its meta realities like its audiences contrasting with the artistic frustration of the creative team.

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