Full disclosure from the start: this is, for the most part, not a good film – at least, not if you’re over the age of eleven. I was that age when the movie came out, several weeks after a little number called STAR WARS appeared. I desperately wanted to see STAR WARS, without knowing anything more than what I had seen in the brief commercials at the time (ahh, the days before the Interwebs) but my father, during one of his times when he wanted to prove he was a real Dad, preferred to see a Sinbad movie, so we went to this one. By the time I got to see STAR WARS, the lines were already beginning to go around the block…
However, for all its flaws, I’m discussing it here, partly because when you reach my age, nostalgia grips you like that inexplicable neck ache, partly because I’m…
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