I just saw it for the first time.
It was quite fun, and as a kids movie it was much, much better then the recent robotic/high tech/ computer graphic junk.
Sandokan's sword was hilarious: a 19th century European idea of a dark and exotic "scimitar" The tiger hunts with Kukri and Kris were also very funny; never thought the task was so easy: just jump and slice the beast in half.
Sir James Brooke was an epithome of British evil, even though in life he was a crusading anti-pirate Christian fanatic whose fighting spirit and death wish were, no doubt, exaggerated by a wound he suffered in India and that left him without a .... (any children around?).. weenie.
Sandokan, for all his fame as a Tiger of Malaysia, is in fact, a sorry excuse for a pirate: he never failed to make the worst tactical decision and got beaten soundly time and time again. The supposedly impregnable island of Mompracem was taken by a small band of barefoot schliemils who were obligingly dropping dead every time Sandokan's Portugese sidekick Yanez fired his short-barrel revolver without even bothering to aim in any direction.
With all that, my DVD had 6 episodes (ending with an untimely demise of Sandokan's love) and his escape to wreck further havoc on the East India Company. Are there any more episodes? I got hooked
