Please let the next one be John Carter. Should've been called John Carter of Mars. 🙏

Wait, wait, wait, wait! You mean to tell me the Prince of Persia movie was around the same time as SHREK FOREVER AFTER!? I legit believed Shrek Forever After was like 5 years later!

This movie completely ignored the original plot. Sands of time is a critically acclaimed game and is easily one of the best games made by Ubisoft. Had the makers stuck with the original plot, the movie would have done well and would have given Disney the opportunity to make additional sequels with Warrior Within and Two Thrones.

Never watched the movie, but man, this made for some great lego sets

Disney failures : a combination of failing to promote good movies (John Carter) while promoting the F out of bad movies (Pirates 4-5)

As a kid, I loved this movie. I made my parents take me to the cinema three times just for it. I had the comic book, too (back then, Disney used to make comic books that followed the exact same story of their movies, I believe Pirates had a comic also). I haven't watched it since and am afraid to because, honestly, the editing does feel pretty jarring from the few clips you've showed and I don't really remember the plot all that much, but this movie definitely made kid-me very happy

Jake Gyllenhaal wouldn't look out of place as a local in modern-day Iran

I got one of the LEGO sets based on this movie as a kid, but to this day I've never seen it lol

Disney’s next failed next big thing is just literally everything

Forgotten failure? Probably because nobody who saw it thought it was.

Finally the Prince of Persia 🙏

A great series for younger viewers to look back. Also make sense why the mouse relies so much on their cinematic universe, unwilling to let it rest. Fail startups can be harsh.

The choices made in this movie certainly don't age well, and Jake Gyllenhaal was badly miscast - not only because he's not in any way Middle-Eastern looking, but he's literally the 'only' American actor between British actors/actresses there. There was even an interview about how he had to fake British accent just to match with the rest of the cast.

You're doing TRON Legacy right?!

I liked this movie...

Two things I cared about with this movie, one being Harry Gregson Williams' great score, and the other being the sound for when the sands of time are triggered. Gave my subwoofer a good workout.

Just discovered your channel and the series. It’s a lot of fun. Looking forward to what you’ll do next. I’m especially fond of the parts where you give context about the history of the movie’s release. Things like strikes or other movies competing with it! Well done.

Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time is an underrated Disney movie from Mike Newell. It’s no Pirates Of The Caribbean but it’s fun and has good action sequences. Jake Gyllenhaal does a good job as Dastan and Gemma Arterton is hot as Princess Tamina and she does good in the role. The score is good and the action sequences are well choreographed. I think it deserves more appreciation it’s flawed but fun

I love this series. Keep it up these are some of my favorite film review videos!

What's funny is that I've seen all of Disney's failed next big thing movie's except for Prince of Persia....I'll probably forget about it in a week from now, I know that's what Disney wants me to do

"Yes, Chidi, we've all seen The Time Knife"

The only two things or should I say.. Characters I really appreciate in this film is Nizam and Amar. Ben Kingsley looked the part, acted it well and overall was just the best actor possible for the slimy manipulative villain in the film. And Alfred Molina was just a ton of fun to watch. The rest of it was boring, mummy returns type tripe that wasn’t all that enjoyable.

Good job at hitting a bit of a video topic goldmine! Love these vids! Make one on when they tried to remake wizard of oz world with James Franco

I can not wait for John Carter 😂 I actually really like that movie too so I’m curious to see what you have to say

Lego sets were sick tho that's the only reason I remember Prince of Persia

I loved this movie! It introduced me to jake gyllenhaal ❤

Prince of Persia gets even worse when you compare it to the games and realise how much more bland it comes out after the comparisonon

Great videos. Loving the series!

I get most of the problems , but the miscasting isn't that big of a deal , not all middle eastern people look the same , as for iranians (persians) they look very similar to greeks and you could easily find people similar looking to jake gyllenhaal amongst them

Keep it up love your videos !!

May 28th is my birthday. They were doing it for me ❤

Finally caught one of these early! But come on, stop teasing us with the snippets in the intro - I'm waiting from my boy from Marsss~

I was a 12 year old kid who just started getting addicted to video games when this movie came out( I'd say the perfect target audience, no?) and it completely floored me. I thought about it for days. Sure, in retrospect it's not very good, but it hit the mark where it needed to. According to imdb, the box office profits weren't even that bad. It's just that crazy , unexplained budget that was the main problem.

I think you should make FAILURE TO LAUNCH - VIDEO GAME ADAPTIONS, gosh knows we got a lot of that

It’s a video game that has been around since the 80s, but I have never seen anyone play it.

I saw this movie in theatres as a kid, and I remember coming out of it feeling really underwhelmed, and thinking "huh I actually didn't really enjoy that movie. Is that a Thing that can happen?"

I remember enjoying the movie as a kid and rewatched it about a year ago - it still was enjoyable, though not fantastic. I definitely see where someone is coming from for not enjoying it - some ofthe editing was questionable, especially when it comes to the action scenes. From what I can remember, the games didn't have a lot of slower moments either - though the movie could have used more.

I didn't like it because it was a bad adaptation of the source material. The game Sands of Time. Also because of the other reason you mentioned. But they went so much away from the core story of the game which is sad. I love the time trilogy. You should play the game it's a bit outdated by today's standards but it is a good 2000s gaming classic

I absolutely loved this film. Ive watched it so many times and it never gets old. Both central characters made this film and i really enjoyed the story.

I remember this movie fondly, so I was surprised to see it in this series. The video explained well why it was a flop, but I didn't get why it was so hated by critics. The video barely touched on the plot and characters

I love this movie need to rewatch it soon

Such a good series of videos Isenhart's doing.

Gods, this movie is my guilty pleasure. I had the most massive crush on both Jake Gyllenhaal and Gemma Arterton at that time, and ugh, I ate this up! Still love this movie

I would like to see more recent stuff in this series like Lightyear and Willow which were meant to be a Next Big Thing

Hope to see sorcerers apprentice soon. Saw it with my mom in theaters as a kid and thought it was fun. Curious about its history

This movie was not a flop to me, I was obsessed with it for a few months.

I didn’t know Jake Gyllenhaal was Persian.

I’ve never even heard of it. Easy to see why!

When I was a kid, my cousin and I absolutely loved the prince of persia games (especially the two thrones, we played that game religiously) so when I was eleven and saw this movie for the first time I absolutely loved it Then I grew up and saw the issues it has and saw its issues and I'm so disappointed to see how it all turned out. The movies you've covered has so much potential, but hollywood happened

Please do an episode on these flops: Conan the Barbarian (2011) A Wrinkle in Time (2018) Cutthroat Island (1995) 13th Warrior (1999)

I loved this movie and I was so sad it never had a sequel because if I remember correctly, there was a monster that goes after the prince for messing with time. Great sequel material.

I liked this movie, went twice to watch it and got the dvd. I have a habit of liking bad movies. I liked John Carter too😢.

Okay, overall I agree, but... Mortal Kombat and Tomb Raider both -did- do well, honestly. They captured the vibes of their respective franchises, were dripping with 90s-cool energy, and actually merited sequels. There are far more apt, genuinely terrible videogame movies to point to, like Alone in the Dark, House of the Dead, Far Cry, or the countless Bloodrayne and Dungeon Siege movies.

Pretty much any live action film Disney made between the Pirates movies and the purchase of Marvel and Lucasfilm fits into this category.

When I divorce this from its source material, I can enjoy this as a random tale from 1001 Arabian Nights.

The lazy and white wash casting of Gyllenhal immediately signaled the lack of effort put into making the film. Also, recovering from the '08 crash- people were more weary of wasting their money. Just like they are today with all the low mental effort Marvel movies.

Didn't really help that Ubisoft's games already told the whole story of that particular prince and a completely new oe (the pirate look-a-like one) was introduced in 2008's reboot.

You know in the olden days these flops would be played forever on 80s HBO and TBS. Building a somewhat fan based.

I guess I might be the only person who liked John Carter, but I also liked the Golden Voyage of Sinbad, Sinbad, and the eye of the tiger, the 7th voyage of sinbad, Jason and the Argonauts, the Prince of Persia, Charles Schneer etc.

The legos were dope at least.

So this movie out of the "Disney failed next big thing" series is probably my second favorite losing out to John Carter, which sounds a bit weird cause I have had a HEAVY Alfred Molina Bias ever since I watched the Hoax one time completely by accident cause it came on after another movie I had playing which I cannot remember. But I do love this film, maybe one of the few that do, I enjoy the references to the games ( the sands/dagger) and the Parkour), I enjoyed the story and characters which I am pretty sure are not in the games. I waited a while to leave this comment cause I really wanted to think about this video and how you felt about it and it made me really think, no matter how much I like parkour action and stuff some of my favorite moments in the film (that is not every gleaming second Alfred Molina is on screen) are in fact the slow parts, the part where Dastan and Tamina are in a tent riding out a sand storm exchanging information and trying to figure stuff out, the war counsel meeting at the beginning of the movie where they are deciding whether to attack Alamut or not where if you are a repeat watcher you may notice the tiniest hint of who the baddy is from this scene, which I find interesting, the one scene where Garsiv stops charging and yelling for 2 seconds to actually have an actual sort lived conversation, I could go on but this comment will already be too long but yeah I like a lot of the slow scenes. I don't wanna go too deep into it but as far as Jake Gyllenhaal goes I can't really harbor any ill will towards him for doing this movie, make up and wardrobe did their thing and he definitely looked like the game character, yeah white washing is always weird but if I chose to be made at him I'd have to be mad at like 98% of the damn cast, like.. I think almost EVERYONE in this movie is British or English... like what's going on here, I can't think of one actor off the top of my head that I looked up and had any sort of middle eastern roots, if I missed one someone please tell me, I need to know. All in all I'm just not the critical movie watcher, I just love watching movies and some of my favorites are just big time bombs, the Prince of Persia has the silliest pacing, all the silly questionable decisions, why didn't Dastan try to get the robe off the king at all? cause the writers need him to be framed for his murder, oh sorry silly me. Story has little in common with the games other than the sands of time and the dagger, the cuts are ridiculous. Oh and my favorite part, Seso's signature google maps pin point knife throw out the temple tower right into a skinny tree right by the good guys... which to be honest leads into my favorite call back of the movie mainly cause I love Seso and Sheik Amar's whole dynamic. the movie has flaws all around but despite all that It still hold a little special place in my heart right next to John Carter. Sorry this comment was so damn long, I had so much I wanted to say about this movie flaws and all, which is a big step up from my one line John Carter comment, probably cause I don't think John Carter needs any more, it was a joy to see how many people flocked to that video same as me and voiced their love and admiration for that film, I just don't think I can say the same for Prince of Persia.

Wild they released this to compete w Shrek Ever After

Imagine if it did have a sequel but it was a crossover with Pirates of the Caribbean

Your other videos deserve views too!

Great video man. I was a big fan of POP games growing up. Idk abt everyone else but this movie just feels right in hindi. I loved the movie and was satisfied watching it in hindi dub. But I'm disappointed with the games tho.. they just ruined it every part they made after game of thrones.

Eventually prince of Persia would become assassins creeed

Bro when are you gonna do john carter...and tron

I mean.. this and lone ranger did spawn some pretty dope lego sets. Probably the only good thing that came out of those movies.

My Favorite movies all time❤

BRUH YOU JUST UNLOCKED A FORGOTTEN MEMORY!

So weird I love prince of Persia, I love Scorsers Apprentis and John Carter is one of my all time favs lol.. got board and stop watching both pirates of carribean, Harry Potter

The first time I watched it, I actually hated it. I thought the dagger was a cool concept but the romance between the protagonists (which is a big part of the plot) was just too bad. However with time, for some reason here in Italy they used to broadcast it almost ever Christmas lol, I started to enjoy it more. The romance is still the weakest part but it has some cool action sequences and, like I said, the dagger is such a cool idea! I wish they had used it more. Last year I finally played the game and I was surprised fans were sad it didn't follow the game more since it doesn't really have that much story. Just an excuse for the gameplay. I think the did an excellent job in adapting it into a movie.

There’s a massive hoodoo over video game films and I’m not sure why. They have a built in audience, for a start. But they also have an established cinematic world. It should be incredibly straightforward. But for some reason producers and directors decide to complete forget that and try to create something else. I can only assume they’ve never played video games or are trying to impress their children or something. Hopefully we’re far enough into the 21st century that people making films now actually played the games and have a love for them when they’re recreating them as films. I hold out a very shallow hope, but I suppose it’s possible

6:37 . That's my birthday

But... Jake Gyllenhaal does look accurate to the video games. It's as stupid as people crying about Jonny Depp not being a real pirate to me.

Price of persia movie was awesome. I loved it

Pirates was genuinely good and original, all of these other failed franchises they tried to launch they just copy/pasted what they did with people that did not care about the projects. You could see it in the old interviews of the cast and crew. Their laughs, interest in what each other are saying etc are fake in these failed Pirates clones.

This series is great.

I honestly loved Prince of Persia when I watched it

Jake Gyllenhaal will never have a better movie than Bubble Boy.

Please JUNGLE CRUISE ❤

I still like this movie greatly. I Watched it in 2023 after years of not doing so and I catched some flaws I didn’t notice before. Nonetheless I still enjoyed very much 😊

I didn't like this movie, and it's exactly the type of movie i like. As a kid i was obsessed with a Sinbad movie I had on VHS. This could have been an updated version.

U do need to do john carter. Very disappointed it did do well. It just seems like they tried a lot more serious concepts that need higher ratings

I liked prince of Persia

I like this one. It's not a great adaptation of the Sands of Time, but it's a fun enough film on its own (though Jake was indeed miscast... he's decent enough to be engaging, but it would have been great to have a real Persian descendant in the role... if they were competent and not just cast for diversity's sake). Weirdly, I think a more faithful adaptation would have been worse, though, as they would have tried harder to lean into the Warrior Within and Two Thrones, which were gross missteps in their own way. There's no way that Disney would have adapted those faithfully, veering hard into R rated territory.

I watch this movie while I was in Cairo and fall asleep sleep 😂😂😂

Finally a video on the movie that I thought and still think could produce 1 or 2 more movies. But below are my thoughts 1. Budget was ridiculous no movie is worth more than 120 million you need to make money. 2. Found out that white Guys could live around that area (this is only according to the information I found). 3. Marketing was very bad " he may be reclous" I remember from the ads making him look like a cocky punk. Not good 4. Forget toys start a franchise first than add toys later. 5. Definitely could have two more movies. First one is two thrones have Destin go on a journey to defeat an evil Prince who can use the sand of time. Who has a sand army? Combine The mummy with two thrones and you have a good film. Then the other one would be an adaption of the forgotten sands. So you have two more movies and more money in your bank 6 lastly, it's very very sad that this series never got more because if you cut down the budget and focus more on story instead of spectacle you could produce some good products here. I would definitely greenlit One more film and see how it does if it was me. But great video dude. Excellent job

Who cares how much money the producers made on this movie?! If a lot of people went to see the movie, that's a success, period.

I thought this movie was fun as a kid. Pretty sure its not as good as i remember since I havent watched it since I was a kid. Btw, if anyone wants to know Jordan Melchners personal version of this movie, there is a graphic novel he wrote that tells a story based on the games. Its actually quite dark and not disney approved at all. Give it a shot.

Idk, i actually enjoyed this film....i find it to be a guilty pleasure

depends on where in Persia it takes place but most of it is not in the Middle East ftr

I like both

I always find Jerry Bruckheimer’s movies he’s involved with interesting, even the terrible movies he’s produced like Kangaroo Jack, Pearl Harbor, and G-Force, Gemini Man, & The Lone Ranger there’s something fascinating about them you can’t turn away from. And at least you remember them unlike Disney’s Wish for better or worse.

I was very excited for this movie. I love the sands of time video game trilogy. This movie was very disappointing.

Somehow it's the only Movie with Jake Gyllenhaal that I like. I guess I am just not smart enough.

I won't say $100,000 bucks profit is a loss tho😅

I should give this movie another shot. I don't recall it being offensively awful or anything.

made a movie about prince of persia sands of time... use the time dagger 2 times....FACTS

Not forgotten. It's one of my favourites of all time and I revisit it regularly. Haven't played the games. There is something magical about this film.