I was amazed rewatching this to see how middle ages a lot of the design was, the atoll had towers like castles, the woman, whatever her name was had a bodice and dress on, you had a crazy "wizard" making his flying machine, etc...

I loved the stunt show, yeah, I was amazed how well it replicated what was in the movie.  And of course, at the show you had the people with buckets throwing water on the audience, it was all kinds of fun.

I remember after having a discussion with a friend of mine about how they might remake the movie, I kept thinking they should push the genetic engineering story so there's mutants all over the place, you have a big action piece in the floating lab where they make "new" people, throw some more pirate swashbuckling in there...