I honestly think you have to watch them from start to end as movies to truly understand how much of a failure they are.
You know, now that I think about it, there’s something I didn’t take into consideration: that the acting is of course different in the Italian versions (the ones I watched), because they were dubbed. As far as I understand, one of the main things the PT did wrong was the acting, but this problem is completely nonexistent in our versions because our dubbing was directed by professionals, at the point that the infamous “sand” line has been slightly changed and improved in Italian, making it kind of a beautiful and romantic thing to say. So maybe that’s why I consider the PT slightly better than you do.