Bad Movie Review: Masters of the Universe

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A battle fought in the stars, now... comes to Earth. We have the power to review the film that killed Cannon Films. Masters of the Universe (1987)
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Summary: On the planet Eternia, Skeletor and his dark army overthrow the Sorceress of Castle Grayskull expecting to acquire her power. He-Man, his old friend Duncan "Man-at-Arms" and his daughter Teela are attacked by Skeletor's soldiers and they defeat them. They also rescue their prisoner, the inventor and locksmith Gwildor. He explains that he was lured by Evil-Lyn that used his invention the Cosmic Key to open the gates and seize the Castle Grayskull. He-Man and his friends retrieve the prototype of the Cosmic Key trying to release the Sorcereress but they are defeated by Skeletor and his army and Gwildor uses his key to open and portal for them to flee. They come to Earth but lose the key. Meanwhile, Julie Winston, who grieves the loss of her parents in a plane crash, and her boyfriend Kevin Corrigan find and activate the key, believing it is a foreign musical instrument. On Eternia, Evil-Lyn locates the Cosmic Key and Skeletor sends her with a group of mercenaries and soldiers to vanquish He-Han and his friends and bring the key back. Will they succeed?
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Matthew Scrivens, Cecelie, James Herington, Jonathan Harrison, Darren Le Noble, Melanie Atherton Allen, Thorbjorn Helstrom, Pvt_Unicorn_Parts, Scott Nesmith, Lisa Kuta, Normand Richardson, Richard Sadler, John Hepp, Thom MacIntyre, Chantelle Corey, John L., Logistical Nightmare, Joseph Hines, Stephen Crane, Connor Brennan, Christopher Eckart, Anthony Strocks, John S. Savage, Dave Church, You Don't Get to Know, Ford, Jasmine Shafer, Allan Liska, Rachemus, Heroes Horrors and Cats, Ben Simpson, Chris Weakley, Colleen Crouch, steve scibelli, Michael and Heather Bailes, Gappasaurus, Joe Niedbala, Christie Bryden, Dan D Doty, Joseph Dougherty, Chris Hewson, Hidden Trail Video, goddessoftransitory, David H. Adler,
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Written and presented by Robin Bailes @robinbailes
Directed and Edited by Graham Trelfer
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@DarkCornersReviews 3 жыл бұрын

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@emandahr 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the mention

@NinjaNezumi 3 жыл бұрын

This film is awesome :D

@majingojira 3 жыл бұрын

That Peter Cushing Award gag has so much potential in it! I want to see it appear again when warranted.

@MrLorenzovanmatterho 3 жыл бұрын

Meg Foster makes everything she appears in better.

@flora71146 3 жыл бұрын

So the actress who played the sorceress played Courtney Cox’s Mom on “Friends”. That’s too funny!

@cedricmaclobster2324 3 жыл бұрын

Why do I hear her say "We might still have some money left, if your father hadn't thought it was a good idea to try sell ice over the Internet" in my head now? Maybe that's what got Cannon bankrupt... :-P

@davidhanson4909 3 жыл бұрын

I always thought it was funny that they used a lot of prosthetics to turn Frank Langella into Jack Palance.

@DDlambchop43 Жыл бұрын

please, Palance couldn't hold a candle to him.

@MotiviqueStudio 3 жыл бұрын

Horrible as that film was, I still love Langella's Skeletor, right down to his golden armor at the end.

@corvus1970 3 жыл бұрын

Langella (with some help by Meg Foster) gives viewers a reason to bother watching at all, much as Raul Julia (and Ming Na) would do for "Street Fighter" seven years later.

@JonMarkDeane 3 жыл бұрын

I fundamentally know this film is bad and I absolutely love it.

@wind-upboy939 2 жыл бұрын

Yep, I feel the same.

@grapeshot 3 жыл бұрын

You think of 80s cheese you think of Cannon. Skeletor was the only redeeming thing about this movie. When Dolph Lundgren said he had the power I just shook my head.🤦🏿‍♂️🤦🏿‍♂️🤦🏿‍♂️

@davidromeroblaya7920 3 жыл бұрын

Skeletor troops commited a great mistake: bring laser rifles into a shotgun battle.

@dtdimeflicks6708 3 жыл бұрын

Langella has said that Skelator is his favorite role he's ever played. He's definitely having fun, which in turn makes every scene with him fun to watch.

@ritawing1064 3 жыл бұрын

Often the case, isn't it?

@nedludd7622 3 жыл бұрын

He had the advantage that he didn't have show his face so no one could identify him.

@dtdimeflicks6708 3 жыл бұрын

@@nedludd7622 he has a medical condition that makes the pupils in his eyes rapidly move from side to side, so people can point him out just by noticing that.

@matthewh.9544 3 жыл бұрын

He was probably drunk when he said it, or on drugs... 🙄

@dtdimeflicks6708 3 жыл бұрын

@@matthewh.9544 Or maybe he's one of those actors who likes to let loose and ham it up when given the opportunity. It's not uncommon. Just look at the guest stars on the Adam West Batman. Actors would clamor to get a spot on there just to have a good time.

@stephenperry4197 3 жыл бұрын

"What other big screen adaptations have let you down." Land of the Lost fans may have a thing or two to say on the subject.

@ericjanssen394 3 жыл бұрын

Scooby-Doo fans also want a bit of payback on Warner.

@lorddevilfish5868 3 жыл бұрын

Avatar the Last Airbender fan requiring therapy for the past 11 years

@destho4308 3 жыл бұрын

Dragonball Evolution has that face palm effect for series fans.

@kaykutcher2103 3 жыл бұрын

The Hobbit fans are still in a coma.

@ericjanssen394 3 жыл бұрын

Fantasy Island as a HORROR film?? 🤦

@BlackburnBigdragon 3 жыл бұрын

Basically, this movie was, "We don't have the budget to make the sets for He-Man World, so we had to bring everyone to L.A.

@ajivins1 3 жыл бұрын

Worse than Detroit?

@Bigbadwhitecracker 3 жыл бұрын

Kind of like forcing everyone to shop at Walmart

@zacharyjochumsen9677 10 ай бұрын

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@MrBartleby451 3 жыл бұрын

Evil-Lyn is hot in any universe.

@bradencampbell464 3 жыл бұрын

Meg Foster was fantastic in this.

@gregghill2059 3 жыл бұрын

@@bradencampbell464 Agreed.

@MrBartleby451 3 жыл бұрын

@@bradencampbell464 As always.

@davidhanson4909 3 жыл бұрын

Christopher Plummer deserves a Peter Cushing Lifetime Achievement Award. No matter how bad the movie (Starcrash, for instance), the man was all in.

@richmcgee434 3 жыл бұрын

You ain't kidding. Best Line Delivery In the History of Filmdom: "Imperial battleship! Halt...the flow of time!" kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nJ1nnpyJyrObhmw.html

@barbarjinxed 3 жыл бұрын

I went to the cinema to see this during Christmas 1987 and I knew it wasn't great then, but it is so nostalgic, I absolutely love it. A truly, a so bad it's good film.

@originaluddite 3 жыл бұрын

"It's Earth, it's always Earth"... What I've thought many times while watching the revived series of Dr Who.

@Mikey_Clarkie 3 жыл бұрын

Space is expensive!! They can't afford enough tinfoil for costumes.

@originaluddite 3 жыл бұрын

And yet the old, tinfoil-dependent version of the show was less Earth centred than the newer one, except for when the Doctor was actually exiled here. :)

@christalbot210 Жыл бұрын

That or whenever _Star Trek_ goes back in time. The only time they went back in time and NOT go to Earth, was in the Animated series when Spock goes to the time of his youth on Vulcan.

@LUISPRIME 3 жыл бұрын

Funny. He-Man's mom, Queen Merlena, is from Earth and He-Man never mentions this in the movie. Not even to Man-At-Arms. I gotta admit I did like parts that took place Eternia. Once on Earth I really lost interest in the film.

@willmistretta 3 жыл бұрын

Exactly. Granted, every fantasy movie that goes to Earth does it for budgetary reasons, but here they could have at least made it seem less random by pointing out that He-Man's half earthling. Frustrating.

@mikurtis1767 3 жыл бұрын

Something tells me the writers weren't watching the cartoon and were thinking, "Oh, kids won't care..."

@mikurtis1767 3 жыл бұрын

@Wasp Factory I dunno. I seem to recall I was the only person in my group of friends who liked the movie. Everyone else I knew was like, "it isn't like the cartoon! It sucked!!!" Now of course, in hindsight ... my liking the movie at that time could be taken as a sign if just poor taste all around. But that's another story

@douglasphillips5870 2 жыл бұрын

I thought this movie came out before Queen Merlena's back story, but I could be wrong

@KasumiKenshirou 2 жыл бұрын

There was apparently an earlier draft of the script that spent more time on Eternia and also revealed that He-Man's mother was from Earth.

@nedludd7622 3 жыл бұрын

Courteney Cox looks lovely. She and Christine Pickles then descended into "Friends", though obviously the money was thousands of times better.

@ferociousgumby 3 жыл бұрын

PLEASE do the Hercules movie (Hercules in New York, 1969) with a then-unknown Arnold Schwarzenegger! It had to be dubbed because his accent was so thick, but the original, unintelligible version is much better.

@talk2mrg 3 жыл бұрын

Billy Barty at his best.

@ryandtibbetts2962 3 жыл бұрын

Aren't you forgetting his role as Sigmund in Sigmund and the Sea Monsters? 🤪🤣

@speedygonzales378 3 жыл бұрын

Gwildor is what ed sheeran will look like in 50 years.

@thewanderingfool4435 2 жыл бұрын

As far as i'm concerned this comment wins the internet. LMFAO

@kirkk6920 2 жыл бұрын

I thought it was Ed Sheeran now, as is, present day, which still makes you correct.

@Facade953 3 жыл бұрын

Meg Foster was magnificent as Hera in Hercules: The Legendary Journeys!😀

@homelesshannah50 3 жыл бұрын

Her creepy eyes help when she's playing a bad guy

@UncleFeedle 2 жыл бұрын

I've lost count of the number of fantasy films that are set on Earth to save money - He-Man, Smurfs, Sonic the Hedgehog, etc. The formula is ALWAYS the same: 1. Character lives on fantasy world. 2. Character travels through some kind of portal or device. 3. Character arrives on Earth (usually LA, New York or Vancouver). 4. Teams up with some locals. 5. High-jinks as the character tries to make sense of this weird world. Fart jokes. Pop-culture references. 6. Stuff happens - beats the bad guys, etc. 7. Character returns home.

@ClydeRowing Жыл бұрын

This almost describes Terminator

@heinrichku6023 3 жыл бұрын

There are lots of love in the design and the costumes, the throne-room looks awesome. As someone already mentioned, lots of Jack-Kirby-inspiration here, they even had Moebius doing some sketches. Yes, it's not a good movie, but maybe a more experienced director could have made a difference here.

@donaldlamkin1305 3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely awesome shirt, Robin!

@ashleys9397 3 жыл бұрын

It is.

@Duragizer8775 3 жыл бұрын

Lame movie, and I say that as someone who isn't a fan of the '80s cartoon. But Frank Langella & Meg Foster are incredible; they make it watchable.

@oscarruorochmolinacansino5907 3 жыл бұрын

You take that back! Masters of the Universe is a masterpiece. Just not a good He-Man one. It had great New Gods vibes. Frank Langella was magnificent as Skeletor.

@DarrenWilson-bs8vq 11 ай бұрын

Where is ORCO

@darkangel076 2 жыл бұрын

No arguments that Meg Foster managed to get a great performance out of indifferent (at best) materials, but Langella is hammy fun and even Cox did her job by successfully portraying the spunky teen (maybe not Oscar worthy, but you can definitely see how she became a household name by no other virtue than - again - doing the job she's been given).

@MyFlippinValentine 2 жыл бұрын

I must have been the only person who thought He Man arriving on present day earth was really a cool idea

@christopherwall2121 3 жыл бұрын

Here's a fun fact: Gary Goddard, the director of this movie, was also in charge of revamping Universal Islands Of Adventure's live effects show, _Poseidon's Fury_ , when it was in dire need of one. Fast-forward to 2019, IoA pays homage to him and this film when they locate a meet and greet with the Netflix version of She-Ra in _Poseidon's Fury_ 's vicinity.

@ericjanssen394 3 жыл бұрын

He also created the sadly missed Conan the Barbarian sfx-stunt show at Universal Hollywood. (Which premiered in 1983, and, oddly enough, had Conan only becoming mystically powered up when he grabs his magic sword...)

@christopherwall2121 3 жыл бұрын

@@ericjanssen394 noice

@williamcrowe2576 3 жыл бұрын

He also gave us Captain Power and Skeleton Warriors.

@sj_harris 3 жыл бұрын

The two things that totally redeem this film are Frank Langella and Meg Foster. Otherwise it’s 80s big-budget dog-toffee (which is no bad thing IMO)

@hneugiii1245 3 жыл бұрын

As a kid I had a similar feeling but I still found it enjoyable. Now I find the best reason to watch it is for Frank Langella's performance as Skelator, just fantastic. The rest of the movie is excusable to see that. Both as a kid and an now as an adult I'll still watch it over the TMNT movie from 1990.

@davidhanson4909 3 жыл бұрын

The behind the scenes shenannigans on this film were more interesting than anything that made it to the screen. It's too bad, this movie could've been much better.

@katmartindale8049 3 жыл бұрын

I saw this on video with a bunch of friends in college. It was so terrible we couldn't help but laugh so hard we almost wet ourselves. Frank Langella obviously had too much fun as Skeletor behind that terrible make up. Years later when I had kids, it was on TV. The 8 year old thought it was the one of the most awesome movies ever made, right up there with Super Mario Brothers. Now that he's 20 years older I bet he wouldn't be so generous with his criticism. :)

@gildardorivasvalles6368 3 жыл бұрын

You should've said something about the post-credits scene, with Skeletor coming out of some pool of some boiling liquid saying that he'll be back -- I found it hilarious that they thought there were possibilities for a sequel.

@luispanaderoguardeno3306 3 жыл бұрын

What scene ?

@gildardorivasvalles6368 3 жыл бұрын

@@luispanaderoguardeno3306 I just described it -- and it appears after the credits at the end of the movie (a "post-credits scene", as I said).

@Charlesputnam-bn9zy 2 жыл бұрын

@@luispanaderoguardeno3306 the scene after the last

@KasumiKenshirou 2 жыл бұрын

They were planning on making one, but the rights they had to Masters of the Universe expired. The work they'd already done on it and their Spider-Man movie turned into the movie Cyborg.

@gildardorivasvalles6368 2 жыл бұрын

@@KasumiKenshirou thanks for the info. Interesting.

@RavenHouseMystery 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, the cartoon series was a lot of fun as a kid, but there was no way the film could capture all that animated action. At least I thought this film was better than "Beastmaster 2: Through The Portal Of Time", another fantasy film sent to Earth for budgetary reasons.

@Gappasaurus 3 жыл бұрын

Robin, you seem particularly peeved about this movie 😅 Thanks for suffering through it again for our sake 😁

@ringbearer1420 3 жыл бұрын

That shirt is exceptional.

@ashleys9397 3 жыл бұрын

It indeed is O Ring Bearer.

@TheNecessaryEvil 3 жыл бұрын

Gives off low rent Flash Gordon vibes

@lloydmckay3241 3 жыл бұрын

What could one expect from a movie based on a TV cartoon. Not really too much.

@Madmax-rz5hz 3 жыл бұрын

That Fender Rhodes would be worth a Bob or two today

@caeserromero3013 3 жыл бұрын

It's like Star Wars, Meets Highlander, Meets Back to the Future, meets V....

@clauscombat418 3 жыл бұрын

If there is a movie adaptation i dispise, it's the US "New adventures of Pippi Longstocking". I think it counts as horror..?🤔

@euansmith3699 3 жыл бұрын

I got a good giggle from your username; thank you.

@KarlBunker 3 жыл бұрын

Ha; I got the "Friends" jokes even though I've never watched the show and didn't know it included an actress named Courtney Cox. The power of deductive reasoning, as somebody or other would say.

@alexthelizardking 3 жыл бұрын

Frank langella's skeletor is an underrated villain performance.

@alanhouston5874 11 ай бұрын

The 80’s not only did every finale have a synth being played over it, many times playing a synth was actual the fundamental action in the finale

@kali3665 3 жыл бұрын

But at least Frank Langella had fun - that was pretty clear.....

@ritawing1064 3 жыл бұрын

Have you done "John Carter of Mars"? I love that film to bits, but I think it got a terrible reception. I'd love to hear your opinion.

@robotrix 3 жыл бұрын

Suffered because Star Wars "borrowed" so much from it that people went "Seen it"

@ritawing1064 3 жыл бұрын

@@robotrix is that it? I'm not really up to speed on these things, I'm afraid.

@andrewgwilliam4831 3 жыл бұрын

I think that'd be too recent for them.

@skylx0812 3 жыл бұрын

There's a silly escape scene where it looks like James Purefoy is getting a kick out of Taylor Kitsch's skimpy costume.

@mariakelly1059 3 жыл бұрын

Maybe the reason that Frank Langella didn't win the Best Actor Oscar for Frost/Nixon (which is a great film) is because the voters saw this movie.

@fredflintstone7943 3 жыл бұрын

Megan Foster underappreciated actress! Starting to enjoy these videos. Keep it up and you'll convince me to subscribe etc.

@goodlookingcorpse 3 жыл бұрын

Imagine a crossover between this version of Skeletor, Jeremy Irons' bad guy from the Dungeons & Dragons movie, and Brian Blessed's Prince Vultan.

@josephdougherty2456 3 жыл бұрын

I realize I've written for two actors in this movie, Chelsea Field and Meg Foster.

@andreiiliepopescu6393 3 жыл бұрын

I'd surely watch it for the camp element and Dolph's muscles/accent. Thank you for this review, Robin ! :)

@MrBartleby451 3 жыл бұрын

Apparently Frank Langella only made the movie because his son was a huge fan of He-man and wanted to please him. He knew nothing of He-Man before setting foot on the set.

@danddoty3981 3 жыл бұрын

Maybe that was a lucky break for Frank.

@MrBartleby451 3 жыл бұрын

@@danddoty3981 What, not knowing what he walking into? In an interview he was very kind to the movie. I think he was / or is a gentleman.

@andrewgwilliam4831 3 жыл бұрын

Doesn't sound like he would've known much more when walking back off it!

@JnEricsonx 3 жыл бұрын

I loved this film when I was a kid, and have thanked the director on FB for making it. Hell, it didn't even bother me that they didn't have everything from the cartoon.

@k.t.katzmann8793 3 жыл бұрын

My biggest adaptation disappointment had to be Kull the Conqueror. The most brooding and introspective of Howard's heroes reduced to a film steals dialogue from The Empire Strikes Back. At least they kept "By This Axe, I Rule."

@ashleys9397 3 жыл бұрын

I've never seen KULL THE CONQUEROR though I'm certainly familiar with the original pulp stories. I still remain a worshipful fan of the 1982 CONAN THE BARBARIAN (though it goes without saying that CONAN THE DESTROYER didn't make the grade). The 2011 CONAN was also unexpectedly very good---though star Jason Momoa still ain't no Schwarznegger.

@namelessjedi2242 3 жыл бұрын

A couple points: there was a Mattel version of the story and characters before the Filmation cartoon (which was different), and this film should not be taken as an adaptation of either one, per se. Also, this storyline and characters were actually an unofficial adaptation of Jack Kirby’s “New Gods” comics, with Eternian characters in place of Darkseid and the others. The cosmic key was the motherbox, etc.

@reactivearmour5126 2 жыл бұрын

Why didn’t they make a cartoon movie like Transformers and GI Joe did?

@martinradcliffe4798 3 жыл бұрын

Meg Foster is always good value.

@christalbot210 Жыл бұрын

Cyberpunk was a big thing then, and I thought it would be cool if she played a Cyber-Samurai. Everybody would tell her character that they liked her cyber-eyes and she would angrily tell them that they're her real eyes (which, of course, they are). I've always been fascinated by her, but she never seemed to get really good roles (a real shame).

@martinradcliffe4798 Жыл бұрын

@@christalbot210 She did have pretty amazing guys. "They Live" was one of her better roles.

@amb163 3 жыл бұрын

I watched this as a kid, too, loving the cartoon. And even as a kid, I knew this movie was total garbage. You've roasted it... masterfully!

@thekaijumaster200x3 3 жыл бұрын

You can't go wrong with Cannon.

@ashleys9397 3 жыл бұрын

Indeed.

@patrickmoreau7592 2 жыл бұрын

Skelator really wants He-Man!

@mahatmarandy5977 3 жыл бұрын

Jem and the Holograms, obviously

@robotrix 3 жыл бұрын

Josie and the Pussycats

@mahatmarandy5977 3 жыл бұрын

robotrix oh, good one! Good suggestion.

@mmickle6191 2 жыл бұрын

Can we get an annual Peter Cushing Awards? It'd be more meaningful than Oscar season. I must share this so other people who are as intelligent and gorgeous as we are can have a laff at the award bit 😂

@tommydarbe1524 3 жыл бұрын

Doc Savage was a huge disappointment

@ashleys9397 3 жыл бұрын

Particularly if you were a fan of the 1960s DOC SAVAGE pulp novels. I must've read a ton of those way back in my tender years. A total delight.

@VgnRaj 3 жыл бұрын

Both Monica (Courtney Cox) and her mother (Christina Pickles who played the sorceress) were here from Friends. So many soon to be stars were here and not just from Star Trek.

@skylx0812 3 жыл бұрын

Pickles was in the long running 80s hospital drama St. Elsewhere.

@ashleys9397 3 жыл бұрын

@@skylx0812 Thank you for noting that. For those of you not in the know ST. ELSEWHERE was the direct forerunner of medical drama shows like GREY'S ANATOMY.

@wimvanderstraeten6521 3 жыл бұрын

This movie is closer to Flash Gordon than to the MOTU universe.

@davidhanson4909 3 жыл бұрын

Was that the same city street from the climax of Monster Squad? And that particular stretch of desert has been in more movies than Michael Caine.

@JnEricsonx 3 жыл бұрын

Both filmed in California, but different parts.

@alankohn6709 Жыл бұрын

I love the fact that this is one of Frank Langella's favourite roles and like Raul Julia he did it for his kids.

@acrovader 3 жыл бұрын

About 20 years ago or so, some movie studio (Paramount, Fox, ??) wanted to do a 3-hour 'Masters of the Universe' film in the style of the LOTR films.

@ashleys9397 3 жыл бұрын

If that's in any way true we should then be thankful that it missed the green light. Even with a multi-million dollar budget and (then) state of the art special effects---can you even begin to picture a THREE HOUR adaptation of MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE? Such a prospect truly buggers the imagination.

@KasumiKenshirou 2 жыл бұрын

And Sony's Amy Pascal wanted to do a Barbie vs. He-Man movie. (It was also her idea to do a female Ghostbusters reboot instead of the sequel that the people who actually made Ghostbusters wanted to do.)

@luispanaderoguardeno3306 3 жыл бұрын

I didn't saw any comment about that Eternials, are vegetarians on this movie.

@MoxieMcMurder 2 жыл бұрын

Frank Langella is having a blast in this film.

@alanbehrens4231 3 жыл бұрын

Like the Kurosawa T-shirt. And a great film review of an awful film. Courtney Cox was cute.

@andrewyoung2796 3 жыл бұрын

I was wondering who that was. Is my face Red🤦

@christalbot210 Жыл бұрын

My nephew was REALLY big into He-Man at the time and was very excited when the movie came out. I was watching the cartoon (eh, it let me pass the day and sometimes there would be good bits), so I got volunteered to go with him. I really wasn't expecting much from this film, but it was much better then what I expected (not that my expectations was a hard bar to clear). My nephew LOVED it. 🙂

@carn9507 3 жыл бұрын

Eh I still have some fondness for it. Even as a kid I found Courteney Cox very cute. Also that leg injury gave me a nightmare back then. 😋 I think Dolph at least looks good as He-Man and that version recently was in the Masters of the Multiverse comic series too and had action figures last year. It's Cannon trash, sure but eh it passes the time OK for me. Even just for Cox and the performances of Langella and Foster. And amusing that the Sorceress would become Ross and Monica's mum in Friends too. 😋 And as others said even the cartoon did have He-Man's mother come from Earth so they could have mentioned that in the film but I guess it might need Adam explained too? Maybe. And speaking of Prince Adam, well, He-Man wasn't always Adam. In the earliest mini comics with the original figures He-Man was a barbarian from a tribe and the harness made him tough and the axe and shield were his main weapons, the Sword was the macguffin (it was about combining the half-sword you got with the He-Man toy with the purple half-sword that came with Skeletor). Adam was added by DC Comics as a 'Clark Kent' identity when they did He-Man comics of him meeting Superman and after that the Filmation cartoon used the Adam identity and made it famous. OK I know too much trivia about all this and I'm probably already boring people so I shush now. Good night. 🙂

@edisonlima4647 3 жыл бұрын

About the animation, though, I never quite got why the good eagle-shifting sorceress lived in a castle shaped like a skull set in a dark valley, while the evil skeleton mage ruled from a peak amidst mountains. Wouldn't that make more sense the other way around?

@robinbailes5236 3 жыл бұрын

According to documentary The Power of Greyskull (which we are reviewing this Friday) the idea was that Greyskull was just the castle where the sword was, it wasn't good or evil just a source of power for good and evil to fight over. Although I think they retro-fitted that explanation because they liked the castle design.

@bostonrailfan2427 5 ай бұрын

the good thing is it made us appreciate James Tolkan for his ability to make you like him even in a crappy movie, plus it made sure Robert Duncan McNeill stayed a nobody until he was cast in Star Trek

@georgiahoosier 3 жыл бұрын

I can't help but feel that if you built one of those "Forensic Files" faces over Skeletor's head, you'd get something that looks like Dean Jagger

@JeffreyDeCristofaro Жыл бұрын

Well this may be bad, but at least it's still better (even as just a guilty pleasure) than the more recent animated reboot. I was only 2 years old when this film came out, so I missed the whole 1980's He-Man kid fad. Looking back and trying to put myself in the context of those kids who really got into this at the time sadly doesn't seem to be working... which is a shame, considering how much I love 1980's pulp sword-and-sorcery films.

@docthemetalfreak 3 жыл бұрын

did Skeletor break the 4th wall when he declared himself the master of the universe?

@JCIce007 3 жыл бұрын

The way the scene is staged, I think he saupposed to be looking directly at He-Man. But there's also a holocamera somewhere, since he's broadcasting it across Eternia.

@PFiction24 3 жыл бұрын

6:46 you blink out of existence for a second Robin, you ok?

@matthewconstantine5015 3 жыл бұрын

Man, when they ended up on Earth, little-kid version of me was so disappointed. I wasn't even in to He-Man, but dang it, I wanted weird fantasy, not running around strip malls.

@jankarieben1071 2 жыл бұрын

“To be fair” Earth exists in the cartoon canon, the Queen is from Earth

@patrickdrazen3574 3 жыл бұрын

Frank Langella as Skeletor: Good actor, lousy mask. Couldn't they have given him better makeup? My "favorite" Big Budget Letdown was not a TV version; it was the big screen epic "Excalibur"! I'd call it Nicol Williamson's hammiest performance.

@ashleys9397 3 жыл бұрын

I have a little bit of a difference of opinion with you regarding EXCALIBUR. It's a rather flawed and certainly less than successful movie, but at the same time it does contain a fair amount of good stuff. It was directed by John Boorman, who's definitely a usually great director with a very strong visual sense. (Indeed it was his visual style & feel for production design that made EXORCIST II: THE HERETIC a little more bearable than the rest of that movie.) But I'll concede that your opinion of Nichol Williamson's performance is probably valid; he certainly made for a less than impressive Merlin. But I have to add that hammy is as hammy does. For example: Have you ever seen Vincent Price's performance in Corman's THE PIT & THE PENDULUM? It well qualifies as USDA Grade A choice Ham.

@PFiction24 3 жыл бұрын

Lengella got ripped to be on this movie, thinking Skelitor would dress like he did in the cartoon.

@erikthewriter 2 жыл бұрын

The movie isn’t based on the Cartoon but the comics. Thats why there’s no Prince Adam, no masters and none of the many evil minions.

@nicks1451 3 жыл бұрын

So my friends directed the new live-action Masters of the Universe movie coming out next year. I've known them for 32 years lol

@desi1790 3 жыл бұрын

Looks like a great voice cast

@nicks1451 3 жыл бұрын

@@desi1790 my friends directed the live-action movie, not the animated version that Kevin Smith produced, just so there's no confusion.

@lindaeasley5606 3 жыл бұрын

If you haven't already done so,please review Olga's House of Shame from 1964 .

@ashleys9397 3 жыл бұрын

O YES! YES! YES! Though I've never actually seen it I would think that it would make for a---interesting?---review. And while you're at it they might also consider THE SINFUL DWARF (1973) for a look--see. Oh yes.

@Tchernobog 2 жыл бұрын

6:08 bad guys gotta stop building their headquarters in such high places and having final battles there

@LaDracul 3 жыл бұрын

It's a Courtney Cox movie with a character named Monica and Christina Pickles...spooky...

@StevenSmyth 3 жыл бұрын

I can’t shit on this movie too much. A lot of my friends at the time worked on props and armor that appear in the film.

@DarkCornersReviews 3 жыл бұрын

They did their job well. The script writers... not so much.

@StevenSmyth 3 жыл бұрын

@@DarkCornersReviews I was 26 or 27 when i saw the movie in Hollywood at the Egyptian (now The Director’s Guild theater) when it came out and I was entertained mainly because I was an adult and had no stakes in the material. The funny part about it was I not only knew most of the prop guys who worked on the film, I also knew some of the animators over at Filmation who worked on the show. Needless to say, they weren’t thrilled.

@thewanderingfool4435 2 жыл бұрын

Why do i get the feeling that Evil Lyn would be down with anything in the bedroom? And why do i get the feeling Skeletor would stand there just watching, all the time doing his crazy laugh? I mean is Skeletor enjoying what he's seeing, or just laughing at the performance taking place under the sheets? Also is Evil Lyn a biter & scratcher or a screamer? personally i think she would be both!! This movie raises so many questions yet gives no real answers.

@user-xn7xo5vk5y 3 ай бұрын

Frank Langella steals the show. Not to mention the excellent Bill Conti score. Watched this one endlessly as a kid though.

@FailSonOfAnarchy Жыл бұрын

1:31 Don't forget Man E. Faces (he had many faces).

@deheerdeheer 3 жыл бұрын

I love your videos and your sense of humour. But your voice always sounds so muffled, and the movie fragments are always SO much louder and more clear. It would be an even better watch if the sound balance would be a bit better. Cheers.

@ThreadBomb 3 жыл бұрын

I think the problem is partly the way movies are mixed now, with music and sound effects much louder than dialog. I don't know who they think they are helping with this approach...