This is 80's gold. Frank killed it as Skeletor. Courtney Cox killed it as a naive 80's teen, and Dolph killed it as He-Man. I pray the remake lives up to this classic.

Masters of the Universe offers good moments, the makeup is very well done, but it doesn't last for long.

This movie has great actors and I love he man and skeletor in this movie the costumes look real and you can't tell if it's costumes are not and it goes between worlds perfectly I saw it when I was seven years old and I thought it was better than Star Wars....

By the owner of greyskull One of the best fantasy movies ever

For many of us, it’s a nostalgic blast from our childhood and fans of 80s sci-fi will get their money’s worth. Frank Langella steals the show as Skeletor and its classic heroes are the kind missing from much of today’s more socially-nuanced storytelling. He-Man rescues those in trouble, fights for those who can’t and treats his friends with respect and loyalty. He’s good for the sake of goodness, and as of this writing, I found it refreshing and charming. Courtney Cox also shines amidst a likable cast of sincere, good-natured characters fighting against the forces of evil. The villains are also pleasantly one-note, power-mad for the sinful pleasures of evil, and they pay for it. Skeletor and company don’t see themselves as the true heroes saving the universe, as many of our modern day movie villains do. They’re bad because they’re bad and they relish it, plain and simple. The movie is brisk, the practical effects are beautiful and the heart is big! Love this one!

It's a bad movie that I liked as a kid.

It's so bad, it's almost good. I enjoy it purely for the nostalgia. Frank Langella nails it as Skeletor.

Better Than MOTU: Revelations Eternia is a world where science and magic are infused. The evil forces of Skeletor have captured Castle Greyskull and are close to harnessing its power to conquer the world. Only one thing stands in Skeletor's way: a man...a He-Man. The creative team swung for the fences on this one. Unfortunately, it's a miss. What kills this movie for me is that most if it is spent on Earth. Instead of a fantasy/sci-fi epic that could have explored more of Eterina than the show did, we got a family drama with monsters and Principal Strickland. Where was Battlecat? Why replace Orco? Why did Skeletor choose the worst villains to pursue He-Man? Why couldn't the writers have trusted the audience to invest in Prince Adam's ability to transform into He-Man? Masters of the Universe is a good bad movie and worth watching if only to laugh at, or to dream about what it could have been. Prop I Want: Skeletor's powered up helmet Most Punchable Face: Blade Favorite Quote: "I have the powerrrrrrrrr!" - He-Man

Para a epoca o filme foi muito bom, o que pecou é que faltou o mago gorpo, o gato guerreiro e a transformação de Adam em He Man, o ambiente deveria ter sido em Eternia, ok ter vindo para a terra, mas as lutas foram bastante chatas, a prisão de He Man foi muito ruim, mas mesmo assim ainda merece uma nota 3

For 1987 this was a really great movie if you liked He-Man. The best part of the movie is there's no empty boring dialogue every moment of the movie is pretty much essential. There's no emo moments for someone as staring into a lake for 9 minutes sobbing about what could have been. Very good good versus evil movie.

This was a bad movie. I would recommend watching it once but never again. The tv show was a whole lot better than this could have ever been.

It was a blast from the Past from times of childhood and satarday morning cartoons. It reminds you how primative we were back then in graphics and story telling deffently remided me of the late 1980's. He man has the Cosmic Key that lets them travel through space and time. It felt like they took Star Wars story and mixed it with Conan The Barbian. Skeltors forces had the strong feel of Storm Troopers with the helments and laser guns in all. And just like the classic storm troopers they cant hit the right side of the barn. Later in the movie we see the impossible where a storm trooper did hit He-Man. I guess there is a first for everything right. The key gets activated and He-man, man at arms, and Teela escape in the portal from skeltor and they end up on earth. This is where they meet Juile working a roadside chicken and rips place. Who knew you could get a bucket of friend chicken with ribs in them??? Her parents had just died and from what it seemed it was very recent. She had no affect that one would think of just loosing both their parents. Juile had told someone she worked with she was going away and was ending things with her boyfriend Kevin. Classic bad graphics when Skeltor's forces follow through their own portal they were trying to get through a fence and they cut it several times and instead of ripping away where they showed him cutting it. He grabs the fence from off camera and tears it away. So So Bad..... Clasic "B" Movie. Apperently they used their budget for the soundtract by getting Purple Haze and a few other big artist. It had the Tony Kahn feeling where money was just liquid as long as you are buying songs. LOL When Keven and Juile was trying to figure out what this item was and it would play music and kick up a very bad light show. At the record store the clerk goes well it must have been made in Japan. Classic 80's thinking that anything electroic and you dont know what it was. Well Japan made it LOL clasic 80's thinking when Detative Lubic goes with kevin in the house that was for sale (Juile's Parents house) he just walks into the house and lights up a cig and starts to smoke. Not even caring to ask can i smoke in here. Yay it was that way back then everyone. The one bright spot from this movie was the lines that Gwildor gave. He was very good cosmic relief. Skeltor comes to earth to take care of them and destory's their cosmic key, and left them there. He man ask if they can fix it and thats when we discover well music and tone's control space and time and the items to fix it Man at Arms and Teela just so happens to have it and then Kevin goes well i have a keyboard. So they make a new cosmic key to go back confrot skeltor. Skeltor tells heman when the eye opens you will bow infont all of the people and plege your loyatly to me. So when the eye open they show 5 people out ther 3 of them looked like they were prisoners. Some massive population LOL This left me speechless You did have a decent fight scene where skeltor uses He-man sword after he captured him and whipped him with a really bad laser whip. and becomes all gold. He man escapes and you have the battle between the two With He man doing the classic line "I have The Power" the thing that was so bad skeltor parry's a blow by he man and skeltor looses the extra power. Like come on he didn't even hit him but ok. The final battle scene is where we get the Conan the Barbian feel from this movie. If you board and want a good laugh, liked he man back in the day, and love train wrecks check this out. Grit your teeth and hold on and like He-Man You can have the power too to make it through this but you must HAVE THE POWER!!!!!

I am currently watching this again rn and I actually love it. And people who says it's the worst like come on. This cake out in the 80s we didn't have many live action superhero type movies at all during that period . Yes we had superman and 1989s batman And few more but masters of the universe wasn't and isn't the worst movie

No matter how bad you think it will be, it is worse.

This movie was incredible! I was a big fan of the He-Man cartoon growing up and thought this film was a fresh take on the muscle bound hero. A lot of people put this version down because it doesn't resemble the cartoon at all, but that's what makes it amazing. This movie has become a cult favorite and deservedly so. I think if people gave it a second chance without the preconceived notion that it's like the 80's cartoon that came before, they will love it just as much as I do! I highly recommend this one.

B-movie fantasy, that scratches onto some very delighted spots. Yes,. there is parts which are truly fascinating, but the overall action and acting is beyond horrible.

This movie is FANTASTIC! It is the epitome of 80's excess and has high production values, despite being from Cannon Films(this was THE studio in the 80s!) The special effects still look REALLY good for a movie made 25 years ago, and the actors are top-notch, with some really interesting characters and a surprisingly amazing story line which does not get the credit it deserves. Yes, it might not be faithful to the source material in some regards, but this is a REALLY amazing sci fi/fantasy movie which excels in capturing the spirit of its time.

Great movie for anyone who watched he man cartoon in the 80s

Grade B movie, but it is a cult classic. Many fans of the fantasy genre from the 80s loved it, but the adaptation from the source material was a bit on the weak side.

As a 15-year-old, I absolutely hated this movie. He-Man was a known property with a series that was on 온라인카지노추천 every day, one of the best-selling toys and just about everyone knew everything there was about the mythos of Eternia, but the movie only spends a few minutes in Eternia and has human characters in the place of ones you'd want to see like Stratos, Fisto and Zodac. Or Tri-Klops, Batros and Man-E-Faces. Or Mer-Man, Ram Man and Sorceress. If by now you don't realize how deep my He-Man fandom goes, by the end of this you'll realize just how little I ever believed that I'd date anyone. If I'd just realized that it was a secret Jack Kirby movie, maybe I would have loved it. John Byrne, who is one of my biggest artistic influences — well, next to Kirby — called this out, saying, "The best New Gods movie, IMHO, is Masters of the Universe. I even corresponded with the director, who told me this was his intent, and that he had tried to get Kirby to do the production designs, but the studio nixed it. Check it out. It requires some bending and an occasional sex change (Metron becomes an ugly dwarf, The Highfather becomes the Sorceress), but it's an amazingly close analog, otherwise. And Frank Langella's Skeletor is a dandy Darkseid!" To be fair, Star Wars is also a complete pastiche of the New Gods. Director Gary Goddard responded in the letter page of Byrne's comic book Next Men: "As the director of Masters of the Universe, it was a pleasure to see that someone got it. Your comparison of the film to Kirby's New Gods was not far off. In fact, the storyline was greatly inspired by the classic Fantastic Four/Doctor Doom epics, The New Gods and a bit of Thor thrown in here and there. I intended the film to be a "motion picture comic book," though it was a tough proposition to sell to the studio at the time. "Comics are just for kids," they thought. They would not allow me to hire Jack Kirby who I desperately wanted to be the conceptual artist for the picture… I grew up with Kirby's comics (I've still got all my Marvels from the first issue of Fantastic Four and Spider-Man through the time Kirby left) and I had great pleasure meeting him when he first moved to California. Since that time I enjoyed the friendship of Jack and Roz and was lucky enough to spend many hours with Jack, hearing how he created this character and that one, why a villain has to be even more powerful than a hero, and on and on. Jack was a great communicator, and listening to him was always an education. You might be interested to know that I tried to dedicate Masters of Universe to Jack Kirby in the closing credits, but the studio took the credit out." As it was, the look of this movie was created by William Stout, who has drawn several comic books as well as drawing the storyboards for Raiders of the Lost Ark and First Blood and concept and production art for Invaders from Mars, Conan the Barbarian, The Hitcher, Pan's Labyrinth, The Willies, Return of the Living Dead, Theodore Rex, Predator and The Warrior and the Sorceress, which he also wrote. Obviously, I'm also a huge fan of Stout's work. He was joined by Jean "Moebius" Giraud, an artist whose influence on movies can't be measured, from working on Jodorowsky's Dune to being in the art department for Alien, TRON, Willow, The Fifth Element and The Abyss. So much of Blade Runner and its visual style is deeply in debt to Moebius. Cannon claimed that Masters of the Universe would be the Star Wars of the 1980s and if we go just on the look of the characters, they tried. The hard part is that the end result is very Cannon: a lack of budget, focus and understanding of what they had on their hands. Screenwriter David Odell had worked on The Muppet Show and The Dark Crystal. His original take on the material was closer to the cartoon, with He-Man's mother coming from Earth, more of Beast Man and more time on Eternia. There was a rewrite by Goddard and Stephen Tolkin, who also wrote Albert Pyun's Captain America, which was produced by Menahem Golan as part of his 21st Century Film Corporation after Cannon broke apart. Instead, the movie begins at an apocalyptic ending, with Skeletor's (Frank Langella, one of the major bright spots of the film; he was incredibly excited to make the movie as He-Man was his son's favorite cartoon) army finally taking Castle Grayskull and capturing the Sorceress (Christina Pickles). There's one chance to save the day and it involves He-Man (Dolph Lundgren), Man-At-Arms (Jon Cypher) and Teela (Chelsea Field) mounting a rescue mission to get Gwildor (Billy Barty) free and find his Cosmic Key, which has been stolen by Evil-Lyn (Meg Foster, forever staring directly into your soul). Their escape takes them to Earth and meeting up with orphaned schoolgirl Julie Winston (Courtney Cox), her boyfriend Kevin Corrigan (Robert Duncan McNeill) and Detective Hugh Lubic (James Tolkan, pretty much playing what you hire James Tolkan for, an incredibly angry authority figure like he was in Back to the Future). Skeletor sends Saurod (Pons Maar, who was the body model for The Noid), Beast Man (Tony Carroll), Karg (Robert Towers, who was Snoopy's voice in You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown) and Blade (Anthony de Longis, The Warrior and the Sorceress, The Sword and the Sorcerer, Dangerously Close and the voice of Lord Zygon in Starchaser: The Legend of Orin; he's also one of my favorite people in this film and trained Lundgren in sword fighting) to battle the heroes. The battle eventually does take them back to Eternia, but I can tell you, when I first saw this movie, I never wanted to see any action on our boring planet. But as I've watched this numerous times, I've come to really enjoy the look and feel of what Goddard was able to capture with the budget that he had. Goddard has claimed that Cannon forced the movie to be mostly on Earth to keep the budget down. He did ask for more money so he could at least start and end the film on Eternia. However, Cannon's financial woes — there was so little money that Goddard did every pickup and second unit shot — saw them shut down filming three days early and the final battle between He-Man and Skeletor was unfilmed. Luckily, Goddard was able to get a day to shoot the end, but as sets were being torn down throughout and the need to get it done quickly, that's why the final battle has no background in it. A supposed sequel was written and would have been directed by Albert Pyun and star surfer Laird Hamilton. In it, Skeletor would return to Earth and destroy it, making this a post-apocalyptic movie. After Masters of the Universe wasn't the Star Wars of the 1980s, Pyun rewrote the script and made Cyborg. As for Goddard, he had quite an interesting career after He-Man. Producer Edward R. Pressman (who executive produced this movie) hired him to create, write and direct a Universal Studios show, The Adventures of Conan: A Sword and Sorcery Spectacular. Goddard also wrote Tarzan the Ape Man for the Dereks, as well as developing the Captain Power and Skeleton Warriors shows and toy lines. He also helped develop Spider-Man, Terminator and Jurassic Park rides for Universal Studios. There have been numerous attempts to make a new Masters of the Universe movie. The bar, obviously, is not very high, but perhaps my love of the past and Cannon makes me look at this film — not the first movie for the property, as He-Man and She-Ra: The Secret of the Sword came out in 1985 — in a much kinder light.