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Rating: - Losers of the Universe
Masters of the Universe was a much beloved film of mine when I was a kid because like most viewers of this movie, I was a fan of the cartoon and dolls. But now...my heavens, is this movie a total shambles. ... What could've been a fascinating movie, with an interesting plot and characters, turns into this circus that becomes a joke. Poor dialogue, with cliches every where, and a poor choice of setting for this fantasy movie.

OK, Lundgren is fine as He-man and I didn't mind Evil Lynn and some of the other characters recreated from the cartoon. But the problem was the movie created these other characters like Karg and this little dwarf thing with pimples that I don't ever remember on the show. They left out a lot of the more popular characters on the cartoon show and replaced them with these not so familiar things. Where's Orko? Where's He-man tiger? Where's Merman or Tri-Clops or the Evil Horde? All missing in the film yet huge aspects with the story of He-Man. This made it kinda frustrated for life long fans of the cartoon show like me.

But even with these new unheard of characters, this film could've still survived, but no they make another monsterous error. Instead of the plot taking place in Eternia, a land of intrigue they choose Earth, a planet that's had enough films about it. I guess they wanted the storyline to relate to us, but that's what made Masters of the Universe, the cartoon show, so enjoyable. It was in a different world, with different creatures, and powers and suddenly that gets wiped away because the director is an idiot.

I suppose it's humorous how the He-man characters have to interract with people on Earth, but that's not what we want to see. It made the film very awkward by doing this, rather than learning of a new world with new plots and conflicts, the director tries to take a short cut and use Earth as the battle ground of He-Man's battles. Which, as a matter of fact, involves a bunch of stupid cheesy and stereotypical teenagers in the mix.

These are symptoms of what I call "low budget movies." They stink because they don't have the budget to make a good movie. Naturally, directors of low budget films lack imagination in finding ways around a low budget. Instead, they aim for a quick buck by stealing an idea formed by a cartoon series and turn it into some macho movie, knowing it will sell because it shares the same name as a popular cartoon series, even though there is no comparison to which one does the better job.

I give the film two stars because it has a plot, just not a very good one. And it is entertaining and still worth seeing just for the hell of it. But it is so disappointing and there is so much potential with this film if it had just stuck to the cartoon series and didn't stray into the typical trap of trying to make it relate to us. Please, the setting isn't going to help us relate, the characters are the key to helping us relate. Not to mention Skeletor has moving lips and the guy is supposed to be a skull face. Skulls have no lips.

Masters of the Universe? Ha! Losers of the Universe because the movie has to come to over-used Earth for its battles with half the characters unknown to those of us who followed the cool cartoon series. Very disappointing.

Grade: C-

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