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Great movie, wonderful condition,a wonderful adventure for children of all ages and Frank Langella did a great job as skellator.
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Video came in new condition. Very satisfied. Brings me back to the days of my childhood watching He-Man on Weekday mornings.
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This is a great dvd. It is definitely 5 stars. The 4 stars thing was just nonsense. I like this very much.
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I grew up with the He-Man cartoons. They used to be on early in the mornings before I went to school then sometimes it would change to the afternoons. I even use to have the action figures and Castle Greyskull. This movie is the adaptation of the original cartoon, He-man and the Masters of the Universe.
In the movie you have He-man (no role for Adam) played by Dolph Lungren (played Ivan Drago in Rocky 4, and Frank Castle in the The Punisher). Meg Foster, who you can't miss because she has those enchanting deep blue eyes, (from They Live) plays Evil-Lyn, and Frank Langella (Dracula, Superman Returns) is Skeletor. Courtney Cox (Friends, Scream) plays Julie the earthling. James Tolken (Mr. Strickland from Back to the Future) is the police detective on the Eternians tale along with Julie's boyfriend Kevin.
The movie starts out on He-man's homeworld of Eternia. Skeletor picks up where he left off in the cartoon. He is looking to rule Eternia and possess Castle Greyskull. The hitch is that Skeletor is actually victorious in taking the Castle. The sorceress is taken prisioner and Skeletor demands He-man to surrender as well. Skeletor was able to take the scorceress by suprise with the help of a magical key that was created by Gwildor (Billy Barty). Gwildor was seduced by Evil-Lyn who can change into whatever she wants as she is an evil scorceress. He-man was able to intercept Gwildor and he agrees to help He-man to right what went wrong. Skeletor finds out that Gwildor has another key ("the little worm has another key", said by Evil Lyn). He-man, Teila, Man-at-arms, and Gwildor try to rescue the Scorceress in Castle Greyskull until they get cornered. Gwildow activates the key and escape into the gate-----appearing on Earth. He-man and the Eternians try to locate the key that left their possession in transit and save Eternia before the scorceress is drained of all her power. Skeletor would be victorious.
On earth you meet Kevin who stumbles upon the key that the Eternians lost. Skeletor sends a "pitifull quartet", as he describes his soldiers (Beastman and other mercenaries). Will Kevin keep believing the key is nothing more than a keyboard full of musical tones? Will He-man and the Eternians be able to get back to their world and save the scorceress? Will Skeletor finally be victorious by taking over Eternia and enslaving He-man?
All of this equals great action and a pretty good storyline. The acting was great. Many critics slammed Frank Langella's performance as Skeletor but he made a terrific villian (remember Dracula 1979??). Meg Foster was as usual gorgeous yet dangerous. James Tolkan was pretty good as the comedic detective looking for Kevin (kevin called the police when Julie was missing). Detective Lubic didnt believe a word from Kevin until he meets up with He-man and the Eternians as well as Skeletors soldiers armed to the teeth. All in all this was a great movie that mixes action, sci-fi, and fantasy. It's not the blockbuster type but its a great cult classic for anyones DVD collection.
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I've loved this movie since I was a kid when it first came out, He-Man was one of the biggest toys and cartoon series going around at the time. I'd always had this on VHS until a few years back when VHS was replaced by DVD, and I never bothered to get this movie on DVD until now.
PLOT: Dolphy Lungren plays He-Man, a soldier for Castle Greyskull who fights for the Sorcerer on the side of good. But the evil Skeletor has taken over Greyskull and has the Sorcerer as his prisoner.
He-man teams up with surviving good guys, Leela and whatever her fathers name is, and they rescue a small dwarf alienish guy named Gwildor who they find out is an inventor of the cosmic key. A device that can open a portal tp anywhere in the universe.
They wind up trying to rescue the Sorcerer from Skeletor but find they must retreat or be defeated, they end up using the portal device to flee and find themselves on Earth.
They run into Kevin and Julie (Cortney Cox, her first movie) who accidently find the cosmic key thinking it is a musical instrument but not knowing that when they use it, Skeletor and his army are hot on the trail looking to steal it back.
Then the rest of the plot is trying to get the thing back, avoid Skeletors henchmen and get back home before Skeletor inherits the powers of Greyskull forever.
Overall, when I look at this movie now, it seems pretty corny and lame in so much of it, but yet, fun at the same time. If I had not have grown up watching this, then I'm not sure what I would think of it today, but I enjoyed this as a kid, and still have a guilty pleasure to watch it today.
The make up effects are pretty good, i'd say they had someone who was involved with Star Wars doing the effects to this. There not the best effects you have ever seen, but at the time, they where probably the best it could get.
It really reminds me of Star Wars and cough.. Suburban Commando alot. Fans of those movies may get a kick out of this one. As long as your not a twit who keeps saying, "oh those effects are so lame" well, it was the 80's and the effects are not what you are supposed to pay every bit of attention to.
I never really questioned this movie compared to the cartoon, so many reviews do, but I think i watched this more then I ever watched the cartoon, and when you think about it, how the heck could you pull off riding around on lions and a floating ghost back in the 80's anyway, it would have been way too expensive and looked lame anyway.
The bonus features are not much, i'd have loved to see deleted scenes and whatever else could be dished up. So hopefully it exists somewhere and there will be a special edition of Masters Of The Universe in the future.
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