"I HAVE THE POWER!"

- He-Man likes no clothes and lots of oil.
- Teela has a metal thong.
- Skeletor like some bling-bling.
- The guy from Back to the Future.
- If they got guns, why are you using a sword?
- Did Skeletor ask Vader to borrow his storm Troopers in black?
-I still don't get why they needed the Cosmic key, confusing.
- Where in the hell is Orko?

Yes, this film is campy, full of plot holes and bad acted but I enjoyed it, a film from the 80's from beginning to end.

- Where is Battle Cat?!

Dolph Lundgren! With Two Greased-Up Points of Articulation! Frank Langella! With Way-Too-Good-For-This-Movie Voice Response! Billy Barty! With Automatic Comic Relief Delightfulness! James Tolkan! With Three Different Levels of Blue Collar Befuddlement AND Korean War Veteran Action! And Courtney Cox, who comes with a FREE Dead Parents Action Playset!

Collect them all!

This is my all time greatest guilty pleasure.Though I don't now how guilty. It is ridiculosly awesome.

It's cheesy. It's recycling many things that Star Wars already did ten years earlier. It's not a great movie by any means. Hell, it's based on a line of toys!
But it's just one of those movies you remember watching when you where young (along with the cartoon and the toys). It has familiar faces like the sweet Courtney Cox, a well-oiled Dolph Lundgren who wields his sword around like he means it, Robert Duncan McNeill of Star Trek Voyager fame, Frank Langella (unrecognizable) as Skeletor and Billy Barty makes for a funny Yoda stand-in. It's an 1980s piece and probably as flat as the Bill and Ted movies and many other flicks from that era.

Still, it's fun. And I re-watched it not for the first time. :-)

My rating is about 80% nostalgia, but I do think this is a good film and not nearly as bad as some people claim. Keeping in mind that it's a movie for kids, I think it's pretty well done; the characters are colorful and the visuals are great. Of course it could have been more of a "He-Man" film, but it's not, so go fuck yourself.

I don't usually do sci-fi fantasy, but this is a kind of fun little romp- the kind of movie to watch drunk with friends, pointing out all the awesome(ly bad) special effects and make-up. Gotta love a bit of 80's laser gun action and OTT strobing.

The story didn't do it for me though, I suppose you've gotta be a fan of the source material to really enjoy this.

I guess this qualifies as a guilty pleasure. I mean, say what you will about the movie but the casting is pretty awesome. Frank Langella is perfect as Skelator. Meg Foster is great as Evil-Lyn. Billy Barty seems to have a lot of fun playing Gwildor. And seriously, in 1987 who would have been a better choice to play He-Man than Dolph Lundgren?

Pure camp, but a very likable cast. I have some very good memories of watching this with my young son at the time it came out. He was a huge He Man fan (that'll embarrass the hell out him). It also brings along a great score and Langella acting his ass off even though he spends the whole movie behind a mask. Lundgren in one of his few hero roles where he actually gets beyond mumbling his lines and is pretty good.

I've watched a lot of crap from the same period as this film, but this Golan-Globus production didn't grate on my nerves the same way. It's cheeseball stuff, just like the cartoon, but there's something about this I didn't mind at all. The camp of the original material has been dialed back, believe it or not. The actors don't get in the way of the threadbare plot or the visual effects. This kind of works. I don't like it, but I certainly don't hate it.

Full marks for the casting of Frank Langella as Skeletor, who wrings an entertaining performance out of that subpar makeup.

If you want he-man nostalgia, save your money and watch this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-S0T4xTdLY

I had not seen this film since I was a kid, and re-watching it on blu-ray now, I understand why not even my 9 year old self liked it.

I could critique the story, but hey (YEYAAEYAAAEYAEYAA), its a he-man movie starring Dolph Lundgren. So I'll just say this: they had a fantastic alien planet to work with, but for some reason they decided to set most of the story on earth. Disappointing.

What is worse is that it has very few of the characters I loved from the cartoon. Not even Battle Cat! And those that are there, don't really resemble the characters from the cartoons all that much.

I can usually get a lot of enjoyment just from the practical effects in movies from this era, but not even those are that good. Even for its time.