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  Review by Patrick Willems ★★½ 6

  Not to be rude but He-Man seems like kind of a boring guy

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  Review by karen h. ★½ 6

  WHY DOES HE-MAN HAVE A GUN

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  Review by Matt Singer ★★

  I can’t believe Monica never told any of the other Friends that she met He-Man.

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  Review by Comicbookfan ★★½ 2

  Not really aware of masters of the universe but the film wasn't that good, I know isn't too faithful to the source and that they never went to earth in the cartoon but this was still kind pf fun, the look of the film is very low budget and that added to the charm and skeletor was really good but not a film I would watch again.

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  Review by nathaxnne [hiatus <3] ★★★★ 7

  So Many Burning Synthesizers!!!

  As a Masters Of The Universe film, this is simply terrible. As the ultimate freeway disaster/destiny of every low-budget Italianate rip-off genre of the 1980's: Mad Max, Conan, Star Wars, Interdimensional Wormhole To Earth, it fairly rules. There are like 2 primary locations: Eternia/Castle Greyskull and Earth/Junkyard with the usual tour of other important places on Earth like Synthesizer Store, Chicken/Rib Outlet, High School Dance Stage. Many synthesizers do not escape with their lives. The acting would be excellent in a Star Wars movie, but is generally ok outside of that context. Thankfully, everyone (including Bill Conti's score) is told to act as if they were in a Star Wars film, so it seems exceptionally sprightly.…

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  Review by sarah squirm ★★★★ 4

  star wars can suck it

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  Review by P𝕠𝕠𝕕𝕚𝕟𝕚 ★★★½ 2

  This film was so disappointing to me as a kid.
  As an adult now..... it’s kind of awesome!🗡

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  Review by Austin Shermer ★★ 2

  Imagine if someone wanted to combine Conan the Barbarian with Star Wars but it ended up looking like a cross been very high class LARPing and an 80s music video. Very bad but also very rad.

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  Review by Travis Lytle ★★★½

  Though it begins like something out of the Roger Corman canon, Gary Goddard's "Masters of the Universe" eventually shrugs off its coat of bargain-basement cheese and becomes something watchable and fun. To be sure sure, a whiff of limited budget cheese remains; but a fully committed Dolph Lundgren, a glowering Frank Langella, and a spirited display of fantasy and adventure beats elevate what could have been a eye-roll inducing affair.

  Based on the 1980s Mattel toys, "Masters of the Universe" follows Lundgren's He-Man as he travels to Earth thanks to a dimension-opening key. From his home of Eternia, a team of beastmen and assorted villains pursue the muscular hero. In the suburbs, He-Man and his allies wage battle against their…

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  Review by Dave Taylor ★★★★★ 7

  As a child, Masters of the Universe was my favorite thing ever. I had a boatload of the toys, I watched the cartoon whenever it was on, and the movie was one of the greatest spectacles ever burned onto celluloid.

  My son has never seen the Masters of the Universe cartoon and thought the movie sucked.

  But, at least he wasn’t scared of Skeletor or his monster minions, so I consider this a win.

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  Review by Frechdrax ★★★ 6

  Ein Prinz im braunen Lederschlüpfer schwingt gerne mal den blonden Vokuhila, präsentiert seinen Bizeps und vermöbelt skurrile Bösewichte während er mit seinen Kameraden und einem haarigem Gnom, ein mit Gabeln bestücktes Akkordeon sucht, um einen blassen Dude mit miesen Augenringen aufzuhalten.

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  Review by 🎄 Leighton Trent 🎄 ★★ 3

  I have no attachment to this whatsoever (my wife grew up on this film in particular and begged me to watch it with her 😂), so the cheese factor was off the charts for me, but once it finally gets going, it becomes something close to decent and not your bottom of the basement Roger Corman D-picture I was fully expecting it to stay as during its whole running time. And, also, Frank Langella is one badass Skeletor and one of the only reasons this was worth watching.