One of my favorite things about this movie is that it *opens* with Skeletor already having captured Castle Greyskull. You know, the goal of *every other incarnation of the character*! This movie knew that it dodn't need to introduce the characters. It knew its audience knew He-Man's story, and set the stakes astronomically high from the get go.
Too bad the script and design failed so hard... it is a lot like Legend. When the bad guys are on screen it is an epic movie, but everything else... meh at best.
@@timf7413 nope, it was mainly due to the fact that the movie had a stupidly low budget and He Man had already ran its course by the time this came out. I loved it as a kid though.
People who didn’t know He-Man, had no clue what this movie is about. The relationship between He-Man and Skeletor is told very important, but the movie never tells us why. One scene could correct that mistake. For example Julie or Kevin could ask He-Man about the backround of situation and then He-Man could tell them and the audience who he is and why Skeletor wants him.
1:04 Frank Langella gave a brilliant performance as Skeletor. I really liked what he did with Skeletor. He made Skeletor a more realistic, darker, scarier and believable villain.
He drew off his theatrical background. The dialogue is almost Skaesperean, “I shall have restitution of loneliness, shame, and scorn. It is my destiny, it is my right!”
I'm 32 now, and loved this movie as a kid. Childhood favourite. I loved how his staff thumped on the floor as he walks, and how his fingers wrap around it and make the nosies before he says "mine". Brilliant film.
Is it wrong that I resent them turning "kids' stuff" like Superboy comics into 10 seasons of smarter, all-ages TV on Smallville, but never gave the same treatment to this?
“Evil Lynn, activate the holosphere!” I like to imagine that seeing as they’ve just arrived in Castle Greyskull that she doesn’t actually know how to switch it on and that he winds up shouting out this entire massive Shakespearean level victory speech before realising it’s not broadcasting to anyone at all.
This movie has as many one-liners as Transformers: The Movie (1986) and all of them are delivered by Frank Langella's Skeletor. He totally encompasses what the character is about. This is his right, this is his destiny, and he deserves it. Before "Avengers: Infinity War" THIS Skeletor was the "Thanos" of this film.
This would be a horrible movie if Frank Langella hadn't just went for it with all his heart playing Skeletor, and Evil Lynn, though criminally under-used, was perfectly cast with Meg Foster.
He's also smart, real true powerful villains don't need to lift a finger. You should have to work to get the chance to fight skeletor. Skeletor has better things to do than cast spells on any rebels. If he spent all his time fighting he couldn't take over the universe. Why should a mastermind be doing grunt work? That's like asking the CEO of a company to mop floors. Just doesn't make sense.
Easily the three best performances in the entire film. The film as a whole would've been exponentially better if they'd based the entire thing in Eternia.
this movie is still pretty epic...even by today's standards. It's just that the plot with the Courtney Cox and her dumb dumb boyfriend are silly and the special effects are limited by the technology of the time. A remake of this today would be ill as all effing what!
It was more limited by it's budget rather than the special effects of the time . I mean just look at how awesome Legend looked which didn't come out much later than this .
@@Shadowman820 Also, compare to the original Star Wars trilogy, which predates this. Budget is the reason they had to do the Earth subplot at all, because they couldn't afford more than the interior of Castle Greyskull for Eternia. If they had a bigger budget, the whole movie would have been set in Eternia, and been infinitely better as a result.
@@Shadowman820 And that was a hell of a bit of magic. She had never met Julie's mom, so she had to have used both telepathy and illusion simultaneously to pull it off.
@@jonathonbartos5420 No. When the henchmen ransacked Julie's house, looking for the key, Karg found a newspaper clipping of her parents' death. And he gave that to Evil Lyn. That's how she knew what her mom looked like.
This movie is perfectly cast. So many good memories! I loved waiting until the end of the credits when skeletor pops out of the pit and says "I'll be back"
Well you know, in the Filmnation series he used his villain friends to protect him and also some sort of droids. He is surrounded by good and bad masters of the universe. He needs his neutral protectors around him.
In their place? Really I thought the sorceress won that particular argument. I think she scared the old bone face. Skeletor reacted with violence like any bully who is in a stronger position. Why did he hurt her? Because she drew blood first. She exposed his fear. I'm sure she was smiling on the inside.
Evil Lyn is so much better than skeletor. She is the only one who ever advances skeletors cause while all the rest of his minions and skeletor bumble arround. She doesnt look away when skeletor turns into a god. And she escapes!!!
The director revealed that they created these robot troopers because Mattel dictated that He-man was not allowed to kill anyone , so in order for him to fight and shoot at something they had to create these robots .
Won't see dialogue like this in a modern film. Hence why I GoMovies or Putlocker on the rare occasion of watching Hollyshite instead of watching reality on YT. Given the amount of propaganda and ads in modern film/shows. It should all be free to view anyways.
