Earlier than Margot Robbie introduced us to Barbieland, Dolph Lundgren as He-Man saved the world with Cannon Movies and the Masters of the Universe!
Now that Barbie has busted open the field workplace and set information of all types, Awfully Good Motion pictures presents one other Mattel toy line that had far much less luck on the massive display screen again in 1987: Dolph Lundgren as He-Man in Masters of the Universe!
Sure, from Cannon Movies, the proudly low cost studio that stuffed up many theaters with glorified pores and skin flicks and Chuck Norris ass-kickers within the 80s, comes the cinematic adaptation of the highly effective plastic figures that grew to become a success animated TV sequence, with Ivan Drago stepping out of the ring to play probably the most highly effective man within the universe who saves the day within the land of Eternia. Nevertheless, any vital resemblance to the long-lasting Filmation present will cease and begin on the characters, as a battle with Skeletor (Frank Langella) sends He-Man, Man-at-Arms and Teela (Orko or Prince Adam playsets not included) off to current day California, due to a “cosmic key” made by Billy Barty as a hideous wanting locksmith/elf/factor(?).
So you may think about that having He-Man in our common outdated craphole world serving to two human teenage lovebirds performed by a pre-fame Courteney “Monica Geller” Cox and Robert Duncan “Lieutenant Tom Paris” McNeill who’ve misplaced this “cosmic key” shouldn’t be the stuff which epic adventures are product of, flopping alongside Over the Prime and Superman IV: The Quest for Peace for Cannon that very same summer season and ultimately main them to chapter as a substitute of legitimacy. Nonetheless, the film that helped blast Cannon Movies additionally has the identical Awfully Good delights of their finest dangerous motion pictures: cheap-looking results, tough-talking and gun-toting cops (performed right here by James “Commander Stinger/Principal Strickland” Tolkan), and a delightfully campy efficiency from Frank Langella to offset the still-awkward performing fashion of Dolph Lundgren.
It’s certainly a hilariously dangerous masterpiece of 80s cheese, the place anybody watching it’s going to have themselves “the ability”… of laughter, that’s!