From my favorite low-budget production company, Cannon Film, comes the live-action motion picture event of the century! Rejoice, for He-Man, starring Swedish ubermensch Dolph Lundgren, has come to the big screen! Unfortunately, Dolph doesn't get enough screen time to develop as He-Man (and he needed more screen time just to prove that he can emote), but this is alleviated by the awesome screen presence of Frank Langella as Skeletor, the amazing visual effects by Richard Edlund, and a rousing (but highly derivative) score by Rocky-composer Bill Conti. The story is idiotic to the max and some of the makeup and sound effects are really embarrassing, but it's got enough lightning bolts, laser blasts, sword battles, and explosions to keep even the shortest attention span watching. The Masters of the Universe do a lot of killing in this movie, but the thing they kill best is time!
7/10
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