Straight off the bat, let me just say a huge THANK YOU to Adam and Jennie from Murraylands local radio station 5MU. I just so happened to win a free double pass to the cinema via their Pick the Flick game. If it were not for the two of you and this funny little segment, my wife and I might just have given Masters of the Universe the… dare I say it… flick…
Instead, we added a visit to the cinema to a kid free date day in Mount Barker. After dropping our youngest at school and our eldest daughter at work, an appointment, and some shopping, oh, and lunch too, my wonderful wife and I settled in for what we hoped was not going to be a terrible decision…
We had both grown up in the eighties, and the He-Man and She-Ra cartoons were a fond distant memory for the both of us (I still have a Battle Cat and one of the He-Man action figures somewhere in my old toy collection). Thinking that nothing could ever match the action and fun of this old animation we sat in the dark with four other people and waited to see just how our memories would be ruined.
How wrong were we… This movie seems to stay true to memory, while adding elements of coming of age, some blatant adult humour, and enough tension to satisfy any romantic. The actor who plays Prince Adam (Nicholas Galitzine) may be familiar to some, but was a complete unknown to me, which worked well in my opinion. The Sci Fi/Fantasy elements were a bit Star Wars-ish, but not blatantly so (I’m a fan but the wife not so much… So the fact neither of us lost interest at any moment says a lot), and the muscles… Well… Let’s just say I’m pretty sure Galitzine works out… A goofy, action packed, thrill ride of a film… I will be rushing to the cinema to watch the sequel (and trust me… There will be a sequel). I’m 100% sure that my wife will be right beside me on that. It will be interesting to see the direction that the film makers will take this idea in the years to come.
Is this a kid’s film? Um… Heck no… Although thanks to the internet there is some stuff in there that back in the early 2000s you would have had to have some uncomfortable conversations with your teen or tween which you can now probably just awkward chuckle about. Probably not a film for the older generation either. It feels like it has been crafted for those of us who got up at six each morning with our bowl of cereal and yelled out at the top of our lungs… By the power of Grayskull!!
In my opinion, this is nostalgia done 100% right.
5 ridiculous stars out of 5…
I’m glad we did not need to pay for our tickets, but, now that we know what we are in for, we will happily pay to see the next one.