Masters of the Universe

Just a fun, light-hearted sci-fi actioner that harkens back to my childhood most of the time. Nothing groundbreaking in terms of story but I thought Nicholas Galitzine did a solid job as He-Man and shared good chemistry with Camila Mendes. Idris Elba as always was charismatic no matter what he's in. Not sure why they paid Jared Leto as it doesn't sound nor look like him. The action scenes were well done and special effects were quite good. I'll probably watch again once it hits home video (
4K). **3.5/5**

Side note: I saw this at the Cinemark Screen X (guess their version of IMAX). Interes...

It's so woke, stay away stay away.... just joking, it's not woke at all. The "Girl Power" moments are when He-Man was Adam before he became He-Man and fit well with the plot, the crazy cultist actually did a great job as skelator... like he actually did a great job. It paid homage to the cartoon. It was colorful, I mean it seriously popped and I appriciate that, it made it look fun and drew me in. It respected the cartoon, it respecte the IP, it respected the fans, it really didn't shout politics, it didn't pull a Kevin Smith and insult He-Man for being masculine....

... in short it was ...

We learn quite quickly that the weedy "Adam" has only just escaped with his life and the sword of power as "Skeletor" (Jared Leto doing his best impersonation of the deceased Alan Rickman) invaded and seized "Castle Greyskull". He (now Nicholas Galitzine) didn't manage to keep hold of the sword for long in his new world, and indeed just ended up in the USA working in HR whilst constantly surfing the internet to track it down before the nasty "Evil-Lyn" (Alison Brie) manages to secure it for her menacing boss. Luckily, and somewhat comedically, "Adam" does manage to find his artefact and then l...

Travis Knight's reboot easily becomes the highest-rated entry in the franchise's film history, and it earns it. Jared Leto's Skeletor steals the show, balancing humor and villainy in a way that lives up to the memes, and Galitzine nails He-Man's heroism and Prince Adam's emotional core. Daniel Pemberton's score embraces the '80s roots with glee. The fun is undeniable — the comedy and action-packed sword-fighting land for critics and audiences alike. It's just 40 minutes too long and leans too hard on self-deprecating meta-humor where sincerity would've hit harder....

This is not a great movie, but that doesn't make it less fun.
This is nostalgia bait and anyone who tells you different has fallen for it. It is well produced, obviously. A lot of money has gone into it. The casting is great, the story does what it needs to. The bad guy is comedically comical. The line deliveries are hokey. All of these things that you expect from a Saturday morning cartoon from the 80s. The music stings remind me more of Flash Gordon than it does He-Man. And that's a shame, because Flash Gordon was a far superior movie in that it was hokey but it took itself seriously. This ...