He-Man and the Masters of the Universe

[viggyp]

Yes that's it. He lived in France at that time. All coming back to me now bud

[RemaL]

aka_kerrly said:

g3org3y said:

ukaskew said:

It has a lot to live up to...

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0093507/

I love that film and the cartoon. #acceptableinthe80s

agree with you both.

Who else had the toy set?



Yes I think MOTU is worth remaking!!

I had the castle and loved the movie and cartoon also. I can remember going to watch the movie when I was 10 at the cinema

[ajprice]

https://tvweb.com/masters-of-the-universe-revelati...

An anime version of He-Man, 'Masters of the Universe: Revelation', is in the works. It's a Kevin Smith production for Netflix, and the cast has been announced...

• Mark Hamill (Star Wars) as Skeletor
• Lena Headey (Game of Thrones) as Evil-Lyn
• Chris Wood (Supergirl) as Prince Adam / He-Man
• Sarah Michelle Gellar (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) as Teela
• Liam Cunningham (Clash of the Titans) as Man-At-Arms
• Stephen Root (Office Space) as Cringer
• Diedrich Bader (Napoleon Dynamite) as King Randor / Trap Jaw
• Griffin Newman (The Tick) as Orko
• Tiffany Smith (Supernatural) as Andra
• Henry Rollins (Heat) as Tri-Klops
• Alan Oppenheimer (He-Man and the Masters of the Universe) as Moss Man
• Susan Eisenberg (Justice League) as Sorceress
• Alicia Silverstone (Batman & Robin) as Queen Marlena
• Justin Long (Galaxy Quest) as Roboto
• Jason Mewes (Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back) as Stinkor
• Phil LaMarr (Futurama) as He-Ro
• Tony Todd (Candyman) as Scare Glow
• Cree Summer (DC Super Hero Girls) as Priestess
• Kevin Michael Richardson (ThunderCats) as Beast Man
• Kevin Conroy (Batman: The Animated Series) as Mer-Man
• Harley Quinn Smith (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood) as Ileena

[glazbagun]

Just watched these over the weekend. Decent enough and better than I expected with a good cliffhanger ending, though my expectations were low. Teela's character seems very of our times- pretty self obsessed and irrationally angry. He-Man is hardly in it. I don't think I can bear revisiting the originals, I did that when the Transformer movie came out and wish I hadn't, they were terrible.

• Edit. Kevin Smith is taking a ton of heat over this. I can't really disagree with most of the criticism but worse is that he seems to be using the Star Wars/Ghost Busters defence of it being the fans fault for not liking it.

Edited by glazbagun on Monday 26th July 00:00

[g3org3y]

ajprice said:

https://tvweb.com/masters-of-the-universe-revelati...

An anime version of He-Man, 'Masters of the Universe: Revelation', is in the works. It's a Kevin Smith production for Netflix, and the cast has been announced...

• Mark Hamill (Star Wars) as Skeletor
• Lena Headey (Game of Thrones) as Evil-Lyn
• Chris Wood (Supergirl) as Prince Adam / He-Man
• Sarah Michelle Gellar (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) as Teela
• Liam Cunningham (Clash of the Titans) as Man-At-Arms
• Stephen Root (Office Space) as Cringer
• Diedrich Bader (Napoleon Dynamite) as King Randor / Trap Jaw
• Griffin Newman (The Tick) as Orko
• Tiffany Smith (Supernatural) as Andra
• Henry Rollins (Heat) as Tri-Klops
• Alan Oppenheimer (He-Man and the Masters of the Universe) as Moss Man
• Susan Eisenberg (Justice League) as Sorceress
• Alicia Silverstone (Batman & Robin) as Queen Marlena
• Justin Long (Galaxy Quest) as Roboto
• Jason Mewes (Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back) as Stinkor
• Phil LaMarr (Futurama) as He-Ro
• Tony Todd (Candyman) as Scare Glow
• Cree Summer (DC Super Hero Girls) as Priestess
• Kevin Michael Richardson (ThunderCats) as Beast Man
• Kevin Conroy (Batman: The Animated Series) as Mer-Man
• Harley Quinn Smith (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood) as Ileena

According to YouTube, gone down badly with fans.

[ch37]

g3org3y said:

According to YouTube, gone down badly with fans.

A lot seem to be playing the 'woke' card and getting angry that there is a strong female lead. It's almost as if they've never seen the original with the PSA at the end of each episode!

[ajprice]

GrumpySkeletor likes it and Kevin Smith noticed. https://twitter.com/GrumpySkeletor/status/14192950...

I liked it, if they redid the original's run of Skeletor trying and failing over and over it wouldn't have worked. I finished part 1 lastnight and watched the voice cast interviews thing afterwards. I'll be watching part 2.

(If you are going to watch this with your kids there is a swear... "Oh bks" in episode 4 )

[Sway]

I bloody loved it.

Just enough 80s nostalgia, nice story arc, and exactly as GrumpySkeletor and Smith say - it's hardly far removed from the original series...

[anonymous-user]

The only good thing about the original Masters of the Universe is that it is hilariously crap, that’s it’s appeal especially the camp characters (Fisto!) and naff animation.

[glazbagun]

Yeah, there are some big flaws with the latest show but at the end of the day it's He-Man, not Citizen Kane. The posts about ruined childhoods and never buying He-Man toys (wtf?) are pretty weird.

The behaviour of the characters halfway through the first episode and Teelas reaction to seeing Adam again is just bizarre to the point that I can only assume it was a last minute imposed change. Which might be why Kevin seems confident despite the criticism.

[dai1983]

Currently working through this with my ten year old and really enjoying it. It's obvious that it's building up the story line a bit more and this is only the first half of the series.

Can't really remember the originals but was a big Thundercats fan and passed my figures down to the boy. I revisited that a while ago and its pretty cheesy with a load of "woke" messaging in every episode. The Thundercats reboot was way better than the 80s version.

[Sway]

dai1983 said:

Currently working through this with my ten year old and really enjoying it. It's obvious that it's building up the story line a bit more and this is only the first half of the series.

Can't really remember the originals but was a big Thundercats fan and passed my figures down to the boy. I revisited that a while ago and its pretty cheesy with a load of "woke" messaging in every episode. The Thundercats reboot was way better than the 80s version.

Yep. That stuff is (and has been for a long while) the norm in young child programming...

Crikey, who remembers Captain Planet with the 'heart ring'?

But, pretty much every episode of all the action animations was someone 'good' doing something mildly 'bad' and then realising it isn't right (with the help of good friends!) and then sorting st out.

[vladcjelli]

Sway said:

Yep. That stuff is (and has been for a long while) the norm in young child programming...

Crikey, who remembers Captain Planet with the 'heart ring'?

But, pretty much every episode of all the action animations was someone 'good' doing something mildly 'bad' and then realising it isn't right (with the help of good friends!) and then sorting st out.

Rick and Morty remember Captain Planet! Look out for the homage episode from the current series.

[anonymous-user]

dai1983 said:

Currently working through this with my ten year old and really enjoying it. It's obvious that it's building up the story line a bit more and this is only the first half of the series.

Can't really remember the originals but was a big Thundercats fan and passed my figures down to the boy. I revisited that a while ago and its pretty cheesy with a load of "woke" messaging in every episode. The Thundercats reboot was way better than the 80s version.

I vaguely remember the 1980s He Man ending every week with a naff safety warning about not playing with matches or wearing a seat belt. IIRC the Christmas spesh featured the titular hero and Skeletor joining forces to save the festive season

[Lucas Ayde]

ch37 said:

g3org3y said:

According to YouTube, gone down badly with fans.

A lot seem to be playing the 'woke' card and getting angry that there is a strong female lead. It's almost as if they've never seen the original with the PSA at the end of each episode!

I think it's more about the fact that there's very little He-Man in a show supposedly about He-Man and when this fact was actually leaked on twitter a while back, Kevin Smith got all arse-y and jumped in and had a go at the people who posted the leak, saying they were totally false. Now he looks like a complete liar. He set the scene for the current crapstorm.

It's not even like the leak was somehow massively surprising - the 'making it all about the strong, empowered woman' trope is pretty standard for the stuff churned out by US entertainment media these days and was entirely predictable, expected even. eg. They just did it with Loki and I'm sure they'll do it with Hawkeye too. What would be surprising these days is a remake that stayed pretty true to the original and didn't try to inject social politics.

[Sway]

Lucas Ayde said:

What would be surprising these days is a remake that stayed pretty true to the original and didn't try to inject social politics.

Rewatch any of the original episodes...

I think you might be in for a shock.

[glazbagun]

Man, if they made Hawkeye about a powerful woman I might actually watch it.

Yeah Kevin Smith basically lied about the leak and Teelas behavior strikes me as so WTF in the throneroom I actually wonder if someone else edited her lines from the original script.

But beyond that I thought it was decent enough.

I also found it amusing that they've replaced one difficult to obtain female form for another while Adam looks much more normal human compared to his super self.

[Radec]

dai1983 said:

Currently working through this with my ten year old and really enjoying it. It's obvious that it's building up the story line a bit more and this is only the first half of the series.

Can't really remember the originals but was a big Thundercats fan and passed my figures down to the boy. I revisited that a while ago and its pretty cheesy with a load of "woke" messaging in every episode. The Thundercats reboot was way better than the 80s version.

Mumm-ra was still a bit of a pest though.

[glazbagun]

Those thundercats outtakes were legendary.

[g3org3y]

Lucas Ayde said:

ch37 said:

g3org3y said:

According to YouTube, gone down badly with fans.

A lot seem to be playing the 'woke' card and getting angry that there is a strong female lead. It's almost as if they've never seen the original with the PSA at the end of each episode!

I think it's more about the fact that there's very little He-Man in a show supposedly about He-Man and when this fact was actually leaked on twitter a while back, Kevin Smith got all arse-y and jumped in and had a go at the people who posted the leak, saying they were totally false. Now he looks like a complete liar. He set the scene for the current crapstorm.

It's not even like the leak was somehow massively surprising - the 'making it all about the strong, empowered woman' trope is pretty standard for the stuff churned out by US entertainment media these days and was entirely predictable, expected even. eg. They just did it with Loki and I'm sure they'll do it with Hawkeye too. What would be surprising these days is a remake that stayed pretty true to the original and didn't try to inject social politics.

Bait and switch.