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Masters Of The Universe Is A Fun Throwback To When Good Guys Were Good And Bad Guys Were Bad

Besides its anti-woke themes, Masters of the Universe is one of the few modern movies that seems to actually be having fun. It understands what kind of movie it is and embraces it.

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Given how far to the left Hollywood now is, a faithful adaptation of He-Man — powerful, competent, good — should be impossible. Prince Adam, you would think, would be given the same treatment Luke Skywalker and Indiana Jones and Captain Kirk and James Bond have received.

And if you saw the marketing for Masters of the Universe, you probably thought that was the path Amazon/MGM had chosen. Director Travis Knight’s assertion that Skeletor was an example of “toxic masculinity” and other asinine comments made it seem like Amazon and MGM were only interested in seeing how many humiliation rituals they could put He-Man through, same as Kevin Smith did in the horrendous Masters of the Universe: Revelation Netflix series.

This probably is part of the reason why Masters of the Universe is a box-office disaster, making only (as of this writing) $54 million worldwide on a $200 million budget (not counting marketing). People, naturally, assumed it was more of what Hollywood has been serving and passed. Fortunately, the left hand obviously did not know what the right hand was doing since the marketing assertions have no bearing on reality.

Upon returning to his home on the magical planet of Eternia after witnessing its destruction and spending 15 years in exile, Prince Adam (Nicholas Galitzine) turns to his childhood friend, Camila Mendes’ Teela, and asks, “Why would [Skeletor] do this?”

Because he’s the bad guy, she replies. “There has to be more to it than that,” Adam protests. “He has a skull for a face,” Teela says.

Because he’s the bad........

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