Saturday, 31 October 2009

Masters Of The Universe (1987)

Masters Of The Universe (or MOTU) is one of the first films I can ever remember watching from my childhood, along with the likes of Big, The Goonies and Beetlejuice (I can't for the life of me, pinpoint which was the first film I ever saw). As everyone knows it's based on the popular cartoon and comic book strips of He-Man, which in turn was made as a marketable version of Conan for little kids. Now, the live action movie is far removed from the cartoon, which was to many fans (the aforementioned little kids) chagrin. There are characters added and characters taken out, but in my opinion that did not hurt the film, as all we were bothered about waswill aid him in his plot to dominate all the galaxies. However, He-Man (Dolf Lundgren) is there to get in his way. Anyway, a small battle takes place and He-Man and co meet the extremely irritating Gwildor (Billy Barty), who has one of these "magic keys" leading to the heroes escaping to Earth. Once on the unfamiliar planet and having lost the key, He-Man comes to the rescue of Julie (Courtney Cox) who has found said key. Skeletor sends his minions to find the key and to kill He-man, ultimately leading to a big showdown and dramatic finale.

I always used to love the sound that cosmic key made, that screwed up progression of synthy notes was really wonderful to me as a child. I haven't noticed any small