Masters of the Universe (2026)
ACTION/FANTASY Rated 12A Spoiler Free Are you a fella in your forties? If so, great, I have the film for you! Masters of the Universe 's hero He-Man’s genesis is design by necessity . Toy company Mattel ( Barbie , Hot Wheels) missed out on the Star Wars figures contract in 1976 and rolled the dice on a freakishly muscular Arian Adam and a world of now iconic (to a certain demographic) motley crew of oddity superheroes. It is, and has always been, as if Star Wars had IVF with Lord of the Rings and DC Comics spunked into the test tube. Before the film rolled in the cinema, there was a toy commercial which was deliberately very 80’s. I want a toy Mummy, I want a toyyyyyyy. In fact, I had a He-Man toy which I was obsessed with and its leg got snapped off just below the knee. I think my sister did it but it was thirty five years ago and I’ve forgiven her. My Grandad said he’d fix him and unceremoniously melted a metal pegleg onto it, which was more traumatic than just the disarticula...
