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The Masters of the Universe\u00a0reviews are here.<\/p>\n
The live-action movie from\u00a0Amazon MGM Studios\u00a0and\u00a0Mattel Studios, based on the iconic franchise, will hit U.S. theaters on Friday (June 5).<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s the official synopsis: \u201cIn\u00a0Masters of the Universe, director\u00a0Travis Knight\u00a0brings the legendary franchise back to the big screen in this epic live-action adventure. After being separated for 15 years, the Sword of Power leads Prince Adam (Nicholas Galitzine) back to Eternia where he discovers his home shattered under the fiendish rule of Skeletor (Jared Leto). To save his family and his world, Adam must join forces with his closest allies, Teela (Camila Mendes) and Duncan\/Man-At-Arms (Idris Elba), and embrace his true destiny as He-Man \u2014 the most powerful man in the universe.<\/p>\n
But what are the critics saying about the new movie?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Masters of the Universe has a 73% Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes<\/p>\n
The movie currently has a 73% Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes.<\/a><\/p>\n The Los Angeles Times says: \u201cLeto\u2019s grumbling Brit-inflected baritone is an unrecognizable concoction of trilled r\u2019s and plummy vowels \u2014 and the best performance he\u2019s done in years.\u201d<\/p>\n Slant gave it 1.5 out of 4, writing: \u201cThe film buries its heartening Barbie-style deconstruction under every terrible action-comedy instinct plaguing modern blockbuster filmmaking.\u201d<\/p>\n The New York Post gave it 3 out of 4, saying: \u2018No, this decidedly summer flick, directed by Travis Knight, was made solely for your amusement. It\u2019s fun, helium light and doesn\u2019t have a single thought in its dumb head.\u201d<\/p>\n Associated Press gives it 2 out of 4, saying: \u201cThe movie might have worked better if it had just gone full Saturday morning cartoon with fewer self-deprecating jokes. But that would have required more conviction about what everyone was making in the first place.\u201d<\/p>\n IndieWire gave it a C+, saying: \u201cGalitzine isn\u2019t the comedic tour de force that Gosling was in the \u201cBarbie\u201d movie, but he\u2019s sweet and vacuous in a way that beautifully suits a story about a blond idiot trying to wrestle Olympus away from a power-mad skeleton.\u201d<\/p>\n Boston Globe gives it a 2.5 out of 4, writing: \u201cThe result is a watchable, if overlong, replica of the \u201cHe-Man\u201d cartoon. A film made with this much love would have been right up my alley when I was 13. Alas, I\u2019m no longer a teenager.\u201d<\/p>\n Guardian gave it a 2 out of 5, saying: \u201cThere\u2019s just too much distracting confusion here \u2014 from Galitzine\u2019s unsure performance to the script\u2019s swirl of competing tones to the very question of why this needed to exist \u2014 for it to transport us as we both hope and expect.\u201d<\/p>\n USA Today gave it 3 out of 4, saying: \u201cThere\u2019s enough infectious energy and heart to give this sugar-bombed throwback a mainstream appeal more sizable than Galitzine\u2019s impressive deltoids.\u201d<\/p>\n Variety says: \u2018Travis Knight\u2018s film is so loaded with jokes about its own out-of-time uncoolness that it occasionally seems to be apologizing for its very existence.\u201d<\/p>\n Empire gave it 3 out of 5, saying: \u201cA delightfully silly film for a perfectly stupid franchise. It could have had a few sharper lines and more narrative drive, but this should still win over a new generation of He-fans.\u201d<\/p>\n See the stars of the movie hit the red carpet for the premiere!<\/a><\/p>\n Posted To:He-man<\/a> Masters of the Universe<\/a> Movies<\/a> Reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Credit: Amazon MGM Studios The Masters of the Universe\u00a0reviews are here. The live-action movie from\u00a0Amazon MGM Studios\u00a0and\u00a0Mattel Studios,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":621139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-621138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}