Platicsco Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

FuzzyTagz If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

Geraldine The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

SensibleSam Lou was awesome in this 80's flick of awesomeness!! The entire cast was great too! I just really enjoyed this movie and will watch it over and over again. Movies today have lost their substance so I'm an older movie fanatic!! Two thumbs way up!!❤️❤️❤️ FYI Lou still looks great!! The effects were good for the 80's and the story came together very well! I love the costumes, dialogue and effects. I love any movie with Lou in it frankly but this one's my top favorite and all his other movies come right after that! This a good Sunday family time movie. I watched it with my teen boys and even they agree that for the time, the story and overall movie was awesome! I highly recommend this film to cinema buffs. I don't like to call these movies b- movies or whatever because they all tried to be great movies, it's just sad some folks can't see through the era and truly enjoy the movie. So get the family on the couch, get some popcorn and press play on the Hercules movie!!

Bezenby What was you're favourite bit of this film? When Hercules threw the bear into space? Or when Hercules threw that log into space? Or maybe the bit where Hercules managed to throw HIMSELF into space? This film is grade A Italian madness from the first second to last.I'm no stranger to Luigi Cozzi. I loved Contamination, Demons 6, and especially Starcrash, but I think he's outdone himself here. You see, you can't say Luigi hasn't got a great imagination, because he has, what you can say is that he's never quite been given the budget to cover that imagination, so what you get is, well, Hercules.After a brain damaging disco style birth of the universe, we cut to Zeus on the moon who decides to send mankind a hero to sort everything out, and thus Herc is born. After being adopted, he grows into Lou Ferrigno, who sets out to find his place in the world after his mother is killed by a giant mechanical fly.This brings him in contact with Cassieopea, her dad, a King Minos who's out to get Herc on behalf of the Goddess Hera. Never mind the plot though, because Luigi has nearly every second of this film filled with insane visuals and crazy special effects. See: Herc crossing a rainbow to get to Hades, a giant animated hand catching baby Herc falling from a waterfall, Herc growing to gigantic proportions to renders continents apart, a giant robotic centaur, swords made of rainbows and on and on and on. It's endless! The campest hero film I've ever seen (and I'm just about to watch the sequel).Check out the roster of stars here: Claudio Cassanelli (Flavia the Heretic, Atomic Cyborg), Gianni Garko (Waterloo, some spaghetti westerns), Marrella D'Angela (Tenebrae and Maya), William Berger (The Spider Labyrinth and also Maya), Bobby Rhodes (Demons and The Last Hunter), (something) Garolfo from Zombie Creeping Flesh and Eyes Behind the Stars) and Billy from Adventure Time, Lou Ferrigno himself! And he's got the biggest boobs in the film.Highly, highly recommended by me. My four year old loved it too.

windypoplar Hercules directed and written by Luigi Cozzi stars the great Lou Ferrigno as the title character and takes great liberties with his story. It's aimed squarely at kids, with its colorful characters and even more colorful special effects. What i liked about it was the steady pacing, the absolutely weird musical cues and Lou's solid, if perhaps too straight performance.Forget all you know about Herc, this film stands on its own. Some of the old tale is here, baby Herc does crush snakes sent by his stepmother Hera and he does grow up peacefully not knowing why he's so strong. An early battle with a giant bear is well-shot. Lou certainly looks the part, unlike some other actors who tried and he isn't that bad with the dialog, which is very ripe. In this version Herc's great love is Casseopeia, played by the very easy to look at Ingrid Andersson. I so wanted to get that veil off her face! Herc must win her hand by competing in a series of bizarre rites of Strong. Including the classic cleaning of the stables. Which is a great sequence using miniatures and super-imposition. Even the rocks look heavy and real for a change! Still Zeus, and at least one actor, Claudio Casselinni, was understated, wants the sides of good and evil to be balanced, so Herc and Cass are separated.Not to fear, Herc soon hooks up with sorceress Circe, played by another beauty in a barely there outfit. She aid him in his celestial quest to conquer the evil of Thera and save Cass from being a virgin(!) sacrifice! The set for Thera, the green isle of Atlantis actually, is one of the best I've seen outside of Star Wars: Episode IV, its truly a great work of lighting and miniature sets, complete with a flame-wielding colossus. Herc's great strength is no match for the witch Adriana (called Ariana in my version,) played by the buxom Sybil Danning, but his great heart is, he's loyal to Cass. This all leads to a duel with the evil King Minos, who wants science to rule the world at the expense of all emotion. Their duel with Herc wielding the sword of Zeus and Minos the fire sword of Atlantis is great. The finale is spectacular and I love Herc's ending line to the rescued Cass. and check her final outfit, wow! "How do I know you're really Casseopeia? Or are you Adriana is another form or Circe reborn?" She responds "I am all and none of them. I am the one who loves you!"Cool movie, what I didn't like was the cheesy robots, they simply looked bad! Also why was Daedelus, the God who helps Minos, played by a woman? Some elements of the plot were confusing. Still this a great family adventure, the hero is great the girls are lovely and there is nothing objectionable save some light violence. If you're looking for a fun movie that doesn't require too much brain power, this is it!

r-c-s action mainly consists in retarded, muscled-up Hercules ( check the variety of facial expressions ) wrestling cheap robot toys (the garage sale variety ) in papier-mache studio sets thought to be impressive...but there is only so much one can do with $100 worth of carton boxes.Acting is slightly better than the sequel, but still the best thing is a silly "lat spread". SFX are laughable, mainly with poor film quality and awful superposition effects.Plot is paper thin. The beginning of the movie clearly mocks Conan the barbarian, and other movies. Some exteriors are shot at night in roman ruins in the Italian countryside i suppose.There are catastrophe scenes, but toy miniature cities look terribly fake and guards battling Hercules look like 60yo out of shape from a nursing home.Pretty women in scant dresses are a plus, but not enough to save this amateurish C grade waste of money.SFX make other tier-II Italian salad bowl movies such as L'UMANOIDE & STAR CRASH look like masterpieces.Well, considering that Ferrigno's main acting exploit consisted in impersonating a retarded green monster, wearing a whig and green espadrillas, we ought to be lenient.Watch it & forget about it.