A very feeble attempt at affirmatie action

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

There's no doubt that this is a cheesy movie and not something I would recommend. At the same time, some of the goofy looking sets actually came off as a bit appealing. I guess it helps that Lou Ferrigno is a pretty appealing actor. This really has little do with Greek mythology or at least the story of Hercules. Come to think of, Disney's Hercules wasn't much about the actual mythology either. It ended up being better because it had a lot more spirit.The dumbest thing is probably how the villain uses giant robots. Honestly, this stuff is so ridiculous it makes "Power Rangers" look highbrow. Well, it actually was kind of entertaining with how colorful everything was. I probably should hate this movie, but I'll admit it was somewhat amusing. There have actually been a lot of bad Hercules movies out there, especially "The Legend Of Hercules". It just has too goofy a setup to like, but for me it wasn't horrible. **

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.

Cheesy greatness from Cannon and those geniuses Golan-Globus combines post-Star Wars science fantasy with 1960s Italian sword & sandal movies. The pre-credits history of the universe is highly informative. I never realized that's how it all came to be. My teachers were liars. Lou Ferrigno is an impressive sight to behold, for sure. Each of his pecs is bigger than my head. Zeus looks like Jon Stewart with a crown and fake beard. Sexy Sybil Danning isn't in this nearly enough but is enjoyable when she is. Ingrid Anderson is gorgeous and her revealing outfit in the latter half of the movie made me drool.The dubbing, special effects, sets, and costumes are all cheap but fun. The stop-motion mechanical monsters are beyond cute. The highlights of the movie are Hercules' many impressive feats of strength, such as hurling a bear into space and creating the constellation Ursa Major or pushing apart two bodies of land and creating the continents of Europe and Africa. Again, my teachers were liars. Watch baby Hercules kill the snakes -- that poor baby didn't understand what the heck they had him doing! This is an entertaining movie. I really don't see how you cannot find it fun to watch. Granted, most of that fun comes from the unintentional comedy it produces but that's still something, right? If I have to watch a movie that is technically and artistically lacking in any kind of quality, I would rather it be a movie like this that has some comedic value than some boring A-list movie that has me sitting on my hands the whole time.

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.