Andy McCarroll
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Podcast Appearances
And full disclosure, I have a framed Masters of the Universe poster with Dolph Lundgren in my house.
Unfortunately, that seems to be reflected in the box office as well because it is doing absolutely terrible.
There hasn't been a He-Man cartoon in about 30 years and it hasn't been kind of kept culturally relevant with things like Lego.
So like you said, the target demographic is 42 year old men like me who are going on their own and not in droves apparently.
The sad thing is, it is actually very, very good.
Obviously, I'm half in the bag already for it, but it is very watchable and I'm kind of disappointed it hasn't done well because that means we're not going to get more of them and it'll be another 30 years where I'm trying to drag my grandkids then to see He-Man.
It's 25 years since the first film, which shocked me.
It didn't punch down as much as I expected.
It looked like it was going to be that kind of Ricky Gervais style of comedy of, oh, we can't say this anymore.
It's actually surprisingly clever and it makes a lot of in jokes with the cast because the Wayans were actually fired by Harvey Weinstein after the second one.
A couple of the cast members stays on and there's a good moment where there's kind of an inquest where the Waynes brothers with the cast that stayed on basically saying like, how did you betray us like this?