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Jordan Morris

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332 total appearances

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Pop Culture Happy Hour
Masters of the Universe and What’s Making Us Happy

And ha ha ha, wouldn't that be funny if someone did that?

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Masters of the Universe and What’s Making Us Happy

And, you know, and that's to contrast with the He-Man who solves problems with swords and punching.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Masters of the Universe and What’s Making Us Happy

And at some point, this movie wants you to think that solving problems with talking is the way to go.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Masters of the Universe and What’s Making Us Happy

And maybe we've evolved more since the 80s.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Masters of the Universe and What’s Making Us Happy

And isn't it time for a new kind of He-Man that solves his problems with talking?

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Masters of the Universe and What’s Making Us Happy

And then it just has him beat a bunch of people up.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Masters of the Universe and What’s Making Us Happy

So it's not looking into that too hard, but it takes a crack at maybe investigating the kind of toxic masculinity stuff that He-Man is part of.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Masters of the Universe and What’s Making Us Happy

But it doesn't look at it that closely.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Masters of the Universe and What’s Making Us Happy

And I understand that you can't make this movie and have He-Man and Skeletor talk it out, you know, over a matcha.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Masters of the Universe and What’s Making Us Happy

I understand that's not the ending anybody wants and that would be pretty sweaty in and of itself.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Masters of the Universe and What’s Making Us Happy

But I think the fact that it spends so much time going like, isn't talking really the way to go?

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Masters of the Universe and What’s Making Us Happy

And then just turns into punching, I think just kind of points to the fact that this movie –

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Masters of the Universe and What’s Making Us Happy

Doesn't know what it's doing all of the time.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Masters of the Universe and What’s Making Us Happy

I do think that if you are a He-Man stan and you have a kid who's kind of in the pocket too, if you have a 10-year-old or something, I think this would be a fun movie to see with them.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Masters of the Universe and What’s Making Us Happy

You know, depending on how much your 10-year-old loves He-Man.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Masters of the Universe and What’s Making Us Happy

homoerotic humor.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Masters of the Universe and What’s Making Us Happy

So, you know, there's some adult jokes in this, as we've mentioned.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Masters of the Universe and What’s Making Us Happy

But, I mean, I do think that the, you know, 10-year-olds of the world will like the action, they will like the talking cat, and they will want thousands of dollars worth of toys based on this.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Masters of the Universe and What’s Making Us Happy

So I do think this could be a fun shared experience.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Masters of the Universe and What’s Making Us Happy

Yes, I would love to.