Sean Fennessey

Because there's such a...

dumb guy quality to all of the characters in the Masters of the Universe story, the way that they're named specifically, that feels like it could have only come from the mind of a 10-year-old boy with a shoddy memory.

And that idea is so smart.

The way that it's told, I think the movie has a little bit of like when you're reading the biography of a famous person and you're like, can we like get past the first 15 years here a little quickly?

Like, I don't really want to spend time with young Adam.

I don't want to spend time with Adam and his job on Earth.

Like, I just let's go to Eternia and let's have battles and see Skeletor.

And so for a movie that is two hours and 20 minutes long to spend roughly 45 minutes through that, maybe more is asking a lot.

You literally can't.

do any of those things.

You can't try to understand the movie in that way.

And that might be the fatal flaw of it as a new moviegoer, right?

As somebody who's like, I don't know what this is if you're coming down.

But if you're us and you sit down and you can accept that in the same way that we can accept what I think is the movie's closest comp, which is Barbie, Greta Gerwig's Barbie.

And this movie is

is Barbie in reverse.

Because Barbie is a movie about, obviously, femininity, the glass ceiling, self-determinism, all of these big existential ideas around womanhood that Greta Gerwig is interested in.

But it's a movie about escaping the fantasy world to become real on Earth.

That is really how Barbie realizes her true self.

Adam is the flip side.