Masters of the Universe review – Amazon’s He-Man adventure is a weak big-budget misfire
Benjamin Lee
A laboured attempt to resurrect toy IP very few people still care about is a $200m-budgeted waste of everyone’s time It’s not just that He-Man himself is from the 80s that gives 2026’s Masters of the Universe such an aggressive throwback vibe. It’s that trying to assemble a film around the haphazard mythology of a toy and dusting off IP that a precious few still care about feels like something Hollywood has slowly been doing a bit less of, especially on a scale such as this. This year, hits have