MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE (2026)

Name: MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE (2026)
Item: MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE (2026)
Author: Review

"Marred by Inappropriate Innuendo and Some Magical Thinking"

Family Content: -2 Extreme caution for older teenagers and adults.

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MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE is an exciting, funny, crowd-pleasing fantasy adventure, with a science fiction twist. Based on the 1980s cartoon series about He-Man, the movie opens with the evil sorcerer, Skeletor, attacking the Kingdom of Eternia and defeating Prince Adam’s father, King Radnor. Skeletor craves the Kingdom’s Sword of Power. However, when he tries to take it, the King’s wisest advisor, who understands the mysteries of the universe, sends Prince Adam and the Sword of Power to Earth. Fifteen years later, Adam has lost the sword, but he retrieves it and returns to Eternia. Can he rally the dispirited citizens, use the Sword, defeat Skeletor, and restore his father’s kingdom?

MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE is an exhilarating, amusing popcorn movie with strong uplifting moral, redemptive, pro-family content. Also, Prince Adam is an admirable hero who offers the villains a chance to lay down their arms and establish peace. However, MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE has some magical thinking and lots of strong action violence. It’s also marred by some light obscenities, a strong profanity and a few lewd, gratuitous innuendoes meriting extreme caution.

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Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements:

Strong mixed pagan worldview with a somewhat false premise that the power is “within you” rather than in a magical item (this sounds a little but like magical thinking), but mitigated by strong moral, pro-family elements where hero embraces his kidnapped parents and restores their kingdom, and helps female lead redeem her father and reconcile, and leads the fight to overcome a demonic tyrannical sorcerer, plus redemptive elements where hero is a savior has a symbolic death and resurrection and tries to encourage the villains to repent and make peace and, when the main villain asks hero why he doesn’t use his full superpower, the hero says he doesn’t want to do that, but there are some comical and gratuitous homosexual innuendoes and a minor, wise heroine character is called a “sorceress” but she sometimes looks like an angel of light

Foul Language:

11 obscenities (including an “s: word and some “h,” d” and “a” words), one GD profanity, three light profanities (two OMG profanities and one OG profanity)

Violence:

Lot of strong fantasy action violence includes many intense fight scenes, good guys and bad guys fire weapons at one another, villains subdue good guys and vice versa, chase scenes, many explosions, and much destruction

Sex:

No sex scenes or implied sexuality, but there’s at least one innuendo about a magical sword, and a few comical homosexual innuendoes having to do with two character nicknames (for example, one character is named “Ram Man”, and the character is embarrassed by it, though the person who uses the nickname is innocent of its off-color meaning)

Nudity:

No nudity

Alcohol Use:

A father’s failure to protect the royal family has made him a drunken loser 15 years later, and he offers a drink from a flask to the young adult hero who declines and then the older man takes a drink (the man’s daughter is ashamed of him, but he reforms)

Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse:

No smoking or drugs; and,

Miscellaneous Immorality:

Villain holds adult hero’s parents hostage and threatens them.

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MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE is an exciting, funny, crowd-pleasing fantasy adventure, with a science fiction twist, about a prince who was exiled to Earth, but finds the missing “Sword of Power” and returns to his home planet of Eternia to take back his father’s kingdom from the evil warrior sorcerer Skeletor. MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE is an exhilarating, amusing popcorn movie with some uplifting moral, redemptive, pro-family content, but the movie has some magical thinking and lots of strong action violence and is marred by some light obscenities, a strong profanity and a few lewd, gratuitous innuendoes meriting extreme caution.

The movie opens with young Prince Adam of the planet Eternia chafing under his father, King Randor’s, demand that Adam be able to defend himself against the myriad villains threatening the Kingdom. Prince Adam is a gentle soul, but he admires Duncan, the Man-at-Arms training the children of Eternia, and Duncan’s adopted daughter, Teela.

They all get a lesson in the necessity of defense when the evil sorcerer, Skeletor, attacks the Kingdom and subdues the King, despite all of Duncan’s efforts to protect the royal family. Skeletor craves the Sword of Power, but when he tries to take it, Teela’s mother, a powerful and wise sorceress, sends Prince Adam and the Sword of Power to Earth.

Fifteen years later, Prince Adam has lost the sword and is searching for it. Working a dead-end desk job, Adam searches for the Sword of Power on the internet. A mysterious man writes Adam, saying he knows where Adam can find it, and the location turns out to be a display in a toy store for collectibles.

Adam steals the sword and runs off, but that triggers alarms back on Eternia. An adult Teela appears and tries to take Prince Adam back to her spaceship. However, Skeletor has sent one of his monsters after the sword too. Adam and Teela barely escape.

Back on Eternia, the question becomes: can Adam trigger the awesome powers of the sword and take back his father’s kingdom from Skeletor and his minions? Perhaps he can, but he must rally the dispirited people of Eternia to help him.

This new incarnation of MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE has lots of exciting action, fun performances, and many funny lines and situations. All of this creates an exhilarating blend of action and comedy.

Even better, MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE has some moral, redemptive content. It supports family, and close relationships between parents and children. Also, Prince Adam, the hero, is a righteous young man who offers peace to his enemies. Of course, Skeletor is too evil and proud, so justice eventually must be done and his father’s kingdom restored. As a hero, Prince Adam is also clearly a Savior figure.

However, in the final act, Prince Adam learns that the power that transforms him is within him and not in the allegedly magical sword. The sword only focuses his power. This mystical outcome seems a little bit like magical thinking.

Also, MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE has lots of strong action violence and is marred by some light obscenities, a strong profanity and a few lewd, gratuitous innuendoes meriting extreme caution.