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Arnold Schwarzenegger,
Arnold Schwarzenegger,
Arnold Stang,
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Arthur A. Seidelman,
Arthur A. Seidelman
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: Lions Gate
: Cult, Adventure, Golden Turkeys, Fantasy, Fairy Tales & Myths
: 91 min.
: English, Spanish, French, German
: English, Spanish, French
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Every movie star has to start somewhere, and Arnold Schwarzenegger, then little-known outside of body building circles, made his screen debut in this comic variation on the "sword and sandal" epics popular in the 1950's and '60's. Hercules (Schwarzenegger) has grown tired of his life on Mount Olympus, and wishes to visit Earth. His father Zeus (Ernest Graves) forbids such a voyage, but a misdirected thunderbolt sends Hercules tumbling down the mountain and into New York City, where he's befriended by Pretzie (Arnold Stang), who runs a pretzel cart in the park. As Hercules tries to make his way in the big city with Pretzie's help, he runs afoul of a crooked wresling promoter, gets mixed up with gangsters, rides his chariot through Times Square, descends into Hell, and dines at the Automat (which some contend is not unlike descending into Hell). Just as Hercules is getting used to life on Earth, his angry father decides it's time the boy came home, and Zeus sends Nemesis (Taina Elg) and a handful of other gods to retrieve him. For the original American release of Hercules In New York, Arnold Schwarzenegger was billed as Arnold Strong, and his voice was dubbed by another actor to remove his accent; when the film was re-released on video in 2000, Schwarzenegger's original vocal tracks were restored, though the dubbed version appears on several previous video releases. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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by Dwoodwoo
June 5, 2003 - 1:23 PM PDT
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10 out of 10 members found this review helpful
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I know what you're thinking: "What in the h*ll is a guy who owns a video service with 10,000+ titles in arm's reach doing watching 'Hercules in New York'?"
Well, life's full of guilty pleasures.
Basically, oldkingcole, csullivan and I got together to watch Children of Dune on the big screen here at the GreenCine offices. Didn't want to distract from our take-out Tu Lan dinner while watching the feature presentation so I rummaged through our collection for appropriate watch-it-and-forget-it fare. Found 'Hercules in New York' in our return pile (which means some other GC member is guilty of having seen this too), so we tossed that on. Immediate winning factors: Pretty good transfer (considering it was a 1970 B film!) and Ahn-nold is NOT dubbed -- you're getting 100%, unadulterated Ahn-noldisms in this flick. Movie starts with a winning line that goes something like "Out of the shroud of myth and history, combining into mystery..." which sent us into hysterics. 'Herc' is a fish-out-of-water buddy movie, your basic Splash!/E.T. storyline...but the joy is seeing pre-Terminator, pre-Conan, pre-Pumping Iron Anh-nold utter classic lines like "Bucks? Dough? Why are you talking about male and female deer?" Some pretty good trash-talking of Apollo too. And the romantic one-liners are a scream as well. Veteran character actor Arnold Stang gives a heartfelt performance (really!) as Anh-nold's New York buddy. To our surprise, we found this movie paced very well, esp. for a B movie, and without intending to, we watched the whole thing.
Essential viewing if you're working your way through the Ahn-nold canon -- much more enjoyable than some of the Big A's lesser movies like Commando or Red Heat. Not a B-movie with the social commentary level of, say, a Death Race 2000 or a Dawn of the Dead, but a treat nonetheless. You'd have to have a hard heart not to get a chuckle out of this one. |
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