Universe titles, and appeared in the bodybuilding documentary Pumping Iron. America title and two consecutive IFBB Mr. As a bodybuilder, Ferrigno won an IFBB Mr. ( born November 9, 1951) is an American actor, fitness trainer, fitness consultant, and retired professional bodybuilder. A complete campy hoot.Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States ![]() Alberto Spagnoli's slick cinematography gives the movie a blindingly garish Day-Glo shine. Pino Donaggio supplies an exceptionally lively and stirring full-on orchestral score. Writer/director Luigi Cozzi once again strikes out something rotten with often sidesplitting kitschy results: the supremely asinine script (among the perils Hercules faces are a hostile upright humanoid shag rug, yucky slime people, and a tribe of ferocious Amazon women, plus we get an unnecessary recap of the creation of the universe!), liberal use of stock footage from the first flick, subpar (far from) special effects, the ludicrously serious tone, an absurdly solemn narrator, dippy 80's video game style sound effects, terrible dubbing, crummy acting (Claudio Cassinelli as a decidedly unimpressive Zeus cops the top thespic booby prize he resembles a bargain basement Santa Claus with his laughably fake white beard and wig!), ham-fisted use of strenuous slow motion, cheesy excessive rotoscoping, and a simply astounding climactic confrontation between Hercules and King Minos in outer space (Herc turns into a giant gorilla while Minos transforms into a savage dinosaur!) all add immensely to the considerable unintentional hilarity. Meanwhile, the evil and vengeful King Minos (a gloriously hammy William Berger) gets resurrected so he can settle a score with Hercules. ![]() Strong and courageous Hercule (a stiff, yet sincere performance by Lou Ferrigno and two insanely hot babes - tender psychic Urania (the delicious Milly Carlucci) and feisty Glaucia (the equally delectable Sonia Viviani) - must retrieve Zeus' seven stolen thunderbolts and thwart an attempted coup by four rebellious gods. ![]() Reviewed by Woodyanders 8 / 10 A hilariously horrendous sequel to the wonderfully wretched original Here, it's just a quick rehash, much less entertaining. The huge pathos of the first movie, trying to be monumental, is what made it so funny. This sequel is less fun because it is less ambitious. Glowing shapes that reminded me of advertising for washing powder (cleaning ghosts or something like that) attack Hercules, men in rotten rubber costumes do the same - the adversaries look a lot cheaper than those in the first movie which was already abysmal. The gods are beamed to Earth in a flash of green light with a squeaking electronic noise. The only thing I missed in the 80s video game look was a "Game over" text insert. Hercules flies around in space a lot (this is after all a movie by the director of "Star Crash") and beats monsters painted by a five year old: Rotoscoping at its worst. One for example is hidden inside an electric fire monster he must hit on the head to cause a short circuit. Assisted by two young ladies (Milly Carlucci, Sonia Viviani), Hercules looks for the lost 7 thunderbolts of Zeus. "Great deeds make us immortal." - "We can't all be so fortunate." Indeed, so this didn't help anyone's career, I presume. Reviewed by unbrokenmetal 2 / 10 Hercules returns to the space disco
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