Hercules (1988 Video) User Reviews

Baffling

[Rectangular_businessman · 1/10 · 24 November 2022]

The animation, the voice acting, the script...Every single aspect from this is absolutely baffling from beginning to end.

I find a little bit hard to believe this was done in 1988, since it seems way too "ahead of its time" in the worst possible manner, predating a lot of awful trends present in many animated mockbusters from later decades.

Not even the cheapest saturday morning cartoon from that era was as poorly made as this movie.

It feels like a mockbuster version of Disney's Hercules a long time before Disney's Hercules was even a thing. (Assuming, of course, the 1988 date is a mistake from imdb part, and this movie was actually made in 1998, which would be much easier to believe)

Edit: I did a little bit more of research, and turns out that my suspicions were right. This was made in the nineties (Somewhere around the year 1997). So this was one of the many mockbusters animated versions of Hercules from the same decade after all.

What do you think?

[thedecimator1337 · 10/10 · 6 October 2014]

This is, by unanimous decision of all who know about it, the Best Hercules Movie Ever. Whenever someone refers to the best Hercules, it is always by Best Hercules. Not Heracles or Herakles or whatever, but Best Hercules. OK, it may not be that good, but it sure beats Disney's. Disney made, back in the year, a trashy Las Vegas In Greece sort of film which made a sorry attempt to fetch in some cash. Ew... Now then: basically you have the story of Hercules. This Hercules is the best. That's still not very good, but there you have it. Spoilers? This is the ultimate late arrival spoiler. This story is thousands of years old and -OK, just forget it. Remember those terrible dollar store movies you saw as a kid that tried to adapt the Bible? This is way better, yet worse at the same time. Way better (still abysmal, yet the best) in that... well, it simply is. Its animation is slightly better and its acting is better, although by 0.1. On the other hand, it's still a trashy dollar store movie with repeated animations which aren't that good to begin with. And it's Greek mythology. It can therefore be painful to watch, but it won't make your eyes bleed or cause gastrointestinal exorcism as your Disney version did. 11/10 would celebrate using iconic arms-pose again Ironically, Best Hercules made his big appearance in The Frollo Show, and not in his own movie. Relying on animated web fanfiction? Really scraping the bottom of the barrel here, but at least he earned it. The trashy Vegas Hercules only made it because he had Disney attached to his name. Sheer luck, handed down to him.