Are you kidding me??? Get off of your high horses and put yourself back in 1983. What was the competition? Strawberry Shortcake? My Little Pony? Seriously, give Lou Scheimer a break. I personally LOVED the series as a young girl about 7-8 years old, and now thanks to Netflix am reliving it. I had the BIGGEST grin on my face when I heard He-Man say "I have the powerrrrr" again...nothing can take you back like watching old cartoons that you loved. I have three daughters-ranging from 4-11 who harass me about when the next He-Man is coming in the mail. I am ordering action figures as requested by my husband off of Ebay for Christmas. Ain't it great to be a kid again? I love it. This is really what cartoons should be-simple, entertaining, fun, and yes-laughable at times. I think the moral at the end was fantastic and I wish all shows had it. I also loved Fat Albert for that reason, especially now that I have kids. Perhaps He-Man and Bill Cosby helped mould me into the fine, upstanding person I am today. :) ROCK ON MOTU!!!!!

Funny when you look back at something that you absolutely loved as a child isn't it? As I was one when this aired I used to watch this show religiously, I was part of the fan club for a while and had pretty much all the toys; then it went off the air. And although I had a few videos of the show I never really watched them, preferring to watch new cartoons on the box. In some small way, I think I always knew how bad this show was, its just difficult to let go of your childhood icon.

As I began to start drawing and later animating, I brought animated shows on DVD, this was one I wished I hadn't. Time and an educated eye have done wonders for the realisation of just how bad this show was. The animation is on par with Captain Pugwash of all things, but where the Captain had a distinct air of British style that flew in spite of its budget limitations, He-Man just looks silly. Filmation famously stated that all its animation was done in it home of the USA. Nice sentiment, apart from the fact that those other companies that used overseas labour actually managed to in-between their work. Not stand them so close to the screen so they only had to move their mouths. When the show is animated it merely uses a library of stock footage for walks, runs and attacks are mindlessly repeated and even rotoscoped over each other so that different characters moved in the exact same way as other characters. That's not to mention the Adam-to-He-Man-Transformation sequence, which consists of Adam/He-Man standing there while special effect overkill occurs.

Almost all the male characters all look like they were on steroids, even Prince Adam, who supposedly is a teen (a little investigation shows that to save money his model was the same as He-Man's). The cast was immense bordering on insane, with some of the most ridiculous names set to celluloid, Two-Bad, Buzz-Off, Fisto... right. The only thing still left for me are the backgrounds, unfortunately they repeat as well, for areas that are suppose to be on different sides of Eternia. Plots, well Skeletor, or whoever wants something, usually Grayskull, use their incompetent cohorts to try and get it; He-Man and co stop them.

Oh and there's those patronising moral message things at the end of every episode.

For the nostalgic only, everyone else should leave well alone.

Utter garbage from Filmation during the period when they employed writers who thought Ralph Bakshi's 'Fire and Ice' was intellectually challenging. Laughably stupid, with characters whose shallowness makes 'Conan the Barbarian' seem like 'American Beauty'. Every existing copy of this tripe deserves to be either blown up or eaten by Locusts. Doesn't deserve a review, whch is why this isn't one. Doesn't deserve to have even existed. Its creators are hiding from the Hague Animation Tribunal. It makes the thought of 'Yogi's Treasure Hunt' almost pleasant. This series was played to five year-old Kalahari Bushmen, and they said "What is this rubbish? And what is this television thing? It's not even Plasma or LCD. You think just because we're 'primitive' you can fob this junk off on us."