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  • Film
    Time Out Chicago / Issue 166 : May 1–7, 2008

    Worst superhero movies ever

    Batman and Robin was bad. These are worse.

    By Scott Smith

    Masters of the Universe

    There’s probably a fine dissertation to be written about America’s fascination with Dolph Lundgren in the 1980s, especially his turn from evil Russian in Rocky IV to world-saver in every other movie he was in that decade.

    Lundgren does a passable job with what he’s given (though his accent makes He-Man’s signature line sound like “Ivan the Powder!”). And Frank Langella proves nothing says “evil overlord” like gold lame.

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