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Summary: FANTASTIC!
Review: This is a great fantasy comic book movie! Marc Singer is excellent and this made me want to see more of his work and his performances are quality stuff. Tanya is a beauty. Great movie!
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Summary: Hammy story, and acting....
Review: Anchor Bay Entertainment is a rather unuseual maker of DVDs on film. Their movie library is made up mostly of B-Horror Movies, B-Science Fiction Films, cheap dramas and comedies. In short they mostly own movies that no other studio wants to have because they are so incredibly bad. The kinds of movies that make Japaneese monster films look good by comparison. Anyway this movie is among them. It's no wonder that Marc Singer never took as an actor. he's bad and he can't act.
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Summary: Who Doesn't Remember This One??
Review: If you were a yungun in the early to mid 80s and had HBO or just regular cable, it was impossible for you to miss The Beastmaster. This film will forever be part of your subconscious due to those childhood viewings. How could you ever forget the eyeball in the ring? Or a naked swimming woman in a PG film? Kodo and Podo? The scary guy with the leather mask and green eyes? Or those gruesome, creepy bat people who wrap you in their wings and eat ya? This film is pure nostalgia and is still entertaining after all these years and many, many viewings. Sure, some complain that this film is cheesy(obviously they didn't grow up with the film). Of course! Sure, 80s sword and sorcery flicks are easy targets for that, but so what? You trying to tell me there's no cheese in Lord Of The Rings? Or Hercules and Xena? Come on, Beastmaster is no more or less. At least the guys who made these films(Beastmaster, Conan, Deathstalker, etc.), made them with grittiness. These aren't for kids, folks. Beastmaster may be rated PG, but give it another viewing and ask yourself how it slipped by the ratings board with that rating. A kid gets thrown into a pit of fire for crying out loud! But this film is great, and the dvd is great as well-not to mention a decent price.
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Summary: YEAH, IT'S A CONAN IMITATION, BUT SO WHAT!
Review: I'LL BE THE 1ST TO ADMIT THAT THIS MOVIE IS NOTHING SHORT OF A CONAN IMITATION. BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN IT AIN'T GOOD. IN THIS MOVIE, A SWORDSMAN [MARC SINGER] SETS OUT TO BATTLE A SORCERER [RIP TORN] WHO'S RESPONSIBLE FOR THE MURDER OF HIS FATHER. I DON'T CARE WHAT CRITICS SAY, THIS MOVIE IS VERY GOOD AND IT REALLY DOESN'T GET ALL THE CREDIT THIS MOVIE DESERVES. ONLY BAD POINT IS THE ROMANTIC SUBPLOT BETWEEN MARC SINGER AND TANYA ROBERTS. OTHER THAN THAT, A VERY GOOD SWORD AND SORCERY MOVIE. SCREW THE CRITICS, GO CHECK IT OUT. FOLLOWED BY TWO SEQUELS.
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Summary: ABYSMAL...
Review: I have one question to those that have given this movie 4 and 5 stars....What are you smoking? Following the success of Conan the Barbarian, fantasy and swords & Sorcery films flooded the market. A very few were good...most, like Beastmaster, were terrible.In Marc Singer and Tanya Roberts, you have two of the biggest airheads to ever grace the silver screen. Or perhaps, disgrace would be the better choice of words. Oh sure, both look great in their skimpy outfits, but all goes to hell when they actuall have to speak. This is B-movie at it's worst. Bad acting, horribly written, boring... There's a reason the works of Robert E. Howard, Fritz Leiber, and J.R.R. Tolkein have endured for decades...not everyone can write fantasy...
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Summary: Unbelievable Beast Master Comes through
Review: This film is slow. Give it a chance to get going and you will enjoy it. Billy Jacoby as the young Beast Master is almost missed. Watch for him near the beginning. The movie is slow and filled with battles and romance. The battles with the adult Beast Master are entertaining if somewhat unbelievable. I like Tal the boy prince. He should have had a more powerful voice and been more forceful but at the end of the movie when he almost dies he does come through. I think he could have handled the part better. Overall an awesome movie. I really liked it.
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Summary: Classic 80's Fantasy Film!
Review: The Beastmaster is one of those movies that I remember watching as a kid anytime it was on TV. Recently I was scanning HBO, and saw that they were showing it, and I couldn't believe it! It doesn't matter what anyone says about this classic movie, it still is enjoyable and entertaining to watch. It will definitely be part of my DVD library very soon!
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Summary: Highly Underrated
Review: I will give it's many (vicious) critics this, "The Beastmaster" isn't Shaskpeare. It is, however, a great fantasy adventure. It will be compared to "Conan the Barbarian", and that isn't fair, because it is it's own movie. The story is set in fantasy world long in Earth's past. A young warrior with the ability to talk to animals gose on a quest for an evil wizard. Yeah yeah yeah, same ol same ol. Ok, so it's not the most origanal plot in history, but so what, it dose try for stuff never seen before (a human being born of a cow!!! How often do you see that?) It dose seem silly, and maybe it is, but that is it's charm.
The acting, well, Marc Singer comes from the David Hasselhoff school of non-acting, that's a shame. But everyone else is pretty good. The special effects are cheesy, yes. But to be fair, I am not a fan of CGI, so all the rubber suited monsters did impress me, sort of. You can tell that is a lower budeted movie, and that's alright too. Over all, the producers did the best they could with what they had, and came out with a movie much better than "Conan the Destroyor", "Red Sonjia", or "Kull the Conquror".
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Summary: This is NOT widescreen
Review: Be warned! This edition is not presented in Widescreen as advertised. The manufacturer only put a black band across the top and bottom of the full screen edition. I know, I've seen the VHS edition from the 80s and saw the movie in the theaters. The DVD was made by Anchor Bay. In a side note, a friend purchased a copy of Space Camp which was also made by Anchor Bay. To her surprise it was blank. The Beastmaster case also claims to include a "16 page booklet of orginal preproduction sketches and liner notes" which is no where to be found. All in all this edition was very, very disappointing. I will not buy anything else from Anchor Bay Entertainment. They are misleading their customers. If they had choosen to not make a widescreen edition they should have just left it full screen instead of lying to the public. I'd give the movie a 4 except for the DVD presentation.
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Summary: Right Up There with Tarzan and other Myths!
Review: This movie is as timeless as forever. Marc Singer makes the fable live. The Beastmaster is just one of those totally watchable movies and a family favorite. I don't care how many times it comes on television, I love to watch it. The only weakness is some thin acting by Tanya Roberts. Cinematography by John Alcott adds to the overall golden feel. The animals are great. Rip Torn does an expert job of portraying the mental absence of fanaticism. And just for the fact that there's a treasurable Vanna Bonta cameo appearance is enough to make this a collector's keeper.
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