This combined version doesn't have its own IMDb page so I'm reviewing it here.
Animated 'movie' which although released direct-to-video (the copy I watched was actually a scan of the original VHS), had a special premiere at Mann's Chinese Theatre, Los Angeles. It's a compilation of three episodes from season one of the original He-Man and the Masters of the Universe TV show; Diamond Ray of Disappearance, Teela's Quest, and Colossor Awakes, and runs at just over an hour. The three storylines aren't connected (they weren't even adjacent when originally broadcast), but there are some effective framing and connecting sequences, as the Sorceress addresses the audience to give background on some of the characters - via Castle Grayskull's secret 'Gallery of Living Pictures'!
The animation looks a little cruder than that of He-Man and She-Ra: The Secret of the Sword (1985), and (like that movie) the voice acting is very obviously 'Saturday morning cartoon'. But the stories themselves are pretty good and imaginative (my favourite is probably Teela's Quest - written by Paul Dini of BTAS fame - which hits the heartstrings a little more than the others). Interesting that the child friendly PSAs the TV broadcaster was required to append at the end of each episode are all absent from this version. Enjoyable (and a good, convenient primer for anyone who has never seen the show). 7/10.
Animated 'movie' which although released direct-to-video (the copy I watched was actually a scan of the original VHS), had a special premiere at Mann's Chinese Theatre, Los Angeles. It's a compilation of three episodes from season one of the original He-Man and the Masters of the Universe TV show; Diamond Ray of Disappearance, Teela's Quest, and Colossor Awakes, and runs at just over an hour. The three storylines aren't connected (they weren't even adjacent when originally broadcast), but there are some effective framing and connecting sequences, as the Sorceress addresses the audience to give background on some of the characters - via Castle Grayskull's secret 'Gallery of Living Pictures'!
The animation looks a little cruder than that of He-Man and She-Ra: The Secret of the Sword (1985), and (like that movie) the voice acting is very obviously 'Saturday morning cartoon'. But the stories themselves are pretty good and imaginative (my favourite is probably Teela's Quest - written by Paul Dini of BTAS fame - which hits the heartstrings a little more than the others). Interesting that the child friendly PSAs the TV broadcaster was required to append at the end of each episode are all absent from this version. Enjoyable (and a good, convenient primer for anyone who has never seen the show). 7/10.