I have never really liked this movie but can understand why other people do it.

Rating: 5/10 (17 December 2018)

This movie tries to pack a lot of stuff.
However, for a proper parody of The Hercules story, the movie is not radical enough.
For a true divine comedy, this is simply not funny enough for a new staging of Greek mythology, it deviates too much from the original story and the world.
And for a real fantasy film adaptation, he has too many pop culture references and modernity inside. All this could not be a problem if they had gone completely out of the way like the Flintstones. Or if you pack a little more excitement but all the things that really made the movie are just a short cut.
The visual drawing style is just not my taste, all look like background characters from other films and although I prefer the message, is very much the representation and the danger and the fights I used here are just wrong.
I would prefer Meg to hurt herself to give Hercules his powers back. If we had really seen Hercules solve his 12 chores and fight against the monsters, if we had seen Hercules try to fight without his powers and put more emphasis on his mind and his training ect.
And if the mix between fun and danger was more balanced.
I like James Woods as Hades, but wonder how he could not know if Hercules is dead, I like the reinterpretation of the gods a lot but they do not do enough to take them seriously as powerful beings, I hardly remember the passages in the they have been singing since it distracts from the story narration every time and I liked the fight against the Hydra that was all.