Hercules in New York

Starring:Arnold Schwarzenegger, Arnold Stang, Deborah Loomis, James Karen, Ernest Graves, Tanny McDonald, Harold Burstein, Merwin Goldsmith, George Bartenieff, Taina Elg, Michael Lipton, Jan Adams (II), William Bass (II), Rudy Bond, Lane Carroll, Tony Carroll, Oliver Clark, Erica Fitz, Erin Fleming, Frank Gio
Director: Arthur Allan Seidelman
Studio: Lions Gate
Product Type: DVD

Editorial Review:
Description
See Arnold Schwarzenegger as the mythological Hercules! Toga clad and ripped to Mr. Universe proportions, Hercules is bored with life on Mount Olympus. When he declares his desire to live among earthly mortals, his father Zeus hurls an angry thunderbolt at Hercules and sends him plummeting to Earth. A freighter bound for New York picks up the water-logged demi-god and thus begins a raucous, muscle-bound adventure that pits New Yorkers against the godly denizens of Mount Olympus. You have your choice of either the real Arnold or the dubbed version!

Description

See Arnold Schwarzenegger as the mythological Hercules! Toga clad and ripped to Mr. Universe proportions, Hercules is bored with life on Mount Olympus. When he declares his desire to live among earthly mortals, his father Zeus hurls an angry thunderbolt at Hercules and sends him plummeting to Earth. A freighter bound for New York picks up the water-logged demi-god and thus begins a raucous, muscle-bound adventure that pits New Yorkers against the godly denizens of Mount Olympus. You have your choice of either the real Arnold or the dubbed version!

Customer Reviews:

For its time, classic Arnie.......2007-05-12

This is amusing and for us oldies quite nostalgic. Arnie introduced himself with this movie to many of us for the first time. And for its time you have to give it 5.

Super Schlock.......2007-03-03

What would you expect from a movie with a title such as this? Can't be taken seriously... Amusing.

AAHHnoldtt is kool.......2007-02-20

This was a very funny movie. It shows how green Aaahhhnolld was in his early acting career. I bought it to complete my Schwarzenegger collection of movies.

Excellent.......2006-11-04

This product was brand new as you always say and the picture and image quality is clear and easy to understand.Thank you for a job well done and I look forward to doing business with you now and in the future.Once again
thank you for a job well done and keep up the good work.

"You have strucked Hercules!".......2006-10-25

Hercules in New York (a.k.a. Hercules Goes Bannanas) was Arnold's first movie that he ever made. It originally came out in 1970 in which it tanked something fierce.

Part of this was justified as the movie itself is terrible in addition to the fact that since the studio felt like that no one would understand Arnold due to his thick Austrian accent, they got some Steve McQueen soundalike to dub Arnold's lines throughout the film.

The best part of this DVD is that it features both the original audio track featuring Arnold's actual voice in addition to the dubbed track.

A huge part of how much you'll enjoy this so-bad-it's-great movie depends on how big of an Arnold fan you are. I grew up with Arnold's films in the 80's and I remember how almost every kid wanted to be Arnold back in the day.

While it does get kind of tough to discern what he's actually saying, that's a huge part of the film's charm. While the whole plot (Hercules gets bored and decides against Zeus' wishes to go on a trip to New York to "fool around") is stupid, Arnold's charm was already on display in spades in this film which makes it work in a weird way.

Almost about every line he utters in this movie is memorable. Mainly due to his thick accent and how the lines end up being delivered. He was also right in the thick of his body building career as well during the making of this film so as a result, other than Pumping Iron and Conan, you'll not likely see another Arnold movie in which he was more built.

The rest of the cast is uniformly terrible, in addition to Arnold Stang as Pretzy. Stang had a huge career doing voices for Hanna Barbara cartoons but he really needed to just stay behind the scenes as his wretched performance in this movie will prove.

The movie has a super cheap look to it and literally looks like the budget was maybe 100 dollars.

Anybody who loves cheesy B-movies or Arnold films in general will really get a kick out of this awful movie as it is still a whole lot of fun.

Others need not apply and should stay far, far away from this one.

******************BTW, my 5 star rating is purely on a cheese scale.***********

Average customer rating:

For its time, classic Arnie
Super Schlock
AAHHnoldtt is kool
Excellent
"You have strucked Hercules!"

Hercules in New York
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger , Arnold Stang , Deborah Loomis , James Karen , and Ernest Graves
Director: Arthur Allan Seidelman
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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Customer Reviews:

For its time, classic Arnie.......2007-05-12

This is amusing and for us oldies quite nostalgic. Arnie introduced himself with this movie to many of us for the first time. And for its time you have to give it 5.

Super Schlock.......2007-03-03

What would you expect from a movie with a title such as this? Can't be taken seriously... Amusing.

AAHHnoldtt is kool.......2007-02-20

This was a very funny movie. It shows how green Aaahhhnolld was in his early acting career. I bought it to complete my Schwarzenegger collection of movies.

Excellent.......2006-11-04

"You have strucked Hercules!".......2006-10-25

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