"By the Power of Grayskull! I have the power!" The young heir to a mythical kingdom (Nicholas Galitzine) escapes to Earth when the kingdom is attacked. 15 years later after a life established on Earth, he seeks to return to his home world and claim what is rightfully his. My expectations were mixed here. It’s a movie based on toys, and the toys were deliberately vague and cynical to begin with. Is it fantasy? Is it sci-fi? Is it superheroes? It’s all of them because you are a teenage boy in the 80s and we want to sell you stuff. But the director is Travis Knight who directed the wonderful Kubo and the Two Strings and the surprisingly good Bumblebee so perhaps this might also be surprisingly good? Sadly it isn’t that great. It’s fun enough and has that tongue in cheek meta humour vibe that was novel in The Avengers but now is a bit grating and soulless. The effects work in the big action scenes is just people flailing around on a green screen, and I found myself glazing over as…
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