Load of rubbish!!

Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

It is time to bring the Herculoids to the big screen.This could easily be a two to three movie event.The first movie needs to start out with the love shared between Zandor and Tara and the love their love for the planet Quasar. Zandor and Tara should first meet with Zoe and Igoo.Then comes the bad guys and there are plenty to choose from. The enemy looking to conquer and make planet Quasar their own to enslave the indeginous inhabitants.Second movie should bring about the birth of Zandor and Tara's son Dorno. Now Tundro, Gloop and Gleep get introduced.Again the bad guys want to enslave planet Quasar.Third movie should have a teenage or young adult Dorno now with the passion and experience to really assist his parents defend planet Quasar.This would be a great, series.Just throwing my excited 7 cents out there.Herb

It's weird how you can remember things one way and then find out your memories are wrong.I have recently been watching old stuff I liked as a kid and most of it is unbearable crap.The Herculoids isn't unbearable, it's just really strange.These people live in some sort of nuclear wasteland where nothing grows and every other being in the universe wants to invade their barren wasteland.They never even explain the relationship between the characters.The man and boy do and say lots of things to lead you to believe that they aren't father and son.One really good thing about this cartoon is that they kill people.That's always refreshing.

I wonder where the original idea came from.Sci-fi animation at it's best. For the time anyhoo.A family of three with several super pets. Zandor is the Father, Tarra the Mother, and Dorno the son. A basic family except they have great athleticism and futuristic weapons. And for some reason Dorno refers to his parents by their first names.Zok is a flying dragon that fires bolts of energy from his eyes and tail. Tundro looks like a triceratops that fires shots from his horn. Has armor plates as well.Igoo is a giant ape made of rock. And yes that is Ted "Lurch" Cassidy doing the voice.Gloop and Gleep were jellylike blobs. Zandor also had a slingshot that was more powerful than most weapons that REALLY exist. There was no sentimentality here. But you still saw all of them support each other. It comes off like a Japanese monster anime at times. Why don't they do more like this?

Next to Jonny Quest, this was the first cartoon I could recall before or since that didn't continuously waste time telling me what the people/creatures were going to do. Don't these action-oriented cartoon makers of the present day realize that the bulk of the fun is in seeing the resolution happen not laying out the scenario? Oftentimes I was riveted surprised cheered over the victories the principles had over the bad guys. You weren't let in on this menagerie's thought processes other than their characteristic sounds which could have meant anything (Or Tundro's occasionally triumphant smile). When resurrected in the 80's they tried to make some herculoids puppy-dog cute (particularly my favorite the once aloof, brutal to the bad guys Zok which irritated me)and toned down on the violence and make Zandor's family more like us American Earthlings. But who cares it was still good versus bad and not spoiling the surprises of what these adorable creatures did.