Former Hulk star Lou Ferrigno stars in this entirely lame low budget Italian version of the myth. This has nothing going for it. SFX, acting, directing, story. All terrible!

What was you're favourite bit of this film? When Hercules threw the bear into space? Or when Hercules threw that log into space? Or maybe the bit where Hercules managed to throw HIMSELF into space? This film is grade A Italian madness from the first second to last.I'm no stranger to Luigi Cozzi. I loved Contamination, Demons 6, and especially Starcrash, but I think he's outdone himself here. You see, you can't say Luigi hasn't got a great imagination, because he has, what you can say is that he's never quite been given the budget to cover that imagination, so what you get is, well, Hercules.After a brain damaging disco style birth of the universe, we cut to Zeus on the moon who decides to send mankind a hero to sort everything out, and thus Herc is born. After being adopted, he grows into Lou Ferrigno, who sets out to find his place in the world after his mother is killed by a giant mechanical fly.This brings him in contact with Cassieopea, her dad, a King Minos who's out to get Herc on behalf of the Goddess Hera. Never mind the plot though, because Luigi has nearly every second of this film filled with insane visuals and crazy special effects. See: Herc crossing a rainbow to get to Hades, a giant animated hand catching baby Herc falling from a waterfall, Herc growing to gigantic proportions to renders continents apart, a giant robotic centaur, swords made of rainbows and on and on and on. It's endless! The campest hero film I've ever seen (and I'm just about to watch the sequel).Check out the roster of stars here: Claudio Cassanelli (Flavia the Heretic, Atomic Cyborg), Gianni Garko (Waterloo, some spaghetti westerns), Marrella D'Angela (Tenebrae and Maya), William Berger (The Spider Labyrinth and also Maya), Bobby Rhodes (Demons and The Last Hunter), (something) Garolfo from Zombie Creeping Flesh and Eyes Behind the Stars) and Billy from Adventure Time, Lou Ferrigno himself! And he's got the biggest boobs in the film.Highly, highly recommended by me. My four year old loved it too.

This is definitely such a "hey, WTF?!" bad movie, you wonder why it was ever made at all.For all the special effects, there's very little real money getting spent here - the poverty shows in the costumes and make up and virtually unadorned sound-stages, but primarily in the casting; not only are the actors and extras incapable of convincing performances, but there aren't enough of them! This is the most underpopulated version of the ancient world I've every seen.Although there are references to the actual Hercules myths, there is also a lot of loony rewriting of Greek mythology; apparently there's a point to it all - an attempt to comment on the conflicting universes of classical magic and the coming age of 'science,' which point reaches conclusion in the film's sequel. Unfortunately, the science is pretty bad; and the magic doesn't work so well either.For all that, there are moments of amusement throughout the film, the babes are hot, and the film did salvage the fond memories of the old Italian Hercules film cycles from getting completely lost. And one last point - when the Aussies decided to put together "Hercules: the Legendary Journeys" TV show, they actually used the visual style of the Ferrigno films as their reference, just playing it up for laughs.

What is there to hate about this movie?I have seen it and I really can't figure out what's so bad about it.The acting is good the costumes are good the script is good and to tell you the truth the scene where Hercules fights the bear is breathtaking in my vision.Yes,it's aimed at children but that's really not a reason to call it the worst movie ever made.I really don't understand what's wrong with it.The fact that it isn't too violent?That there aren't any guts pulled out or heads ripped off?What?Tell me because I really want to know.However I am not surprised,people here give 10 stars to stupid movies like LOTR and mock great great movies with 3-4 stars,these people ought to be permanently banned from here.