He-Man and She-Ra: The Secret of the Sword (1985 Audience Choice)

About this episode

The episode discusses the animated film He-Man and She-Ra: The Secret of the Sword, chosen by audience vote as the finale of the season on 1985 movies.

The finale of our season on the awesome movie year of 1985 features our audience choice pick, animated toy adaptation He-Man and She-Ra: The Secret of the Sword . Directed by Ed Friedman, Lou Kachivas, Marsh Lamore, Bill Reed and Gwen Wetzler and starring the voices of John Erwin, Melendy Britt, Alan Oppenheimer and Linda Gary, He-Man and She-Ra: The Secret of the Sword defeated two other animated movies based on toy lines in our 1985 audience choice poll. The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Janet Maslin in The New York Times ( https://www.nytimes.com/1985/05/18/movies/screen-secret-of-the-sword.html ), Mark Salisbury in Time Out ( https://www.timeout.com/movies/the-secret-of-the-sword-2 ), and TV Guide . Check out more info and the entire archive of past episodes at https://www.awesomemovieyear.com and visit us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/awesomemovieyear You can find Jason on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/JHarrisComedy/ , on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/jasonharriscomedy/ and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/goforjason/ You can find Josh online at http://joshbellhateseverything.com/ , on Facebook at…

People in this episode

Host: Awesome Movie Year

Topics covered

• 1985 movies
• animated films
• toy adaptations
• audience choice
• film reviews

Keywords

• He-Man
• She-Ra
• animated movie
• 1985
• audience choice
• film review
• toy adaptation

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The New York Times, Time Out, TV Guide

Books & works: He-Man and She-Ra: The Secret of the Sword

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