{"id":24448,"date":"2014-08-19T18:53:59","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T22:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=24448"},"modified":"2017-02-26T18:59:15","modified_gmt":"2017-02-26T23:59:15","slug":"hercules-in-new-york-1970","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/19\/hercules-in-new-york-1970\/","title":{"rendered":"Hercules in New York (1970)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I\u2019d be willing to bet that even the most hardcore Arnold Schwarzenneger (billed as Arnold Strong) fan will tap out after thirty minutes of \u201cHercules in New York.\u201d It\u2019s a brutally awful attempt to cash in on the Hercules logo, while also failing to turn Schwarzenneger in to a star. It also doesn\u2019t help that whether it\u2019s Arnold with an English dub, or Arnold in his original voice, \u201cHercules in New York\u201d is impossible to sit through. It\u2019s almost kind of fun to see Arnold try to enunciate English, though, as he plays Hercules, a young demi-God who lives in paradise with women at his feet, and is still bored.<\/p>\n

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Basically Arnold Strong is Hercules, a spoiled gap toothed son of Hercules, who follows his dad around in a garden complaining that he\u2019s bored. Meanwhile, his dad wags his finger at him warning him not to talk back. Hercules wants to go to New York to experience the world, but Zeus won\u2019t let him. Even in spite of a bunch of buxom Greek babes falling at Hercules\u2019 feet begging for mercy for Hercules, Zeus simply will not budge. After arguing with his father, Zeus punishes Hercules for wanting to go to New York by\u2014uh\u2014zapping him to Earth. Where he travels to New York, Point: Hercules. Director Arthur Allan Seidelman doesn\u2019t really know how to unfold a story (I use that term loosely), so he really just focuses on Arnold Strong\u2019s body, almost obsessively.<\/p>\n

He flexes, twitches, contorts, and even pulses in some moments, while he struggles to speak English to his co-stars. Most of the movie is just Hercules getting in to wacky situations, as he is a classic fish out of water, and solves every problem by destroying something. Meanwhile, Arnold Stang is a painfully obnoxious comedic sidekick, playing Pretzie, a pretzel salesman who inexplicably takes an interest in Hercules. He follows him around for most of the movie, guiding him on social etiquette, and gawking at his great feats f strength. Despite every person in the movie annoying Hercules to the point of physical harm, shockingly Hercules never breaks Pretzie\u2019s spine with one hand, as I\u2019d hoped. In either case, while \u201cHercules in New York\u201d is awful, its at least fun to watch Arnold shamble around like a confused three year old in a hulking body. Plus, you just can\u2019t beat his tussle with a man in a grizzly beat suit. Oops, I mean, a horrific man eating Bear!<\/p>\n