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That’s what Sony Pictures Releasing UK‘s YouTube channel is titling the latest trailer for the latest live-action take on our favorite Eternian warriors. With the movie scheduled to come out next month that’s probably accurate. Tomorrow we’ll be looking at a trailer for a series that looks worse and worse with every update, which sadly has become the norm form Hollywood, while every new trailer and interview for Masters Of The Universe has looked better and better…with one exception we’ll get into in this article. The point is they seem to care about what they’re doing.

The first trailer was bogged down in comedy, the second trailer added more action, and this new one still has action, a better look at the costumes, make-up, and CG character designs, and still some comedy. Plus almost no signs of Earth, which they should have done the whole movie. The whole movie should be taking place on Eternia, which I’ll also come back to, though that’s also been discussed previously.

Plus the movie made by Travis Knight, who made the only really good live-action Transformers movies. The Michael Bay ones got worse and worse while Rise Of The Beasts was just okay compared to the praise Bumblebee got. Then again look at what it’s surrounded by. There are only a few theatrical Transformers movies. One was a Japanese exclusive clip show of the Mainframe shows while the classic one is only good for nostalgia. Still, he did a good job with that movie, which also gives hope, but let’s see this final UK trailer.

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