Hercules Returns Details

1993

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Starring	David Argue, Michael Carman, Bruce Spence
Director	David Parker
Genres	Action/Adventure

Hercules Returns

Hercules Returns follows in the footsteps of Woody Allen's What's Up Tiger Lily by totally re-voicing, revamping and revitalising this muscle bound epic. Film buff Brad McBain, a frustrated employee of Australia's largest cinema chain The Kent Corporation, decides to set up on his own and re-open a palatial disused cinema to show classic old films. He chooses the last picture that the cinema featured, Hercules, Samson, Machismo and Ursus Are Invincible, but when the print arrives at the grand gala opening it is in unsubtitled Italian. This calls for desperate measures, and McBain, his projectionist and his publicist are forced to improvise voice-overs themselves with hilarious results that bring the house down! Beautiful bodies, baby oil and muscles abound in this outrageous, side-splitting Australian re-run of the old Italian sword and scandal classic, featuring Hercules as a cabaret artist, his true love Labia, Samson as a wimp and Testiculi, a regular at the Pink Parthenon nightclub in Climidia.

Starring	David Argue, Michael Carman, Bruce Spence
Director	David Parker
Run time	DVD: 1 hr 17 mins
Certificate
Collections	100 Swords and Sandals Films
Genres	Action/Adventure
Language	DVD: English
Released	Production year: 1993 To Rent: DVD: Unavailable for rental

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- An opened-out movie version of an apparently popular live performance by Double Take (Des Mangan and Sally Patience), who improvise new dialogue to bad old films, a joke that requires more wit than is on display here.
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- - Halliwell's Film Guide
  - 02 Mar 2006 at 15:43
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  carry on...grecian style
  
  Film inside a film...a picture house reopens and on the opening evening they play the last film featured there - 'Hercules'. The only problem is they ... read more »
  
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  - 07 Jun 2004 at 23:32
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  Awesome comedy - It'll have you in tears
  
  One of the funniest films I've ever seen. I can promise after seeing this you'll want your own copy. It's full of ADULT humour, even from things ... read more »
  
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- - CheekychimpUK
  - 3 reviews
  - Leeds
  - 04 Dec 2009 at 13:34
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  An Australian gold nugget
  
  God I loved this movie! Not for the serious of mind or the ones shy of naughty words! ... read more »
  
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- - Trichard
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  - Edinburgh
  - 01 Feb 2007 at 08:48
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  carry on...grecian style
  
  Film inside a film...a picture house reopens and on the opening evening they play the last film featured there - 'Hercules'. The only problem is they ... read more »
  
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  Hercules Returns follows in the footsteps of Woody Allen's What's Up Tiger Lily by totally re-voicing, revamping and revitalising this muscle bound epic. Film buff Brad McBain, a frustrated employee of Australia's largest cinema chain The Kent Corporation, decides to set up on his own and re-open a ...