Product Details

• Actors: Kevin Sorbo, Anthony Quinn, Roma Downey, Michael Hurst, Lloyd Scott
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Universal Studios
• VHS Release Date: June 17, 1997
• Run Time: 91 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6304475616
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #83,104 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The First and Best H:TLJ Movie!, June 8, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Hercules and the Amazon Women [VHS] (VHS Tape)

From the moment you hear a voice giving you an over-view of Hercules, his adventures, and Zeus, The King of the Gods -- you find yourself hooked! The scenery, acting, special effects and sheer cleverness that goes into the H:TLJ movies is enough to make one feel satisfied if slightly unsure. However, when you get use to the "Ancient Greece with 90s Jokes" scenerio a viewer can REALLY have a good time. Kevin Sorbo shows that he was the best pick for Hercules and Anthony Quinn is, as always, masterful. Also special is New Zealand actor Michael Hurst as Iolaus, Herc's best friend and a hero-adventurer that the more human of us can get behind and admire. For those of you used to the series and who have never seen the movies it might shock to see Iolaus (later the essance of a foot-loose bachelor) actually ENGAGED to a very pretty girl in this first movie. Also, the usually free thinking Hercules has a rather sexist attitude about women -- About Hera: "That's what happens when you give a woman too much power." But the gang was just getting started here (clothes are different too, BTW) and it all comes out well in the end. Also, make a note that Roma Downy (f/ Touched By An Angel)and Lucy Lawless (Xena) also appear as amazons. If you are a HERCULES fan do NOT miss this movie!

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Top Notch Fantasy, April 10, 2000

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jonathan michael barwick (Laurinburg NC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hercules and the Amazon Women [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Hercules and the Amazon Women can be said to have everything, action, humor, romance, and a great cast ranging from Kevin Sorbo and Anthony Quinn to Roma Dowmey. If you love the Hercules T.V. show, check this one out! also keep a look out for Lucy Lawless in a role before Xena.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hercules the superman does not understand women; but does he learn?, March 30, 2011

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Israel Drazin (Boca Raton, Florida) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hercules and the Amazon Women [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Hercules, as is usual in this series of films, helps people, as an ancient Superman, despite the frequent interference of his somewhat foolish and overly-sexed father, the god Zeus, and Zeus's wife Hera, who is determined in each episode to take revenge on Hercules for the adultery committed by her husband Zeus a generation ago that resulted in Hercules' birth. The theme of this episode is way men abuse their wives, verbally and by actions, and the reactions of the women in a particular village. A villager begs Hercules to come to his village and help the villagers against beasts that are killing the men of his village who try to capture them, and who come to the village from time to time to rape the men. There are only men and boys in the village. All the women left. The men find infant boys at a stream at times, never girls, and they raise the males.

Hercules agrees to go. He takes a friend with him, who will shortly marry a woman who cannot cook, but has half of her breasts visible. Hercules advises his friend never to give women any power because the result will be bad for him and everyone else. He tells his mother that no woman will ever be able to entice him as the bad cook enticed his friend. Zeus adds his advice to Hercules: it is impossible to change a woman if she doesn't want to be changed. We see two episodes of women washing the feet of men. Hercules tells a woman: we don't dominate you, we protect you.

Hercules discovers that the "beasts" are the women from the village who are living in the forest and being trained as amazons. They rape the men of the village to replenish the females of their group, while they send unwanted sons to the village. They are led by a beautiful woman who, despite Hercules' prior protestations, entices him. We see a scene where the amazons ride into the village to rape the men, and over-sexed Zeus is there to "allow himself" to be raped.

Who created this situation of amazon women refusing to live with men? How can the men stop being raped? How can they persuade the women to return to them? Should they learn how to wash their wives' feet? What advice will Hercules, who obviously doesn't understand women, give the men? What will happen between him and the amazon queen?