Who saw this in cinemas back in 87?

I went to see it in Melbourne, Australia when I was a kid.

This was back when they had intermissions and during this time a lot of the kids were up, jumping around and playing with their swords in their costumes. It was a lot of fun.

Because I saw it as a kid, it has remained a film which I like to watch every few years, even though it's quite a silly film. I love the music especially. I've got the DVD on my shelf.

I remember going to see it, at a really nice theater somewhere in Missouri. It was quite an event! Really enjoyed the movie, I'd even see it again.

I didn't see it in the theater, but I remember the first time I heard it was coming out. I was 12 at the time, and the neighbor kid, Jed, about a year younger than me, told me about it. By that time I didn't really care about the toys anymore, but I'd had a few of the action figures a few years earlier. I did think it would be interesting to see how they would bring those characters to life in a movie. I remember being disappointed when Jed told me that "Ivan Drago" was going to play He-Man. I figured that the only actor muscular enough to look like He-Man was Arnold Schwarzenegger. In hindsight, Lundgren was perfect for the role, though he wasn't as muscular as the original He-Man action figure or Arnold Schwarzenegger.

I watched it as soon as it came out on VHS, and thought it was a good movie. I didn't like that He-Man wore a cape though, and I didn't like that Skeletor's facial bones were clearly made of rubber.

Echoing what a lot of others said here. I remember it was my first theatrical experience with sheer disappointment and bewilderment. See I was 7 years old and had been raised on a steady diet of He-Man toys and cartoons since I can remember (the show came out when I was 3) so there was no question about seeing the movie. I remember being confused about why so many of my favorite characters were missing but remember giving the movie the benefit of the doubt because it was also introducing a few cool new ones like the lizard guy, the eye-patch guy (a sub for Trap Jaw), etc. I really hated the big-hair Gremlin looking guy and how much of the spotlight he (or she) took up, but went along with it.

A year later I remember renting it on VHS and having an even lower opinion of the film. It went from being a mixed memory to utter outrage at how corny the movie seemed to be when confined to the television where it didn't get carried along by the effects and cinematography. Fast forward 37 years and I watched it at a friend's house again on a nice large projection TV in 4K and it's actually better now than I remembered it being, though of course very campy and heavily weighed down by having too many protagonist characters (namely the teens) and being set on contemporary Earth. Certain images were burned into my brain like the superimposed skeletor speaking to his subjects and all the guys being led away as prisoners in Vasquez Rocks.