Annoying bad acting, casting,etc
I just saw it and wanted to make a few casual observations:
The guy playing modern Ahnold looks nothing like him and sounds nothing like him. he has the same cadence,but the voice and accent are all wrong. I found his acting just very distracting.
Roland kickinger seemed to do his best Dirk Diggler with an Austrian accent. For one thing I think he is too big to be Arnold. I mean I think Arnold competed at only around 220lbs. The bodybuilders in this movie are huge compared to the guys from the 70s. Everything from Kickinger's hair to his speech and wide eyed little boy/retard persona looked like a Dirk Diggler impression. I was waiting for him to burst out singing or yelling at Jack any minute.
Well, I guess Mariel cast as skeletor came off a little better than I expected. I usually think of her as a big headed lesbian and/or sex monster, but she seemed to do an OK job. A lot of the minor characters were well acted.
I'm not really sure if this is supposed to be campy to the point of being bad on purpose, but even if that is the intent I think it missed its mark. It would have better for Ahnold to be either more authentic or a little more toned down IMO.