The Adventures of Hercules (Italian: Le avventure dell'incredibile Ercole), also known as Hercules

II, is the 1985 sequel to the 1983 film Hercules. It was written and directed by Luigi Cozzi (credited
as Lewis Coates in the American release) who also directed the previous film, and had Lou
Ferrigno reprising his role as the title character.[1] Pino Donaggio's music for the first film is reused
here in lieu of an original score.

Summary[edit]
The film begins in outer space, just as the first film does, and begins with a retelling of the Universe's
creation story (see below). This is followed by the opening titles which are accompanied by short
clips that highlight the key parts of the first movie.
The plot begins with a story about the story of Zeus' Seven Mighty Thunderbolts that kept peace.
One day, other vengeful gods (Aphrodite, Hera, Poseidon, Flora) stole these lightning bolts to create
chaos. The lack of these thunderbolts has rendered Zeus powerless and sent the Moon on a
collision course with the Earth. As the humans on Earth begin to suffer, two sisters named Urania
and Glaucia speaks to the Little People and learns that only Hercules can save them now. After
hesitation, Zeus finally decides to send Hercules back from the stars to Earth to aid the humans, but
the vengeful gods resurrect their own warrior: King Minos. They believe that King Minos, with the
help of Dedalos (Daedalus in the first film, see below), can defeat Zeus with science. Thus begins
Hercules' quest to find the Seven Mighty Thunderbolts, which are hidden inside monsters across the
Universe.
Firstly, Hercules fights and defeats an ape-like creature and retrieves the first thunderbolt.
Meanwhile, the four gods bring King Minos back to life with help, Hercules also teams up with
Glaucia and rescues her sister Urania from hideous monsters called the Slime People. They are
overwhelmed by their huge numbers and they flee into a cave where they meet Euryale. The cave is
full of stone statues and Hercules and the sisters battle some more monsters, while Euryale walks
away and reveals herself to be a snake-haired, half-woman, half-scorpion Gorgon. Using his shield
as a mirror, Hercules avoids getting turned into stone and manages to decapitate Euryale, and
retrieves the second thunderbolt. Hercules and the two sisters sail to an island and enter an old,
haunted forest with strange human dolls hanging from the trees. He is then attacked by a demonic
sorcerer knight but Hercules overwhelms the knight and impales him onto a poison thorn branch,
revealing the third thunderbolt. Glaucia is captured by a high priest's soldiers to be sacrificed to a
deadly fire monster, Urania then rescues her while Hercules battles the monster summoned by the
priest and defeats it by throwing around the Earth until it crashes into the sea, also revealing the
fourth thunderbolt. Hercules and Glaucia then battle some Amazon warriors but he is captured by
them, Urania wakes Hercules up and he strangles their leader, the Queen of the Spiders, whose
body contained the fifth thunderbolt. The three travel up in space where Urania reveals the location
of the sixth thunderbolt, that was inside a rock. Glaucia tries to kill Urania, and Minos appears and

reveals that when both Hercules and Urania had lost Glaucia, he commanded Poseidon to use the
waters to drain her life. Hercules battles Minos who transforms into a dinosaur and Hercules
transforms into an ape and manages to destroy Minos once and for all. The warrior finally deals with
the Earth and the Moon problem, as, with Zeus' help, he grows as big as the galaxy and stops them
from colliding into each other, putting the Moon back in its proper place. Urania then reveals that,
with information she received earlier from the Little People, she is the daughter of Hera and that her
body contains the seventh thunderbolt, and decides to sacrifice her life so Zeus can retrieve the
thunderbolt, and does so, by allowing Hera to give her the "kiss of death". Both Hercules and Urania
are honored by Zeus and become gods and are able to live with them.

Cast[edit]

Lou Ferrigno as Hercules

Milly Carlucci as Urania

Sonia Viviani as Glaucia

William Berger as King Minos

Carla Ferrigno as Athena (as Carlotta Green)

Claudio Cassinelli as Zeus

Ferdinando Poggi as Poseidon (as Nando Poggi)

Maria Rosaria Omaggio as Hera

Venantino Venantini as High Priest

Laura Lenzi as Flora

Margit Evelyn Newton as Aphrodite (as Margie Newton)

Cindy Leadbetter as Ilia

Raf Baldassarre as Atreus

Serena Grandi as Euryale

Eva Robin's as Dedalos

Discontinuity between the films[edit]

Many of the elements of the first film's story were changed in the second movie. The creation of the
Universe, which is described as the result of an exploding jar in the first film, is changed in the
sequel to be the creation of "an ancient angel-like figure: a goddess whom the ancients named
Emperia. From within her came the Seed of Light." Somehow, this Seed of Light created the
Universe.
Also the character Daedalus who created the robots for King Minos in the first Hercules was
renamed "Dedalos" in the sequel. This may be due to the discrepancies between the screenplay
and Greek and Roman mythology, especially that of gender.

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