Plot:
A shepherd is playing a pan flute when a runaway chariot scatters the goats.
With the chariot heading for the cliff, Hercules pulls up a nearby tree to stop the horses. He saves Iole, the princess who fainted.
Witty repartee ensues.
Always kindly offer meat to all vegetarians you meet.
You can't lick Herc's stick of meat.
It is revealed that many people think the Pelius, the current king of Jellico, killed his brother, Eson, former king and father of Jason.
Iole tells of as child. Her brother Ephetus, Jason and herself snuck out one night to see the Golden Fleece, the symbol of royal unity. That night, she awakens and learns
King Eson was killed. The Golden Fleece was taken along with Jason. Kieron was accused of the murder and kidnapping Jason. However, Kieron happens to be a friend of
Hercules who couldn’t believe him to do anything so dastardly.
Hercules offers to take her back to Jellico. He also thinks Pelius was behind the murder of the former king.
Elsewhere, the Oracle warns the king to beware a man with one sandal. The brilliant leader decides to order death to every man with one sandal. My, what a Herod-like
decision.
Princess Iole and Hercules arrive at the palace. King Pelius wants Hercules to train his son, Ephetus. Pelius is tired and wants to turn his throne over to Ephetus. Hercules
must demonstrate his strength.
Hercules will stay and claims because it is of Iole.
King Pelius is visited by Eurysteus, or Captain Sneaky. Well Captain Sneaky killed Eson. He convinces Pelius that Hercules will be distracted by Iole.
Now, apparently a large flock of tog clad men engage in the manly arts. Well, not the Roman bathhouse arts. Olympic-like activities like wrestling, marathons. The Jellico
men are following over Hercules example.
Ephetus arrives late and is chewed out by his teacher, Hercules. Starting with archery, we see the crown prince isn’t Hawkeye or even Green Arrow’s sidekick
Speedy. Hercules has Ulysses hit the bull’s eye.
The pouty crown prince challenges Hercules to the discuss throw. Do you get the feeling the prince will be even poutier after Hercules beats him? If so, you win the 4th
degree Wisconsin Drinking Ninja badge…
Later, Hercules rides around with Iole. They embrace and swap spit. What woman couldn’t melt in the virile hands of the PRINCE OF POWER???
A lion has mauled a number of kids. Hercules decides to go after it. Ephetus catches up and wants to see Hercules fight the beast. Stock footage of the lion appears, and
it quickly mauls Ephetus. Yes, bless you giant kitty…Hercules wrestles the fearsome feline to death.
Pelius and the Oracle discuss Ephetus’s death. The good king plans to kill the PRINCE OF POWER? He may be nobility but still not to bright…
Hercules returns with Ephetus’s body. Pelius chews Hercules out and blames him for his son’s death. The king also orders him to battle the Cretan Bull.
Iole, the princess of wishy-washiness, is crying her eyes out. She won’t listen to Hercules who thinks having to go around slaughtering Cretan Bulls is a bit unfair.
Hercules pays a visit on Sybil the Oracle. Their discussion reveals that Ephetus wasn’t worthy to be king. Anyways, the rugged demigod wants to worthy of the gods
and to even renounce his immortality. The gods are apparently sick of his whining to be a regular man and to love and have a family like others. All of the sudden, he’s on
his own. His immortality has been revoked faster than a driver’s license. Death is now a possibility. Hercules is overjoyed…
Hercules is going to kill the Cretan Bull. Wrestling and punching it puts the bull down for the count.
He spies a man heading into a nearby cave. Jason is tending to the mortally wounded Kieron. Why this is Jason the rightful king of Jellico? Kieron asks Hercules to
teach Jason to be a man, justice and get him the throne of Jellico. The Golden Fleece is hidden on faraway island. It must be retrieved.
Hercules and Jason ride to Jellico. Kieron never told Jason who killed his father. Later through a stream, Jason loses a sandal. This would be a plot point. Hercules
remembers King Pelius’s order to kill all one sandaled men.
Iole is told of Hercules returning with a man claiming to be Jason.
King Pelius doubts Jason’s story but recalls the prophecy of the one sandaled man.
Several men sprout off about reclaiming the Golden Fleece. Pelius gives them 3 months to retrieve it.
Iole is now apparently on an uppity jag with Hercules is trying to solve her uncle’s death. Hercules ought to find some other potential love interest.
Pelius is sure that the Golden Fleece will be found. Captain Sneaky offers to kill Jason if Iole is the payment.
The Argo sets sail. Rowing men sing manly songs as hoisting sails ensue.
Iole watches the Argo sail off in the distance.
That night, the Argo was being tossed. If not for the courage of the fearless crew, the Minnow would be lost. The provisions are lost as the storm continues
to rage.
In the morning, half the crew wants to return to Jellico. Captain Sneaky is trying to get the men to mutiny. Hercules is sure that Sneaky is behind the machinations. When
the reprovisioning occurs, Sneaky will stay aboard the Argo.
Ashore, the men are surrounded by the leggy Amazons. They are taken to the Queen of the Amazons. The Argonauts learn that the Amazon’s men have all died.
A graveyard filled with all the people who thought Lou Ferrigno made an excellent Hercules.
They will stay the night and can leave in the morning.
The Argonauts are laying on the charm on the Amazons worse than a bunch of drunken Frat guys at Spring Break.
Jason and his Amazonian squeeze discuss things and get into some pseudo-Star Trek rants about gender.
The Argonauts are frolicking with the Amazons. Horseback riding and swimming ensues like a bad STD medicine commercial, not that there are any good STD medicine
commercials.
Jason wants to stay with his squeeze.
Captain Sneaky has all the provisions aboard. The others have been ashore for the past week.
Ulysses overhears the queen ordering all of the men to be killed. Ulysses learns of a powerful drug that will knock the men out. Poppy gathering ensues. Ulysses returns
to the ship and Hercules who finally returns to the movie.
Interpretive Amazonian dance ensues as the men are getting gassed or snockered on the wine.
Amazonian and Jason relationship fu ensues.
Hercules learns of how his little buddy drugged the wine.
Sneaky is up to his normal evil nature.
Hercules and Ulysses start picking up the unconscious men. Really, there aren’t any homoerotic undertones in this scene.
The Argonauts who were aboard are heading ashore. Hercules has them take care of the sleeping men.
The Argo sails away.
Amazonian squeeze realizes Jason is gone.
The men want to return ashore to the Amazons who cry for the men to return. Man’s singing starts to break the siren-like spell of the Amazon’s charm. .
Days of sailing, they are close to the Golden Fleece. Jason and the men head off. Sneaky is left behind.
Suddenly, a number of cavemen attack the Argonauts. However, they are quickly routed. Jason has vanished, though.
Elsewhere, Jason approaches the Golden Fleece, when a monster arises from the ground. It looks like a man in a T-Rex costume. Speeded-up attack ensues with a spear
wielding Jason versus the monster. 1 throw later, Jason has recovered the Fleece. The note on the back is from Eson. Pelius was behind the murder and wants Jason to
forgo revenge.
Hercules acknowledges Jason as the king and a man who is not given into hate which leads to the Dark Side of the Force.
The return voyage to Jellico ensues.
The trunk the Fleece has been kept is opened. The Fleece is gone and so is Sneaky. Hercules vows to go after him and return the Fleece. He wants Jason to stay
aboard the ship for the time being.
Angry Hercules finds Sneaky and Pelius with the Golden Fleece. The PRINCE OF POWER signals Jason.
Well, Hercules isn’t quite smart enough to avoid falling through a trapdoor into the dungeon.
Iole has been ordered to stay in her room for now. She sneaks out to find Hercules.
Jason and the crew of the Argo approach the castle.
In the dungeons, Iole finds Hercules unconscious.
Pelius demands that Jason present the Golden Fleece.
Hercules awakens.
Pelius proclaims Jason a traitor.
A fight breaks out between Jason’s crew and the palace guards.
Hercules breaks out of the dungeon and finally takes care of Sneaky.
Reaching the palace, Hercules’s chain fu ensues.
Pelius has run off, set fire to the Golden Fleece and drank some poison before Iole finds him. He tells her to run off with the PRINCE OF POWER.
The palace brawl continues. Hercules pulls the two main palace column supports apart leading to the front of the palace collapsing.
Hercules sets sail for romance with Iole as Jason’s narration ends the movie.
