YMMV / The Loves of Hercules

• Harsher in Hindsight: What are the last words of Hercules's wife? "Hercules....will avenge my death..." Uh....
• Fight Scene Failure: The fight between Hercules and Achelous consists of some half-hearted shoving and a truly hilarious bit where Herc picks his rival up and does a sort of lazy twirl while holding the guy over his head. Achelous doesn't struggle when Herc does this, presumably because Mickey Hargitay would have dropped the man if he'd been moving around too much. Herc then gently sets him down and nudges him into a nearby pile of hay before storming out. This is presented as a life-or-death battle.
• Narm: The "crushing embrace" that one of Hippolyta's tree victims gives her in revenge. It looks much more like a faintly insistent hug.
  • If anything, it looks to be groping her breasts as she writhes in vague discomfort.
    Crow: Good day to be a tree.
• Special Effect Failure: The horribly stiff Hydra animatronic. Especially embarrassing is when Mickey Hargitay clearly deliberately rolls under its claw, and then tries to act like he's stuck.
  • The bull that Hercules kills can be seen breathing after he stabs it, and the blood on its neck is very obviously red paint.
• Rooting for the Empire: It can be very hard to root for Hercules, given how quickly he forgets about his wife in favour of a big breasted woman he literally just met, who herself can be rather irritating at times. Licos may have killed the woman Hercules was married to and murdered the king in his quest for the throne, but he isn't either of the leads.
• Viewer Name Confusion: For whatever reason, everyone in the MST3K cut of the movie pronounces Achelous' name without the s, leading to a lot of viewers assuming that his name was spelled Acheloo.