Heavy Metal (1981)
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Starring: John Candy, Eugene Levy, Richard Romanus, Harold Ramis, John Vernon
Producer: Ivan Reitman
Screenwriter: Len Blum, Daniel Goldberg
Composer: Elmer Bernstein
Story: Dan O'Bannon
DVD Info
Release:
Oct 25, 2005
DVD Features:
- Note: This release is in the UMD format for Sony PSP players only.
- Anamorphic - 1.85
Audio:
- Dolby Digital 2.0 - English, French, Spanish, German, Italian
- Subtitles - English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Dutch, Italian, Arabic, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Greek, Hebrew, Hindu, Hungarian, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Swedish, Turkish, Thai - Optional
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Reviews
You have to conclude that its makers should have got out more.
...An unabashed crowd-pleaser. Whenever possible, it goes for the fight scene, the sex joke, the jiggly breasts...
It's a mixed bag, but successful in a mindless, adolescent way.
Some of the animation is first-rate, particularly in the more modest comedy segments, and even the heavy set pieces have greater flash and dazzle than anything Ralph Bakshi mustered around the same period.
Fantasies that are gratuitously sexist and Fascist (macho whoring and warmongering), and whose roots reach all the way back to post-hippie paranoia, feed the tangled plot-lines of a movie that... should disappoint even the teenage wet-dreamers.
Anyone from the era will love it, while everyone else simply won't get it at all.
Heavy Metal has been animated with great verve, and scored very well, with music much less ear-splitting than the title would suggest.
Heavy Metal despite all of its flaws and anacrhonisms, nevertheless represents something of a refreshment in today's sterile climate.
A bit of a mixed bag. Some eye popping animation, chock full of nudity, gore, and alien landscapes. The classic soundtrack is what makes it most worthwhile when the stories fall flat
Wild animation, tons of blaring rock music, and fanboy wish fulfillment fantasies of the freakiest order. Good campy fun.
...visually stunning some of the time and stunningly juvenile the rest.
A wildly sophomoric and stupid cartoon celebrating gore, rape and bad music.
Asked if I wanted to see it again, I figured, why not? I would have remembered if it was really bad. But memory does play tricks.
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