Heavy Metal (1981)
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Reviews Counted:23
Fresh:14
Rotten:9
Average Rating:5.7/10
Consensus: It's sexist, juvenile, and dated, but Heavy Metal makes up for its flaws with eye-popping animation and a classic, smartly used soundtrack.
Runtime: 1 hr 33 mins
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Synopsis: This unique collection of six animated stories combines science fiction with fantasy, horror, comedy, sex and rock music. The segments include "Harry Canyon" and "Den." In the first, a New York... [More]
Starring: John Candy, Eugene Levy, Richard Romanus, Harold Ramis
Director: Gerald Potterton
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Reviews for Heavy Metal
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You have to conclude that its makers should have got out more. Full Review |
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...An unabashed crowd-pleaser. Whenever possible, it goes for the fight scene, the sex joke, the jiggly breasts... Full Review |
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It's a mixed bag, but successful in a mindless, adolescent way. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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Anyone from the era will love it, while everyone else simply won't get it at all. Full Review |
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Heavy Metal has been animated with great verve, and scored very well, with music much less ear-splitting than the title would suggest. Full Review |
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Heavy Metal despite all of its flaws and anacrhonisms, nevertheless represents something of a refreshment in today's sterile climate. Full Review |
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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
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Wild animation, tons of blaring rock music, and fanboy wish fulfillment fantasies of the freakiest order. Good campy fun.
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...visually stunning some of the time and stunningly juvenile the rest. Full Review |
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A wildly sophomoric and stupid cartoon celebrating gore, rape and bad music. Full Review |
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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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CommentLatest News for Heavy Metal
June 08, 2009:
Cameron, Verbinski, Snyder to Direct Heavy Metal 
Despite some studio setbacks, Kevin Eastman's "Heavy Metal" redux is rolling ahead -- and with some suitably weighty names attached, too. More...
April 09, 2009:
Rob Zombie Approached for Heavy Metal
Nothing's been signed yet, but according to producer Andy Gould, Rob Zombie has been approached by David Fincher and Kevin Eastman about directing a segment of their "Heavy... More...
September 05, 2008:
Fincher's Heavy Metal Lines Up Directors
Now that David Fincher's "Heavy Metal" is back on track at Sony, directors are once more lining up to helm portions of the anthology -- including Zack Snyder, Guillermo del... More...
July 10, 2008:
Fincher's Heavy Metal Seeks New Home
Just weeks after it was announced, David Fincher's Heavy Metal has been dropped by Paramount due to studio nervousness about the film being "too risque for mainstream audiences." More...
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