You have to conclude that its makers should have got out more.
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03/10/08
Heavy Metal (1981)
61 %
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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 City cab driver gets mixed up with a... [More]
Starring: John Candy, Eugene Levy, Richard Romanus, Harold Ramis
Director: Gerald Potterton
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Reviews for Heavy Metal
...An unabashed crowd-pleaser. Whenever possible, it goes for the fight scene, the sex joke, the jiggly breasts...
09/17/07
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.
04/16/07
Top Critic 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.
02/09/06
Anyone from the era will love it, while everyone else simply won't get it at all.
07/25/05
Heavy Metal has been animated with great verve, and scored very well, with music much less ear-splitting than the title would suggest.
08/30/04
Top Critic Heavy Metal despite all of its flaws and anacrhonisms, nevertheless represents something of a refreshment in today's sterile climate.
05/14/03
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
03/21/03
Wild animation, tons of blaring rock music, and fanboy wish fulfillment fantasies of the freakiest order. Good campy fun.
07/26/02
...visually stunning some of the time and stunningly juvenile the rest.
04/08/01
A wildly sophomoric and stupid cartoon celebrating gore, rape and bad music.
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