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Release Date: 17 October, 2000 Retail Price: $14.94 OUR Price: $12.99 You SAVE: $1.95! Cast: Complete Cast (9 total) |
Heavy Metal 2000 Reviews
no fun at all
Loosely connected to the first HM of '81, this sequel has a single tale of lust and immortality in place of the anthology of the older movie. While mining an asteroid, one of the miners finds a crystal shard - the key to a fountain of immortality. The fountain itself is on another planet thousands of light years away. Unfortunately, the miner is played (okay, "voiced") by Michael Ironside and, faster than you can say "Oh No, General Katana is approaching!!" the key consumes the miner's soul and sends him off on a quest of conquest to find the well. First off, he must ravage a remote planet whose few human inhabitants contain traces of an element that staves off death. While successfully carting away most of the population of this distant planet, he misses Julie - a six-foot hottie with a big gun and a bottomless reservoir of rage. The two battle across the galaxy - first to satisfy her thirst for revenge, but then for the sake of immortality itself.
Even having been warned, this flick is still a big disappointment. The first movie was guilty fun - catering and yet lampooning the rock-fan in each of us. The animation was crude, yet in a charming way that today's assembly-line animation or CGI will never know. (Imagine a story built on all those way-out 1970's album covers, and you get the idea.) With animation reflecting an era that predated Japanimation, "Heavy Metal" grew better with age - a time capsule of bad music and laughably bad humor. The new movie offers none of that - no memorable lines, images or characters. Though patterned largely on "Taarna, the Terakien" from the first movie, HM2 has none of the spirit or wit of the earlier story, and Julie emotes less character (which is bad when you remember that Taarna was mute). In short, the movie offers less than a fraction of the entertainment value of a single episode of "Heavy Metal" the magazine.
Better than expected, considering
Better than expected, after reading the some of the reviews and re-watching its predecessor. Gone is the Ralph Bakshi-esque rotoscoping and the mixed quality vignettes; in come the digital modelling/FX, smoother animation and movie-length revenge plot. Basically this is the type of thing that you might see on "Adult Swim" on Cartoon Network, which itself is kinda like HM (the magazine) at times.
As for the soundtrack, I'd consider it a bunch of modern but otherwise forgettable bludgeon-metal tracks that work as combat-sequence fodder but otherwise feel out of place (as with the first film.) Not a great movie, but decent.
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