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Heavy Metal
A glowing orb terrorizes a young girl with a collection of stories of dark fantasy, eroticism and horror.
25 July 1936, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
21 June 1941, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
18 December 1942, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
17 April 1957, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
9 May 1952, Detroit, Michigan, USA
20 November 1951, Jonesboro, Arkansas, USA
28 August 1947, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
18 December 1934, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
24 February 1932, Zehner, Saskatchewan, Canada
21 September 1943, Bournemouth, England, UK
28 June 1940, Montréal, Québec, Canada
September 17, 2007
...An unabashed crowd-pleaser. Whenever possible, it goes for the fight scene, the sex joke, the jiggly breasts...
January 01, 2000
Regardless of its dated stylishness (which still holds up remarkably well a decade plus later), Heavy Metal was a pioneering film in 1981 and remains a pivitol and infuential body of art today.
August 30, 2004
Heavy Metal has been animated with great verve, and scored very well, with music much less ear-splitting than the title would suggest.
March 10, 2008
You have to conclude that its makers should have got out more.
January 30, 2012
In 1981, this may have been state-of-the-art animation, but now it looks rudimentary, clunky, and flat. The writing, likewise, is flat.
August 05, 2014
Exemplifies the notion that the euphemism "adult material" almost exclusively denotes content which is chiefly of appeal to people other than adults.
April 16, 2007
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.
February 12, 2010
Archly stunted and incalculably influential
February 09, 2006
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.
January 01, 2000
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.
March 26, 2009
Initial segments have a boisterous blend of dynamic graphics, intriguing plot premises and sly wit that unfortunately slide gradually downhill.
January 13, 2016
It's definitely watchable for fans that appreciate the exploitative pulp nature of the magazine set to excellent rock music.