Heavy Metal

Columbia Pictures | Release Date: August 7, 1981

6.9	USER SCORE Generally favorable reviews based on 15 Ratings

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JPKSep 19, 2019

Time For Cheesing!
As you could tell, That was a South Park reference up there (From an episode that parodies this film), Anyways Heavy Metal is quite outdated, But it’s still pretty good.

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christian2021Jul 26, 2021

I find it funny that people are either offended by the childishness of the film or only know of it because of South Park. The Movie has a long rich history being bazed on the Magazine that provided a platform for comicbook artists in bothI find it funny that people are either offended by the childishness of the film or only know of it because of South Park. The Movie has a long rich history being bazed on the Magazine that provided a platform for comicbook artists in both Americas and Europe that doesn't fall into DC/Dark Horse/Marvel. People attack the movie as perverted and immature, but guess what that's what Heavy Metal Magazine was made for, Teenagers! It's a coming of age for boys and probably girls too, which is why it doesn't take sexuality seriously as who did when they were 16? Most don't even know who they are at that point. Sex, Violence and cool Magic and Scifi mixed together helps brings the emotions out. It's amazing if you like this stuff, so yeah this movie was not made for a general audience, it was made for fans of the comics. The humor is very funny and the movie has many laugh out loud moments. Keeping in tradition with the magazine it takes the names from the movie is divided into several really unrelated parts, there is a red thread keeping the movie together which is probably for the best since its a movie and not a magazine, sort of like Pulp Fiction. The soundtrack really makes the movie as with a limited budget it's very hard to get quality animation, that being said even with choppy low framerate the artwork is very good and animation is decent even if it is on par with filmation saturday morning cartoon shows, it makes up for it with the mentioned sountrack and beautiful artwork and other cool effects. You can definitely made for watching while high on drugs, but even without drugs if you're fan of the Heavy Metal Magazine it's a very good movie.… Expand

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MeatpastaOct 22, 2020

I give this movie a 5, cus i didnt hate it, but it was kinda crap and childish, it could of been heaps better if more effort was put into writing it or if the person writing it wasn't a loser, there is alot of unnecessary perverted sex ****I give this movie a 5, cus i didnt hate it, but it was kinda crap and childish, it could of been heaps better if more effort was put into writing it or if the person writing it wasn't a loser, there is alot of unnecessary perverted sex **** and drug **** put in seemingly just for that sake of it which made me think that disgusting, perverted, scummy type people(hollywood) produced this, i would never watch this film again, it had like a couple of cool scenes and visuals, like the b-52 plane scene was sick and a scene where they use psychedelic moving oil for the horizon as a car or some**** is speeding in the foreground is cool, but apart from that and a couple other visuals its very mediocre, if ur interested watch it on ur own, but i wouldn't subject someone to this crap who didn't specifically want to see this film… Expand

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Voodoo123Mar 27, 2023

+Inspired art and story direction
+Superb soundtrack throughout
+Great variety of stories -/+Provocative female characters throughout Wasn't sure what this film would be about, its like my teenage boy brain mixed with untethered-provocative+Inspired art and story direction
+Superb soundtrack throughout
+Great variety of stories
-/+Provocative female characters throughout

Wasn't sure what this film would be about, its like my teenage boy brain mixed with untethered-provocative fantasy sci fi and culture pulp. I loved it! Certainly much of the animation and character designs dont exactly hold up well in 2023, but the conceptual essence of what the production team did here is still very good. What I found most fascinating is how much of other material I saw in this movie...Fith element...thundercats...conan the barbarian...dungeons and dragons....panzer dragoon.... and a multitude of others.… Expand

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I_amnota_robotMay 1, 2022

Stoner movie gold. A superb oddity, mobius animation, john candy, black sabbath

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tonykurebusuJun 5, 2023

Chaotic. This cartoon is a green ball. The creators had fun as they could when they created this cartoon. I give points for this.

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