Review – Heavy Metal

Aside from being one of the great classics of adult-oriented animation, this doesn’t have much going for it. Sure, if you’re into the magazine that made the movie possible, or even if you just happen to like hard rock from the early 80s, you may get a minor kick out of this. Otherwise it’ll really help if you’re a pubescent boy, because that’s the mind-set this whole thing appears to be aimed at. I guess that’s a mean way of saying that I really loved this movie back when I was a sci-fi-con-attending teenager, but now that I view it again with a slightly more mature perspective it doesn’t impress me anywhere near as much. Objectively speaking, much of the animation is really terrible by the standards of work that came later. I’ll fess up to still getting a kick out of the WWII bomber sequence, but the rest of it leaves me more than a little flat. However, for fans of the movie the DVD contains several features (deleted scenes, feature-length rough cut, commentary, etc.) that should make the disc worth a look. Mildly amusing