Heavy Metal

A film review by Christopher Null - Copyright © 2005 Filmcritic.com

There wasn't a more seditious movie you could watch as a kid growing up in the 1980s than Heavy Metal, a film that not only relished in its sex, drugs, and rock and roll, but was animated, too. The collection of a handful of hand-drawn sci-fi vignettes are loosely connected by an evil, glowing green ball which tells its story (huh?) to a young girl it soon plans to kill. Some of the stories are funny. Some are gruesome. Some look cool. Some are drawn terribly. All of it amounts to a graphic, guilty pleasure that features a soundtrack from the era's biggest rock groups. And, uh, Stevie Nicks. Anyone from the era will love it, while everyone else simply won't get it at all.

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Rating

3.5 out of 5 Stars

Cast and Crew

  • Director: Gerald Potterton
  • Producer: Ivan Reitman
  • Screenwriter: Len Blum, Daniel Goldberg
  • Stars: Rodger Bumpass, Jackie Burroughs, John Candy, Don Francks, Martin Lavut, Eugene Levy, Alice Playten, Harold Ramis, Susan Roman, Richard Romanus, August Schellenberg, Al Waxman, Percy Rodriguez
  • MPAA Rating: R