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Heavy Metal
Director: Gerald Potterton
Year: 1981
TRT: 1:30

Reviewed: 10/10/2026
VIDEO REVIEW

Awesome animations + Awesome tunes = Awesome movie. I will fight anyones who says different. But I am not a fighter, I’m a lover. And I still love this movie, flaws and all. But mostly for the cool drawerings and soundtrack. Except for the Journey song. They should’ve shitcanned that one. But the Cheap Trick songs? Probably still my favorites from the band.

An animated anthology film here, based on a bunch of bad-ass short stories from the magazine known as “Heavy Metal” in U.S. markets, from its French Originator “Globules Hurling” or whatever it’s called, I don’t speak Croysants. But where live-action anthologies tend to have a few turds in the bowl, when you are dealing with animations? There’s too much work and time involved on way more people’s parts, so even the lesser parts of this are still pretty solid. And when I say lesser, I’m looking at you, gay battle pigeon! If you seen it, you know. If you haven’t, for some inexplicably retarded excuse of a reason, you will know. You WILL.

1981 animations so some aren’t the smoothieness one comes to find in the current CGI generation, but it is true to some of the original comic-book art it’s based on, throws in a few new tricks and some rotoscopings to make it a feasible pre-computerbased production. Each segment has some greatness to it. And because it is a comic-book basis and not having to rely on actual physical physics and anatomies, all women are Fantastically well rounded. Because that’s keeping with the genre. no. other. reason.


Music notes: Great soundtrack, perhaps one of the best of the time period. Unfortunately it gave them some legal issues for a long time even after release because of mixing different studio bands. Because of the contract, you could only get it on cassette and maybe vinyl until like 2003 or some shit. I guess then it crossed into “antique” status and then was finally released on CD. No shit. Music Rights Gargoyles are a thing. Great Quote: “There was no way I was gonna walk around this place with my dork hangin out!” – John Candy, voice talent supremo. That and the one about selling dope while disguised as a nun. STTTEEERRRRRNNNN!!!! Heh!

Ratings Notes: On the Blu-ray, The initial Ratings Card says rated ‘R’ but nothing in the box saying what it’s actually rated R for. Bitches. Maybe it’s for the chanting of Cthulhu, but backwards. But I don’t think that’s it.



STORY

Story rating: 4.5 out of 6 beers

LOOK

Look rating: 6 out of 6 beers
Video review of Heavy Metal (1981) by theDMR

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