Review of Heavy Metal (1981) by Christian2021 — 26 Jul 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 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.