Who payed the critics

It is a performances centric movie

Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

Look, the original Heavy Metal isn't exactly a masterpiece. But it knew what it was, and kept things interesting through animation, music, variety, and lack of restraint. It was a homage to the most stereotypical tropes of the genre, even satire. Heavy Metal 2000 is legitimately a stereotypical "metal" film.Heavy Metal 2000 is essentially the final short of Heavy Metal extended. It shows why Heavy Metal was split into shorts to begin with. The story is predictable and the characters are flat. There is a lot more violence and sex in this film than the typical sci-fi story, but you have no investment to those involved, and its not over-the-top enough to be awesome or funny. To put it bluntly - Heavy Metal 2000 is a boring film, with no identity.Heavy Metal 2000 also suffers in artistic production. The backgrounds are sometimes nice...but there is sooooo much brown and gray! Its a gritty, ugly film. The characters...how do I put this...seem too soft? There is too little detail to them, especially noticeable in close-ups. And we can't forget about the bad CGI. The smoke and fire effects look like they were added in 5 minutes.I'm more of a power metal guy, so I can't say how good the music is. But I've seen no defenders of this film's soundtrack.Heavy Metal 2000 is awful. Only fans of the sleazy should give it a chance. It fails on every mark. Dull, stupid, and unaware, don't be fooled by the Heavy Metal name.

The movie had ended. For a few minutes Henry stared at the blank screen before he became aware of a buzzing noise. The garage-turned-movie- theater would have been dead silent but for that sound. He looked at the overhead beamer, but it did not make the sound. He turned his head from one side to the other to locate the source until he saw Kristl at the other end of their couch. She was hanging a bit to the side with her eyes closed. Her relaxed expression and slightly open mouth made her look peaceful. 'Look at her.. She has fallen asleep.' Henry thought. Kristl was dressed in a dark grey sweater, blue faded jeans and combat boots. Henry tried to imagine her being dressed up like this Julie character from the movie; in ripped clothes with some metal plates, adorned with stakes as armor waving a wicked shaped sword. He imagined her having a wasp like waist and large dangling boobs, with big nipples and wide hips. He failed to get that picture right. Gettingthe picture right was also something he failed to do with this movie too. It started with this supposed-to-be sexy woman living in insignificant colony on an off-beat planet who somehow got to be an expert in guns, lasers, hand weapons, spaceships and whatnot. He liked sexy women like Selene from Underworld, but her fighting skills seem to fit with her: she was a vampire death dealer after all.. How the heck Julie got them went unexplained. But it would not have mattered if it had been tongue-in-cheek like or over the top or somehow funny. But the movie tried to be deadly serious, where cheekiness could have saved it.And then this bad guy. An unknown miner finds a key that gives access to the waters of eternal youth or something and turns him into an evil dude with fighting skills that would put Rambo to shame.It even gives him the dual guns he needs to take over the miner ship. And it even gives him the knowledge to find traces of water of eternal live in space and the route to the planet holding the waters. And it also gives him an army of ruthless obedient fighters. It even.. the list goes on and on. If the animation had been stylish. If the music had been tolerable and well placed.. If the characters had somehow be believable or endearing. If the plot had been better. If the adult content had not been so rubbed into your face. If.. If.. If. It was perhaps lucky that Kristl had fallen asleep. Her sleep was perhaps the best comment to this movie she could give. Yet there was something strange. The snoring sound.. He never knew Kristl to snore, nor had he ever heard Kristl snore.He turned to look at Kristl. The sound did not come from her side of the couch. He looked in to the screen of the computer that controlled the overhead beamer. He saw himself being reflected. He was sleeping.The snoring came from him.

Quite honestly, they should have just kept the budget for the magazine and stayed out of the movie business.In short, you only get one story with this one. The story line is badly developed and loaded with animation that would make Hanna Barbera beam with a new found sense of superiority.But, it has boobs, which is usually enough to draw the attention of any basement dwelling nerd type away from his D&D campaign.I will admit to getting some of my prepubescent kicks with this magazine, but when that novelty worn down I discovered that there was indeed a large cache of very well down comic artists. Some very unique material indeed. And sadly, with the first Heavy Metal movie, while they presented various stories and artists, it was apparent they were still under budget constraints.But I do contend that this recent movie was pretty much an insult to the Heavy Metal magazine name and the people whom have enjoyed it over the years.

I didn't actually watch this film in its entirety until now. During my many previous attempts, I would always fall asleep, or become distracted by something else. Finally, tonight, I was miraculously able to sit through the whole thing. After two decades have passed, how can you create a sequel worthy of the cult status garnered by the original; one that wouldn't completely disappoint fans? The answer from the creators of HM 2000 is apparently, "why bother?" Cheesy CGI is unevenly exchanged, back and forth, with hand-drawn animation, making the flow and appearance of the film choppy. Scenes resembling 2D Disney animation suddenly, without warning, cut into 3D video-game-like graphics. Were the deadlines really harsh enough to justify this kind of Adobe software abuse? The voice actors were hopelessly emotionless and deadpan. Never have I heard less inflection in a character's delivery. It sounded like they'd never actually rehearsed the lines, and were reading them for the first time. If your friend was being electrocuted in front of you, would you speak to them like you were reading out of a textbook? Also, Taarna was a MUCH better (and hotter) heroine than Julie. She actually had depth, emotion, courage, character development, and heart. She is a martyr, and her conflicts have a meaningful purpose that can be both personal and universal. All Julie does is fight. Her personality lacks dimension.... you can't empathize with her because no softer, human side is presented to the viewer. And then there's the music. One of the great things about the original was how the songs blended into the scenes, and they played a good portion of each song. In HM 2000, you hear only short blips that don't particularly pertain to the visual action. Add juvenile humor, stereotypical movie clichés ("the key has never been found.... UNTIL NOW"), and you have a recipe for cinematic disaster. Save for the title, HM 2000 had absolutely NOTHING to do with the original. They have nerve marketing it under the same name. If you are currently suffering from insomnia, this is a must-own DVD.