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It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

OK, I registered with IMDb solely to offer this critic and this is my very first review on IMDb, which and I must say I was inspired to write because of the few negative comments it has received. Normally, I would understand a few negative reviews about a TV show because we all have a different perspective in life and inevitably someone is just not going to like a particular series, but Metalocalypse deserves the highest of ratings! It is ground breaking and original and I was hooked from the very first traumatic viewing of this brutal kidney punch. Of the things that impress me most is Brendon Small's ability to go from the cute and cuddly (and hilarious) Home Movies to Metalocalypse without skipping a beat, pun intended, and pull off one of the most intense, morbid, creative and funny cartoons in Adult Swims' history. This show is for anybody who loves metal and for anybody who hates metal and everyone in-be-teen. The characters have been developed nicely with devotion to back story and that f*@king clown is a nose bleed! G-G-G-G-yaaahh! To the point of this review, if you do not like this show, you are either an up tight republican (see General Crozier) or an imagination invalid who takes themselves and or their music way to seriously. Come on folks, Death Metal is at it's base nihalistic and there is nothing funnier than the destrucion of reality (with the right twist). Dethklok is in all of us and if we can't laugh at ourselves then, well, we will just have to laugh at you! Grow a sense of humor. Love the show guys!! Lets see season 3.

I really did want this to be a good show. I really wanted some metal based hilarity coming thick and fast for half an hour slots but it just wasn't to be.I have been a metal fan for a good while now, more so a fan of the more extreme sub-genres i.e. Death and Black metal. I can safely say that I went in to watching this show with high hopes. I love extreme metal and I love comedy and I am more than willing to mix the two as I enjoy a good laugh about the things that mean a lot to me. So don't take this review as me slagging this off because I was upset and offended that they had dared to poke fun at my favourite genre of music.Metalocalypse is just not a good show. It's crude, it's dumb but it's just not funny.Perhaps I was hoping for a Spinal Tap-esquire spoof which would offer similar ridiculous but still plausible and laughable representations but instead I got predictable, dull and formulaic jokes that were pretty easy to digest but pretty boring to behold. This series runs out of steam very quickly as you realise that the only metal "jokes" are just countless metal stereotypes either being flipped on their head or shoved down your throat. Sure it would be silly to have a death metal band to shout out "RELEASE THE KITTIES" whilst live on stage but its not really anything new. If you ever have had a conversation about metal with anyone who knows about it you have probably come up which much funnier metal based anecdotes than that. And random attempts to incorporate actual band names into scenes just to get are laugh are just lame.And this I feel is what the underlining problem with the whole show is. It's not doing anything that a metal fan couldn't think of by themselves. And I personally feel that it's only popular because its the only comedy based on this premise out there right now, I mean lets face it its not hard to be best metal based comedy show when you are the only one. This is a show that is dull at it's best and awful at it's worst.For a show that centres itself around death metal, a genre I find to have a great sense of humour about itself and the world in general I just don't understand how and why this show went so wrong. It's just uninspired shite to be honest.

We first meet Dethklok, the world's most famous death metal band, at a concert that will go down in history as a milestone for the genre. In the far North of Scandinavia, inside the Arctic circle, thousands of black clad, long haired fans of all things loud, fast and aggressive gather in expectation, when a vast stage is airlifted into view by a helicopter and released to plummet from the sky. Hundreds of people are crushed and killed instantly and when the sides of the stage open up, even more are flattened. But then the band themselves appear and a colossal roar goes up among the survivors. The quintet play a fast and brutal coffee jingle that lasts less than two minutes, then just as soon as it started, it's all over. The band depart and the fans trudge back to their everyday lives, leaving the mangled corpses of several hundred dead lying in the snow. Thank god they signed wavers before the show. Welcome to Metalocalypse.From here, the rest of the series follows the continuing adventures of the five band members, vocalist Nathan Explosion, bass player William Murderface, guitarists Toki Wartooth and Skwisgarr, and drummer Pickles, the soul of the band. However, having become so successful they're now the world's 12th largest economy, they have more than the average amount of worries that a metal band has to put up with; including psychotic fans, thoroughly un-metal parents, Government agencies out to destroy them and even accidentally summoning an ancient Finnish troll in the middle of a gig.Like Spinal Tap turned into a cartoon death metal act with the violence and gore amped up to eleven, Metalocalypse is an absolute joy for anyone with a passing interest in the genre, provided you have a sense of humour. Creator Brendan Smalls is clearly a massive fan and his lovingly crafted show simultaneously celebrates and lampoons it, taking in every element from corporate endorsements to the excessively over the top enthusiasm and music, all of which he writes and plays himself. You can tell from the nods to current bands such as cameos from Metallica members, or restaurants named Fintrolls and Dimmu Burger.Best of all though, Smalls is quite happy to poke fun at the outrageous imagery associated with metal and takes it to the utmost extreme. Thus, Dethklok live in an isolated fortress shaped like a Viking longboat, ride a Murdercycle with four sidecars and have trouble going about their daily lives without inadvertently killing numerous people in excessively violent ways. By the time they decide to take a trip to the 'most metal place on Earth' to record an album and wind up in a submarine at the bottom of the Marianna trench, your mind should be made up.Okay, the animation isn't great and the lip synching is often quite poor, but given the obvious budget limitations this is still an incredibly enjoyable show. Anyone that's ever windmilled their hair overhead, stage dived at a Suffocation show or counted the days until the next Wacken festival will love it.

When I saw the very first episode of Metalocalypse, my mind was empty only for two words: brutal and metal. Metalocalypse is an animated TV show about world famous death metal band Deathlok, which has an ambition to be the most brutal band ever.The band includes five members: Toki Wartooth(guitar), William Murderface(bass), Skwisgaar Skwigelf(guitar), Pickles(drums) and Nathan Explosion (vokills). Each character is unique and blessed (or cursed) whit somewhat twisted personality.The show itself is about Deathlok's every day life which has to be (or seems to be) as brutal and metal as possible. Each, morbid/bizarre episode (20 made), contains an "adventure"(15 min.) of it's own, so the show doesn't have much of continuity. Personly I think that's not a bad thing.As a total metal maniac, I enjoy watching this show: the characters rule, the music rules, jokes rule and explicit violence and gore totally rules!!!I recommend this show to all head-bangers: it's going to be a cult classic.