Director: Gerald Potterton

Keywords: Musical, Sci-Fi, Action/Adventure, Rock and Roll

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Harvey Atkin	Actor	18-Dec-1942		Sgt. Coleman on Cagney and Lacey
Rodger Bumpass	Actor	1-Jan-1951		Voice of Squidward Tentacles
John Candy	Actor	31-Oct-1950	4-Mar-1994	Uncle Buck
Joe Flaherty	Comic	21-Jun-1941		SCTV
Doug Kenney	Comic	10-Dec-1946	27-Aug-1980	National Lampoon cofounder
Eugene Levy	Comic	17-Dec-1946		Earl Camembert from SCTV
Harold Ramis	Comic	21-Nov-1944		Egon Spengler in Ghostbusters
John Vernon	Actor	24-Feb-1932	1-Feb-2005	Dean Wormer in Animal House
Al Waxman	Actor	2-Mar-1935	18-Jan-2001	Lt. Samuels on Cagney and Lacey

REVIEWS

Review by Crazy Quagga (posted on 10-Feb-2005)

Heavy Metal is one of the classic underground cult films, and one of the most popular in Columbia/TriStar's video collection. Heavy Metal is a grown-up version of Saturday morning-style cartoons-- complete with gratuitous nudity and drug content. The movie (based on the comic book series of the same name) centers around the Loc-Nor, a green-glowing ball of pure evil that tells of its spread of misery. Each story is told as a segment, and each segment has a different animation style and content. Although obstesibly "sci-fi", the movie successfully blends humor, drama, and fantasy in an entertaining way.

The plot is a bit incoherent in places, juvenile in others, and always a bit over the top. This may be why many consider it to be a "stoner" film, a reputation which it probably does deserve.

Although somewhat "primitive" by today's standards of CGI animation, the campy concept, style, and classic rock soundtrack give Heavy Metal a great deal of charm. However, the recent sequal, Heavy Metal 2000, is considerably less inspired.

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