Heavy Metal 2000

Rating:
Summary: Absolutely CRAZY!
Review: Last night I went out and rented this so me and my friend could watch it, along with the classic original. It has a great storyline and all, but the music [was bad](except Billy Idol's song, played during the credits), and the computer animation gave it an artificial feel. Good movie, but maybe the animation was TOO good. I think they should have made it look more like the original. Those were the reasons why I gave it 3 stars. My friend seemed to like this more than the original. Good movie, but see the original for a better show.

Rating:
Summary: A vain attempt.
Review: Like my title suggests this movie is a vain attempt to take credit from the first movie to sell sub-par music to a new generation of viewers. The first Heavy Metal obviously had some thought put into the scenes and the pace of the story line. The artistry was phenomanal in the first movie, much better than the mish mosh of computer graphics and hand drawn animation in Heavy Metal 2000. The first movie made sure the music reinforced and enhanced whatever scene was being played, the second, well the music really did not add much if anything at all the movie. To sum up...boring plot, no imagination, and a sound track to not die for. My advice? Use the DVD as a coaster and read a good Frank Herbert novel instead.

Rating:
Summary: A vain attempt.
Review: Like my title suggests this movie is a vain attempt to take credit from the first movie to sell sub-par music to a new generation of viewers. The first Heavy Metal obviously had some thought put into the scenes and the pace of the story line. The artistry was phenomanal in the first movie, much better than the mish mosh of computer graphics and hand drawn animation in Heavy Metal 2000. The first movie made sure the music reinforced and enhanced whatever scene was being played, the second, well the music really did not add much if anything at all the movie. To sum up...boring plot, no imagination, and a sound track to not die for. My advice? Use the DVD as a coaster and read a good Frank Herbert novel instead.

Rating:
Summary: Saturday morning cartoon at best
Review: Oh, boy, were we disappointed! We've waited for several years for this episode. And for our patience what is our reward? Junk. The story is childish. The art is boring after the first 10 minutes. The soundtrack detracts (if that's possible). I have been an enthusiastic and loyal fan/subscriber/collector of Heavy Metal magazine since 1977 and to be honest, I can't imagine this horrible movie coming from the same shop. T&A are the only redeeming bits that keep this space clunker from losing all it's stars. If you want to experience some of HM's finest work, rent the original HM movie on DVD.

Rating:
Summary: Horrible
Review: Ok so why did Kevin Eastman destroy the Heavy Metal Magazine and culture. He had so much to work with but instead decided to go the opposite of the originators. Classic stories such as The Ape and Den are no more and instead we are left with a low quality B movie comic strip. The new movie Heavy Metal F.A.K.K 2 is a complete joke. Instead of making a high quality A move he went back a step and created a low quality B movie that fits more into the category of higher end porn. I have nothing wrong with pornography. Whatever works for people is fine with me. But Heavy Metal was never meant to be porn. It was meant to have erotic images and stories but decent stories, not stories that revolve around some second rate actresses buxom. Ever since Eastman bought Heavy Metal in '95 he has brought into a constant downward spiral. Pretty soon the magazine will be so bad i will be ashamed just to buy for colorful toilet paper. What it really needs right now are the classic artists and writers that made it great to begin with to speak out and admit that it is no where as good as it was. Now it should be just labled as porn instead of fantasy. I miss the old days of Heavy Metal. We need a real Heavy Metal magazine again. One without Eastman in charge. One with decent stories. One with the class and high quality writing that the originals (70's and 80's) had. The magazine still has a lot of potential if we can get a decent lead editor in charge of it.

Rating:
Summary: Julie Strain is ...
Review: The animation is OK and some of the songs are quite Good. The voices are good, I really enjoyed to hear billy idol and Tyler (don't remember the name of the actor). The storyline could have been better ... there's to much "cliché" in this movie. But what I really hated here is the way they promote Julie Strain (the real one). You see pictures of here when the heroes are in a city, all the extra are oriented to tell us "how julie strain is fantastic", ... and she lack of modesty. It's quite bad when the story & spirit of HM is put behind only to put in front a person from reality. Gave 3 stars anyway for animation, music and design (Since english is not my main language, sorry if it's not easy to read).

Rating:
Summary: A Waste of Time
Review: The appeal of the original was that it was an animated version of the magazine. The appeal of the origial magazine was the mixture of styles, and the effortless "bad boy" attitude it exuded as a whole. As to the meandering plot? That was part of the appeal. If you didn't like one approach, there were at least three or more others that would turn you on! Heavy Metal 2000 misses the point entirely. It was flat, boring and felt like "Walt Disney Gets a Woody". I mean, it even had the same visual style of "Beauty and the Beast". The effortless adolescent raunch of #1 was replaced with the forced, "Aren't we bad? tee-hee!"
And get a load of the hero, a whiny genXer that the original Den would have snapped in two. He wasn't cool, he was a pain! The heroine just kept missing the mark. The whole thing was kid stuff!
Don't waste your money, rent the second one and buy the first one and prepare to leave your brain at home!

Rating:
Summary: I prefer this to the first
Review: The first Heavy Metal was in my opinion a waste of time. They had six stories that were connected only by a strange green orb and other than that had nothing to do with each other besides sex and gore (which for some is a good thing). Heavy metal F.A.K.K. 2 (or HEavy MEatal 2000) however is in my opinion the better film. For one thing they focus on one story this time. The story is about a young women who is out for revenge after an insane captain attacks her planet so he can find the secret to immortality. He capturtes the people and kills those who defy him, or just some for the hell of it. SHe seeks out to stop him and eventually tehy battle on the planet where the secret is held.

BEcause of the further focus on story that means that the sex and gore had to be toned down some. Not to the extent that it would drive people away but just enough to tell a good story. However in the end it just doesn't live up. In the end it would be for fans only.

Rating:
Summary: I prefer this to the first
Review: The first Heavy Metal was in my opinion a waste of time. They had six stories that were connected only by a strange green orb and other than that had nothing to do with each other besides sex and gore (which for some is a good thing). Heavy metal F.A.K.K. 2 (or HEavy MEatal 2000) however is in my opinion the better film. For one thing they focus on one story this time. The story is about a young women who is out for revenge after an insane captain attacks her planet so he can find the secret to immortality. He capturtes the people and kills those who defy him, or just some for the hell of it. SHe seeks out to stop him and eventually tehy battle on the planet where the secret is held.

BEcause of the further focus on story that means that the sex and gore had to be toned down some. Not to the extent that it would drive people away but just enough to tell a good story. However in the end it just doesn't live up. In the end it would be for fans only.

Rating:
Summary: Good movie with very respectable production quality
Review: The first installment of Heavy Metal was far superior to this movie, but Heavy Metal 2000 is a very respectable effort. True, the storyline is similar (there's even a part that is a direct copy of the Taarna battle suit dressing sequence) to past plotlines in movies of this genre of films, but the story and action is enough to keep and hold your interest.

The video graphics in this movie are incredible, a seamless blend of cgi and traditional animation. The sound quality is excellent. I am not a heavy metal music fan of any sort, but the music in this movie is great.

If you're the type that likes women whose bodies defy gravity, this movie has it, the women are incredible. There is nudity spread thoroughout, but the sex is not graphic in nature. This film is extremely a parental discretion advised, I strongly recommend it for the 18+ crowd. The violence on the other hand is very graphic, even more so than the first Heavy Metal movie.

I've read the other reviews so I'll not repeat the plotline for this movie. I recommend this movie to those who enjoy a "different" kind of movie. This is an adult animated comic book well worth viewing if you enjoy the Heavy Metal magazine offerings.

I have the DVD version and highly recommend this movie (or any movie for that matter) in this format for the extras as well as the superb video and audio quality.