Heavy Metal is a mind boggling, mind blowing animation extravaganza.

| Jul 27, 2022

A mixed bag of a movie.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 30, 2022

A cult film receives a sterling AV transfer from Sony, while its miscalculation of a sequel makes its high-def debut on home video.

| Apr 26, 2022

Heavy Metal didnt win any awards and the movie certainly isnt for everyone (neither is Heavy Metal 2000) but it has a certain charm that allows it to have a cult-like following.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 18, 2022

It's a movie full of the things teenaged boys love, including aliens, robots, and shapely naked ladies. (40th anniversary)

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 10, 2021

The film is a laudable attempt to present the world of cartoon movies to another type of audience. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Sep 10, 2019

Heavy Metal proposes a narrative that is not always intelligible, where the monotony conceals the imagination of the filmmakers. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Aug 22, 2019

It's definitely watchable for fans that appreciate the exploitative pulp nature of the magazine set to excellent rock music.

| Jan 13, 2016

Exemplifies the notion that the euphemism "adult material" almost exclusively denotes content which is chiefly of appeal to people other than adults.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Aug 5, 2014

In 1981, this may have been state-of-the-art animation, but now it looks rudimentary, clunky, and flat. The writing, likewise, is flat.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 30, 2012

Archly stunted and incalculably influential

| Feb 12, 2010

Initial segments have a boisterous blend of dynamic graphics, intriguing plot premises and sly wit that unfortunately slide gradually downhill.

| Mar 26, 2009

You have to conclude that its makers should have got out more.

| Mar 10, 2008

...An unabashed crowd-pleaser. Whenever possible, it goes for the fight scene, the sex joke, the jiggly breasts...

| Original Score: a | Sep 17, 2007

It's a mixed bag, but successful in a mindless, adolescent way.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 16, 2007

Some of the animation is first-rate, particularly in the more modest comedy segments, and even the heavy set pieces have greater flash and dazzle than anything Ralph Bakshi mustered around the same period.

| Apr 16, 2007

Fantasies that are gratuitously sexist and Fascist (macho whoring and warmongering), and whose roots reach all the way back to post-hippie paranoia, feed the tangled plot-lines of a movie that... should disappoint even the teenage wet-dreamers.

| Feb 9, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 26, 2005

Anyone from the era will love it, while everyone else simply won't get it at all.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 25, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 15, 2005