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

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

| Mar 26, 2009

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

Heavy Metal has been animated with great verve, and scored very well, with music much less ear-splitting than the title would suggest.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 30, 2004

Regardless of its dated stylishness (which still holds up remarkably well a decade plus later), Heavy Metal was a pioneering film in 1981 and remains a pivitol and infuential body of art today.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

A genuinely outrageous and occasionally brilliant coupling of American animation and classic early-Eighties heavy metal.

| Jan 1, 2000

Asked if I wanted to see it again, I figured, why not? I would have remembered if it was really bad. But memory does play tricks.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000